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Millions of American families from every race, creed, and economic background are losing hope as the United States continues slide deeper into fiscal insanity and moral decay. Where will America stand when we lose our traditional values, border security, and limited government?Having gained insight from industry experts in farming, energy, infrastructure, and finance, author Douglas MacKinnon has outlined one alternative to our existing government in an entirely constitutional and legal approach—secession from the United States of America.President Abraham Lincoln once said, "This country, wit

NPS NRP Executive Summary ; Project Summary: The U.S. Marine Corps prides itself on the ability to successfully operate within a dynamic environment in an expedient and expeditious manner. To achieve power projection requirements, high states of aircraft, vessel, equipment, and personnel readiness are to be preserved. No small accomplishment, this burden lies heavily on supply professionals and the agility of the supply network in support of operating forces. Supply Chain Management (SCM) must cultivate dynamic supply chains, fluid as the maneuver units they support. Though military action is reactive at times, proactive preparations foster an ability to increase momentum and gain the initiative. SCM should also adopt a proactive mindset, forecasting readiness requirements through critical and balanced consideration. The purpose of this quantitative research is to assess the supply chain network of a deployed Multi- Mission Vertical and/or Short Takeoff and Landing (MV-22) Osprey squadron, discover inefficiencies that exist, and make recommendations to increase supply chain productivity. Specifically, this study takes advantage of Microsoft Excel and Big Data (BD) techniques to sort through structured and unstructured data. Collaboration with the Department of the Navy (DoN) for requirements and attaining data sets will permit the application of Excel and Lexical Link Analysis (LLArelationships between given data sets. Extraction of variables such as response times and aircraft part), a text-mining software, to deriveavailability will measure SCM strengths and draw attention to deficiencies. Interpreted relationships helps determine opportunities, shortfalls, and favorable and unfavorable conditions within the organizational and intermediate maintenance levels of the Osprey supply chain. The results observed will be the basis forsupply chain improvement recommendations and assist with enhancing DoN SCM productivity. ; Research POC Name: CAPT Eric ; NPS-18-N026-B ; Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited.

AbstractWith the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, independence came to the Baltic republics. The focus of this case study is on Ainars Kadish and his entrepreneurial efforts in bringing an abandoned greenhouse operation back to a productive and profitable state. Also discussed are the post‐Soviet environment and the privatization process as carried out in Latvia. The case provides financial information to explore Ainars' alternatives: should he continue producing at the current facility or build a new greenhouse complex?

Tenth Annual Acquisition Research Symposium Acquisition Management ; Excerpt from the Proceedings of the Tenth Annual Acquisition Research Symposium Acquisition Management ; Disclaimer: The views represented in this report are those of the authors and do not reflect the official policy position of the Navy, the Department of Defense, or the federal government. ; Naval Postgraduate School Acquisition Research Program ; Prepared for the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA ; Naval Postgraduate School Acquisition Research Program ; Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited.

Disclaimer: The views represented in this report are those of the authors and do not reflect the official policy position of the Navy, the Department of Defense, or the federal government. ; Excerpt from the Proceedings of the Tenth Annual Acquisition Research Symposium Logistics Management ; The research presented in this report was supported by the Acquisition Research Program of the Graduate School of Business & Public Policy at the Naval Postgraduate School. To request defense acquisition research, to become a research sponsor, or to print additional copies of reports, please contact any of the staff listed on the Acquisition Research Program website (www.acquisitionresearch.net). ; Prepared for the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA 93943. ; Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited.

In the wake of the Haiti earthquake disaster, civil and military organizations engaged in vigorous relief operations to achieve rapid deployment of logistics, transport, security and medical supplies. Organizations involved in the operation collaborated with the expectation of effectiveness. To know that operations were effective - or understanding how to improve their effectiveness -- would require sifting through large volumes of communicatin to understand how verious oganizations collaborated and to improve future operations. in this paper, we will report how to leverage "Lexical Link Analysis" (LLA), as one means to achieve "System self-awareness" (SSA), and develop this as a durable methodology. We consider that the cognitive interface between decision makers and a complex system, (e.g., the organizational behaviors in an interagency operation) may be exprressed rhrough lexical link features embadded in documents and communications. The LLA method is composed of lexical analysis and link analysis. Lexical analysis is a form of link mining in which word pairs are extracted from document sets. Link analysis is a network analysis that explores key relationships among objects. We will report how to combine both the LLA and SSA methods to sift through real-life, open-source data, applied in this example to Haiti relief operations.

15th ICCRTS, International Command and Control, Research and Technology Symposium, Santa Monica, California, June 22-24, 2010 ; Maritime security is vital to US security. Enhanced Maritime Domain Awareness (MDA) of potential threats in this dynamic environment can be achieved, yet requires integrated analysis from numerous sources in real time. We will present a learning agent technology that integrates structured and unstructured data and discovers behavior patterns from varied sources such as: Automatic Information Systems (AIS), Coast Guard, and police contextual information including: maritime commercial activities, weather, terrain, environmental conditions, maritime incidents, casualties, and military exercises. These discovered patterns can help correlate warnings and reduce false alarms in support of maritime security. We will show our test results from the Trident Warrior (TW08) exercise.

NPS NRP Executive Summary ; The military's identification of an information environment that is somehow separate from the traditional operational environment has created organization, theoretical, and philosophical schisms in how we think about military operations. This divide has resulted in recognized gaps and overlaps in how the military plans and executes operations; basically, although still highly effective, the military is recognizing that they are becoming highly inefficient in blending information (non-kinetic) options with traditional (kinetic) options. This research is designed to help identify the gaps and overlaps in planning and employment of non-kinetic and kinetic approaches to reaching operational objectives. The intent is to independently analyze behavioral objectives based on mission sets and the means by which they may be achieved. The use of kinetic weapons and projectiles is well understood among military planners, therefore this means-analysis will focus on the extensive number of options available that function via the phenomenon of information (i.e., non-kinetic delivery.). The results will be a matrix of options for matching means-to-objectives that will help inform operational planners in developing effective and efficient allocation of resources. ; Naval Information Warfare Center Pacific (NIWC Pacific) ; ASN(RDA) - Research, Development, and Acquisition ; This research is supported by funding from the Naval Postgraduate School, Naval Research Program (PE 0605853N/2098). https://nps.edu/nrp ; Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) ; Approved for public release. Distribution is unlimited.

C. International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering, and Knowledge Management (IC3K), Madeira, Portugal, 6-8 October, 2009. ; Decades of reform have been largely ineffective at improving the efficiency of the DoD Acquisition System, due in part to the complex processes and stovepipe activities that result in duplication of effort, lack of re-use and limited collaboration on related development efforts. This research applies Knowledge Management (KM) concepts and methodologies to the DoD acquisition enterprise to increase "Program Self Awareness" (Gallup and MacKinnon, 2008). This research supports the implementation of reform initiatives such as Capability Portfolio Management and Open Systems Architecture which share the common objectives of reducing duplication of effort, promoting collaboration and re-use of components. The DoD Maritime Domain Awareness (MDA) Program will be used as a test case to develop prototype data schemas and apply text and data mining tools to identify duplication and/or gaps in the features of select MDA technologies. This paper will also provide the foundation for future development of the System Self-awareness concept and KM tools to support decision making and collaboration in diversified commercial and military applications.