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Applying Lean To The F-15 Maintenance Process For The Royal Saudi Air Force, Mohammad Alamri
Applying Lean To The F-15 Maintenance Process For The Royal Saudi Air Force, Mohammad Alamri
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The thesis was about applying lean to the F-15 maintenance process in Royal Saudi Air Force. The researcher collected the data by using several questionnaires. Researcher used external lean expert recommendation to avoid bias, the F-15 maintenance process improved theoretically.
Secure Ads-B: Towards Airborne Communications Security In The Federal Aviation Administration's Next Generation Air Transportation System, Richard C. Agbeyibor
Secure Ads-B: Towards Airborne Communications Security In The Federal Aviation Administration's Next Generation Air Transportation System, Richard C. Agbeyibor
Theses and Dissertations
The U.S. Congress has mandated that all aircraft operating within the National Airspace System, military or civilian, be equipped with ADS-B transponders by the year 2020. The ADS-B aircraft tracking system, part of the Federal Aviation Administration's NextGen overhaul of the Air Transportation System, replaces Radar-based surveillance with a more accurate satellite-based surveillance system. However, the unencrypted nature of ADS-B communication poses an operational security risk to military and law enforcement aircraft conducting sensitive missions. The non-standard format of its message and the legacy communication channels used by its transponders make the ADS-B system unsuitable for traditional encryption mechanisms. FPE, …