Thesis (Ed. D.)--Indiana University of Pennsylvania. / Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--George Mason University, 2007. / Title from PDF t.p. (viewed Jan. 22, 2008). Thesis director: Stephen J. Zaccaro. Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Psychology. Vita: p. 118-119. Includes bibliographical references (p. 109-117). Also available in print.

As the military has to react and respond to cyber attacks, they also are having to develop a way to apply cyber operations to the command and control hierarchy already in use. This thesis studies the requirements for a cyber command and control (C3) and conducts an experiment to test whether a C3 approach to red teaming helps users find more vulnerabilities. Since red teaming is similar in setting to the cyber operations setting, if the team finds that a C3 helps team members find more vulnerabilities, then a C3 environment can help the military better respond to cyber attacks. As a result of the experiment, the control team and the team using the C3 tied. However, participants surveyed indicated that using a C3 environment was more helpful than not using the C3 environment.

The world of operational police command is a challenging and complex one, where significant command decisions need to be made amid uncertainty and within narrowing time-frames. The consequences attached to these decisions can often be far reaching and have been in some cases grave, as in the case of disasters such as those at Bradford and Hillsborough football stadia. Accordingly, there is a pressing need to instil within key command officers, the skills and the experience necessary to make these bold and effective command decisions, but within an environment where such dire Consequences (as those that follow a disaster) do not arise from mistakes or inadequacy. The question then becomes how to create such an environment which is at the same time both safe and sufficiently realistic to provoke similar decisional reactions to those that would occur at a real event. Even if this was achievable a further stage would be necessary in which such learning came to be transferred back into an operational command situation. This thesis explores in a systemic way the design, implementation, testing, modification and re-testing of a critical incident management command simulator whose central tenet was to create an immersive simulation that, by virtue of its high degree of fidelity, was capable of engendering experience of the management of critical incidents for a target population comprising senior police command officers. From tentative beginnings to its operational installation as a fully functional command training simulator, this thesis maps out the key development decisions which were informed by the findings of a series of trials, observations, interviews, surveys and physiological measurements. At the same time, it describes the theoretical models used to explain the relationships between and functionality of the system and its individual components, whilst exploring the dimension of human computer interaction. This is action research in that the findings it generated led to an incremental series of modifications to what became an operational training simulator (named MINERVA) on which useful and transferable command training actually took place.

Thesis (M.S. in Defense Analysis)--Naval Postgraduate School, December 2007. / Thesis Advisor(s): Gustaitis, Peter J. "December 2007." Description based on title screen as viewed on January 18, 2008. Includes bibliographical references (p. 67-70). Also available in print.

Thesis (M.S. in Defense Analysis)--Naval Postgraduate School, December 2007. / Thesis Advisor(s): Gustaitis, Peter J. "December 2007." Title from title page of PDF document (viewed Apr 29, 2008). Includes bibliographical references (p. 67-70).

Thesis (M.S. in Information Technology Management)--Naval Postgraduate School, June 2008. Thesis (M.S. in Systems Technology (Command, Control, and Communications (C3)))--Naval Postgraduate School, June 2008. / Thesis Advisor(s): MacKinnon, Douglas. "June 2008." Description based on title screen as viewed on August 25, 2008. M.S. in Information Technology Management awarded to Joseph J. Sundland, June 2008. M.S. in Systems Technology (Command, Control, and Communications (C3)) awarded to Christopher J. Carroll, June 2008. Includes bibliographical references (p. 93-96). Also available in print.

Thesis (M.S. in Defense Analysis)--Naval Postgraduate School, December 2008. / Thesis Advisor(s): Borer, Douglas ; Lober, George. "December 2008." Description based on title screen as viewed on January 30, 2009. Includes bibliographical references (p. 77-82). Also available in print.

Thesis (M.S. in Management)--Naval Postgraduate School, June 2009. / Thesis Advisor(s): Eberling, Glenn. Second Reader: McCaffery, Jerry L. "June 1990." Description based on title screen as viewed on 19 October 2009. DTIC Identifier(s): management, internal control system, audits, command evaluation program, economy and efficiency reviews, theses, comptrollers, accounting. Author(s) subject terms: Internal control; internal control system; audits; reviews; command evaluation program, economy & efficiency reviews; inspection and investigative agencies. Includes bibliographical references (p. 85-87). Also available online.

Thesis (M.S. in Systems Technology) Naval Postgraduate School, June 1997. / Thesis advisors, Donald v.Z. Wadsworth, John H. Gibson. Includes bibliographical references (p. 89-90). Also available online.