A key technical issue for future Air Force systems is to improve their ability to survive. Use of stealth technology is proposed by many to be the major element in…

Provides evidence for the decline of some pollinator species in North America, including America’s most important managed pollinator, the honeybee, as well as some butterflies, bats, and hummingbirds. This book…

The report reviews NASA’s solid-earth science strategy, placing particular emphasis on observational strategies for measuring surface deformation, high-resolution topography, surface properties, and the variability of the earthaEURO ™s magnetic and…

The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) provides geospatial intelligence (GEOINT) to support national security, both as a national intelligence and a combat support agency. In the post-9/11 world, the need for…

Explores and evaluates the development, multiple applications, and usefulness of four-dimensional (space and time) model assimilations of data in the atmospheric and oceanographic sciences, and projects their applicability to the…

Naval Analytical Capabilities assesses current Department of Defense initiatives and the Department of the Navy’s progress in transitioning from a requirements-based to a capabilities-based organization. The report also provides recommendations…

Carbon monoxide (CO) is a toxic air pollutant produced largely from vehicle emissions. Breathing CO at high concentrations leads to reduced oxygen transport by hemoglobin, which has health effects that…

Extensively modified over the last century and a half, California’s San Francisco Bay Delta Estuary remains biologically diverse and functions as a central element in California’s water supply system. Uncertainties…