The period from 1808 to 1829, largely neglected by those historians who have looked at the Hydrographic Office, was the crucial formative period for expansion that laid the solid foundations which later Hydrographers could then exploit. The context, achievements and failures of the Admiralty’s hydrographic function, including surveying, chart production, supply, sales and its contribution to the Navy and the scientific world, as an all encompassing beast has been overlooked; the Admiralty placed the responsibility for those tasks on the shoulders of its Hydrographer. Subsequently he determined the success or failure of the office, using his initiative to expand and develop opportunities benefiting the Admiralty, as well as managing a valuable resource of geographical intelligence, fostering links with scientists and the international hydrographic community. The Hydrographer also found himself creating his own policies, serving as Secretary to the Board of Longitude, being a consultant on navigational matters, taking responsibility for the acquisition, supply and maintenance of chronometers for the Navy, as well as being a focal point for issues concerning pay, promotion and manning for surveying specialists. The period from 1808 to 1829 saw many changes, which gave rise to numerous opportunities for expansion. The Admiralty Board and William, Duke of Clarence (as the last Lord High Admiral), both had a direct influence in the way the office expanded, which saw innovation and experimental work become part of the Hydrographer’s routine, especially after the Peace of 1815. But expansion required funding and at a time when internal economy appeared to the be the main objective within the Admiralty, Captain Thomas Hurd managed not only to establish a 100% increase in surveying capacity but laid the foundation for a distinct specialist and professional core of survey officers. His successor, Captain William Parry, despite his absences, overhauled working practices in the office, set standards for surveyors to follow and continued to expand the number of survey ships in commission. Subsequently Captain Francis Beaufort was left the most highly efficient hydrographic office since its foundation in 1795.

The goal of this project was to determine how to decrease the F414 engine throughput time at the Aircraft intermediate Maintenance Division (AIMD) at Naval Air Station (NAS) Lemoore, California. To achieve this goal, organizational modeling was employed to evaluate how changes to the organizational structure of the Lemoore AIMD affected engine throughput time. Data collected to build the organizational model was acquired via interviews with AIMD personnel. A baseline model of the AIMD organization was developed for the purpose of modeling the organization[alpha]s current structure and performance. The actual, real-world, duration required to conduct F414 maintenance was compared to the duration predicted by the model and determined to be within 3%. Once confidence was gained that the baseline model accurately depicted the organization[alpha]s actual F414 maintenance performance, modifications or interventions to the model were made to evaluate how organizational changes would affect F414 maintenance duration. Interventions included paralleling the tasks associated with accomplishing administrative paperwork when initially receiving the F414 engine, and tasks associated with on-engine maintenance, combining personnel positions, adding personnel, and modifying the duration and frequency of meetings. The modeled results of these modifications indicated that the paralleling effort significantly decreased the F414 maintenance duration; likewise, decreasing meeting frequency and slightly increasing duration also facilitated a decreased duration.

Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited / The purpose of the Littoral Combat Ship is to provide the Navy with an affordable, small, multi-mission ship capable of independent, interdependent and integrated operations inside the littorals. The Littoral Combat Ship will be designed to replace high-value Naval assets when conducting high-end missions such as littoral Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW), Mine Warfare (MIW) and Anti-Surface Warfare (ASuW) as well as perform low-end missions such as Humanitarian Assistance (HA), Non-combatant Evacuation Operations (NEO) and Maritime Intercept Operations (MIO). In order to accomplish these missions and successfully counter the enemy's littoral denial strategy, the Navy has stated the Littoral Combat Ship must incorporate endurance, speed, payload capacity, sea-keeping, shallow-draft and mission reconfigurability into a small ship design. However, constraints in current ship design technology make this desired combination of design characteristics in small ships difficult to realize at any cost. This thesis (1) analyzes the relationship between speed, endurance, and payload to determine the expected displacement of the Littoral Combat Ship, (2) determines the impact of speed, displacement and significant wave height on Littoral Combat Ship fuel consumption and endurance, and (3) analyzes the implication of findings on Littoral Combat Ship logistics. / Lieutenant Commander, Supply Corps, United States Naval Reserve

There is concern that the current approach to the peacetime medical mission of Navy Medicine does not adequately address the need to provide its personnel with the skill sets necessary for the surgically intensive environment associated with the wartime mission. Navy Medicine has shifted its focus on the delivery of health care over the last decade from treatment and intervention to prevention, health promotion and population health initiatives. This focus makes good business and clinical sense from the managed care and population health perspective. This thesis examined Navy Medicine's inpatient and outpatient surgical workload and military staffing to determine the level of support it provides for the readiness mission. A trend analysis was performed using workload data from the Medical Expense and Performance Reporting System between fiscal year 1999 and 2002. This analysis shows that there has been an overall decrease in the amount of inpatient surgical workload for all surgical specialties. However, not all surgical specialties have observed an increase in outpatient workload over this same time period. Additionally, an examination and trending of end strength data for the Medical Corps and Nurse Corps using primary subspecialty codes was performed for fiscal years 1990 through 2002. The results indicated that while there have been few changes in overall end strength over the last decade, changes in specialties have occurred consistent with an emphasis on a medical model that focuses on outpatient primary care. The evidence suggests an emerging gap between the dual missions of Navy Medicine that warrants further investigation as to its potential impact on medical readiness. / US Navy (USN) author.

