PROJECTS

BRAC Workforce Modeling

Due to Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) actions, approximately 4,500 government positions and 15,000 contractor positions, concentrated in technical, logistical, and acquisition fields, will be moving to Huntsville Alabama over a five year period. Because of retirements,...

Ares I Probabilistic Design Analysis

Probabilistic design analysis (PDA) is a methodology to assess component reliability for given failure modes in complex systems. PDA involves the modeling of the probability of integrated system failures which then can be used to focus design improvements for improved...

Alternative Aggregate Combat Modeling

Unit-level combat models provide computational efficiency, with the result that they can simulate large scenarios in terms of geographic scope and size of military forces involved and are often able to execute much faster than real-time. However, existing unit-level combat...

Bowl Championship Series Rankings

The difficulty arises, of course, in selecting the two teams to play in the BCS Championship game. The BCS recognized that the media poll and the coaches' poll should be important components of the ranking system, but also recognized the emergence of computer rankings as...

Map Projections Minimizing Distance Errors

It is useful to have mathematical criteria for evaluating errors in map projections. The Chebyshev criterion for minimizing rms (root mean square) local scale factor errors for conformal maps has been useful in developing conformal map projections of continents. Any local...