Research for Diagrams

This paper investigates the dynamic nature of the Navy's Research and Development (R&D) budget by examining the Navy's budget in the aggregate and by functional activity (i.e., manpower, operation and maintenance, procurement, and research and development). Qualitative conclusions about trends in each functional area are made using constant-dollar plots for the period 1955-88. The percentage of the aggregate Department of the Navy (DON) budget that is allotted to R&D has been remarkably consistent at 10 percent over the last 30 years. A forecast for the R&D budget percentage is made for the next 5 years using statistical techniques. Thus, independent forecasts of the aggregate DON budget can be used to generate alternative R&D budget forecasts.

This paper briefly presents Korean war casualties fitted to causation factor relationships.

This paper considers the problem of optimizing the benefits to be realized from allocating resources in a stochastic flow process. The Naval resupply system is viewed as consisting of several processes, from the requisitioning, to the processing, to the transportation of spare parts. The time necessary for completion of any of the processes by any of the assumed homogeneous items is a random variable described by a distribution function whose parameters are functions of the budget at which each process is supported. Having delineated alternative budget levels and associated parameter improvements at each stage, the problem is to allocate a fixed budget so that the probability of completion for any item over the whole flow system before a given deadline is maximized. The solution to this problem is presented with specific reference to the Naval resupply system.

This paper presents the U.N. states' attitudes about and patterns of preference for managing the uses of the ocean (the 'seabed debates') applied in quantitative thematic content analysis.