<p> In the aspect of electric-ship grounding, the time-domain behavior of the ship hull is needed. The grounding scheme impacts the nature of voltage transients during switching events and faults, identifiability and locatability of ground faults, fault current levels, and power quality. Due to the large size of ships compared with the wavelengths of the desired signals, time-domain measurement or simulation is a time-consuming process. Therefore, it is preferred that the behavior be studied in the frequency-domain. In the frequency-domain one can break down the whole ship hull into small blocks and find the frequency behavior of each block (scattering parameters) in a short time and then con- nect these blocks and find the whole ship hull scattering parameters. Then these scattering parameters should be transferred to the time-domain. The problem with this process is that the measured frequency-domain data (or the simulated data) is band-limited so, while calculating time-domain solutions, due to missing DC and low frequency content the time-domain response encounters causality, passivity and time-delay problems. Despite availability of several software and simulation packets that convert frequency-domain information to time-domain, all are known to suffer from the above mentioned problems. This dissertation provides a solution for computing the Time-Domain Impulse-Response for a system by using its measured or simulated scattering parameters. In this regard, a novel wavelet computational approach is introduced.</p>

implementação da indústria naval para a organização do trabalho em Rio Grande. Para tal, propõe-se a categoria organização do trabalho definida a partir dos elementos fundamentais da teoria marxista, permitindo uma análise alternativa às formulações burguesas de crescimento econômico e progresso. Aqui a organização do trabalho ultrapassa os muros da indústria, invade e organiza a vida dos trabalhadores e da comunidade local, estabelecendo uma forma negativa de produzí-la. Analisando as falas dos diferentes sujeitos inseridos na cidade (governo, trabalhadores, sindicalistas, líderes comunitários, etc.), após estudo do processo histórico que favoreceu a implementação da indústria naval em Rio Grande, foi possível concluir que os esforços do governo local em garantir o crescimento econômico e manter os níveis de emprego, com o ocaso da indústria naval provocado pelas denúncias e investigações da Operação Lava Jato e a desvalorização das commodities no mercado internacional, reforçam e ampliam a secular dependência latino-americana em relação aos países capitalistas avançados. Os trabalhadores, submetidos à superexploração do trabalho e à degradação de suas condições de trabalho são colocados no mesmo patamar das máquinas, no qual sua subjetividade é cada vez mais eliminada do processo de trabalho e seu trabalho transformado em abstração, têm sua vida negada. As lutas da classe trabalhadora, que poderiam interromper este processo, restringem-se àquilo que a organização do trabalho lhes possibilita lutar, buscando a liberdade sob a forma de mais servidão. O convívio entre trabalhadores migrantes e população local é marcado por desconforto e intolerância, em uma relação onde ambos se reconhecem como membros de formas parciais do gênero humano, não como totalidade deste. A organização do trabalho reorganiza a vida social de modo a favorecer o processo de acumulação do capital, estabelecendo uma forma negativa de produção da vida. / This dissertation consists of an exploratory study that seeks to understand the consequences of the implementation of the shipbuilding industry for the organization of work in Rio Grande. To this end, we propose the organization of work category defined from the fundamental elements of Marxist theory, allowing an alternative analysis to bourgeois formulations of economic growth and progress. Here the organization of work exceeds industry walls, invades and organizes the lives of workers and the local community, establishing a negative way to produce it. Analyzing the speeches of different subjects inserted in the city (government, workers, trade unionists, community leaders, etc.), after study of the historical process which favored the implementation of the shipbuilding industry in Rio Grande, it was concluded that local government's efforts to ensure economic growth and maintain employment levels, with the decline of the shipbuilding industry caused by complaints and investigations of Operation Lava Jato and the depreciation of commodities in the international market, reinforce and extend the secular Latin American dependence on the advanced capitalist countries. Workers submitted to overexploitation of labor and the deterioration of their working conditions are placed on the same level of the machines, in which subjectivity is increasingly removed from the work process and their work transformed into abstraction, have denied their life. The struggles of the working class, which could interrupt this process are restricted to what the work organization enables them to fight, seeking freedom in the form of more bondage. The interaction between migrants and locals workers is marked by discomfort and intolerance in a relationship where both are recognized as members of partial forms of the human race, not like all this. The organization of work rearranges social life in order to favor the capital accumulation process, establishing a negative production of life.

Thesis (B.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering, 1917. / by Tai Ming Wu, Chi Foo Yeh, Hin Yung Tu. / B.S.

Thesis (Nav.E)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering, 1964. / Includes bibliographical references (leaf 73). / by Elcio de Sá Freitas. / Nav.E

Thesis (M.S.) Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering, 1957. / Bibliography: leaf 21. / by Charles J. Henry. / M.S.

Thesis (Nav.E.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering, 1959. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 76-79). / by John F. Pearson, Jr. and Robert B. Sims. / Nav.E.