Cyber Developmental Test and Evaluation Guidebook
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This guidebook provides technical information and critical best practices for ensuring Department of Defense (DoD) systems are survivable and operationally resilient in contested or hostile cyber environments. Aligned with the forthcoming DoD Manual 5000.UY, “Cyber Developmental Test and Evaluation,” it offers practical “how-to” guidance for planning, preparing, executing, evaluating, and reporting cyber developmental test and evaluation (DT&E) activities across the system life cycle from concept development through sustainment.
Cyber Operational Test and Evaluation Guidebook
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The Cyber Operational Test and Evaluation Guidebook amplifies the policies outlined in Department of Defense (DoD) Instruction (DoDI) 5000.98 and DoD Manual (DoDM) 5000.99 with key guidance for details and procedures. It outlines the necessary cyber testing to inform evaluations of operational effectiveness, suitability, and survivability of systems under test (SUTs) and underscores the importance of operational test and evaluation (OT&E) in assessing a system’s survivability and its capacity to prevent, mitigate, recover from, and adapt to adverse cyber-events.
Cybersecurity Attacks: Red Team Strategies: A Practical Guide to Building a Penetration Testing Program Having Homefield Advantage
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This book will guide you through the stages of building a red team program, including strategies and homefield advantage opportunities to boost security. The book starts by guiding you through establishing, managing, and measuring a red team program, including effective ways for sharing results and findings to raise awareness. Gradually, you'll learn about progressive operations such as cryptocurrency mining, focused privacy testing, targeting telemetry, and even blue team tooling. Later, you'll discover knowledge graphs and how to build them, then become well-versed with basic to advanced techniques related to hunting for credentials, and learn to automate Microsoft Office and browsers to your advantage. Finally, you'll get to grips with protecting assets using decoys, auditing, and alerting with examples for major operating systems.
Director, Operational Test and Evaluation (DOT&E) Test and Evaluation Master Plan (TEMP) Guidebook
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DOT&E TEMP Guidebook 3.1 updates the Design of Experiments (DOE), Scientific Test and Analysis Techniques (STAT), Mission-focused Metrics, Operational Evaluation Framework (OEF), Modeling and Simulation (M&S) for Test and Evaluation, Defense Business Systems, Cybersecurity, and Software-Intensive Systems sections of the DOT&E TEMP Guidebook 3.0. The cybersecurity guidance includes a statement reminding readers that a Cooperative Vulnerability and Penetration Assessment and Adversarial Assessment are normally required as part of an operational test or assessment supporting a fielding decision. The command and control cybersecurity example now contains a detailed table describing cyber defenders' roles and responsibilities.
Motion-Induced Eddy Current Techniques for Non-Destructive Testing and Evaluation
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The book, consisting of 6 chapters, studies motion-induced eddy current techniques for non-destructive testing and evaluation by considering: forward simulation methods; sensors for MIECT; experiments and LET measurements; and Lorentz force evaluation and non-destructive applications.
Non-Destructive Materials Characterization and Evaluation
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This book is devoted to non-destructive materials characterization (NDMC) using different non-destructive evaluation techniques. It presents theoretical basis, physical understanding, and technological developments in the field of NDMC with suitable examples for engineering and materials science applications. It is written for engineers and researchers in R&D, design, production, quality assurance, and non-destructive testing and evaluation.
Non-Destructive Testing and Condition Monitoring Techniques for Renewable Energy Industrial Assets
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Non-Destructive Testing and Condition Monitoring Techniques for Renewable Energy Industrial Assets integrates state-of-the-art information and discusses future developments and their significance to the improvement of the renewable energy industry. Renewable energy assets are complex systems with several critical components that require inspection and adequate maintenance in order to ensure their high availability and uninterrupted operation. This is the first book to apply NDT and condition monitoring to these complex systems.
Nondestructive Testing and Evaluation of Fiber-Reinforced Composite Structures
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This book presents a detailed description of the most common nondestructive testing (NDT) techniques used for the testing and evaluation fiber-reinforced composite structures, during manufacturing and/or in service stages. In order to facilitate the understanding and the utility of the different NDT techniques presented, the book first provides some information regarding the defects and material degradation mechanisms observed in fiber-reinforced composite structures as well as their general description and most probable causes. It is written based on the extensive scientific research and engineering backgrounds of the authors in the NDT and structural health monitoring (SHM) of structural systems from various areas including electrical, mechanical, materials, civil and biomedical engineering.
Novel Approaches for Nondestructive Testing and Evaluation
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Nondestructive testing and evaluation (NDT&E) is one of the most important techniques for determining the quality and safety of materials, components, devices, and structures. NDT&E technologies include ultrasonic testing (UT), magnetic particle testing (MT), magnetic flux leakage testing (MFLT), eddy current testing (ECT), radiation testing (RT), penetrant testing (PT), and visual testing (VT), and these are widely used throughout the modern industry.
Reliability Growth: Enhancing Defense System Reliability
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A high percentage of defense systems fail to meet their reliability requirements. This is a serious problem for the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD), as well as the nation. Those systems are not only less likely to successfully carry out their intended missions, but they also could endanger the lives of the operators. Furthermore, reliability failures discovered after deployment can result in costly and strategic delays and the need for expensive redesign, which often limits the tactical situations in which the system can be used. Reliability Growth evaluates these recent changes and, more generally, assesses how current DOD principles and practices could be modified to increase the likelihood that defense systems will satisfy their reliability requirements.
Risk Modeling: Practical Applications of Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning
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Providing up-to-date coverage of the practical application of current modelling techniques in risk management, this real-world guide also explores new opportunities and challenges associated with implementing machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) into the risk management process. Authors Terisa Roberts and Stephen Tonna provide readers with a clear understanding about the strengths and weaknesses of machine learning and AI while explaining how they can be applied to both everyday risk management problems and to evaluate the financial impact of extreme events such as global pandemics and changes in climate. Throughout the text, the authors clarify misconceptions about the use of machine learning and AI techniques using clear explanations while offering step-by-step advice for implementing the technologies into an organization's risk management model governance framework
Security Controls: Evaluation, Testing, and Assessment Handbook
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Security Controls: Evaluation, Testing, and Assessment Handbook provides a current and well-developed approach to evaluate and test IT security controls to prove they are functioning correctly. This handbook discusses the world of threats and potential breach actions surrounding all industries and systems. Sections cover how to take FISMA, NIST Guidance, and DOD actions, while also providing a detailed, hands-on guide to performing assessment events for information security professionals in US federal agencies. This handbook uses the DOD Knowledge Service and the NIST Families assessment guides as the basis for needs assessment, requirements and evaluation efforts.
Structural Materials: Behavior, Testing and Evaluation
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This book discusses the properties, characterization procedures, and analysis techniques of various structural materials. It presents the latest design considerations and uses of engineering materials as well as theories for fully understanding them through numerous worked mathematical examples. The book gradually builds the concept of materials and the principles of material classifications and their response to different physical disturbances, and finally, about the selection methods based upon the test results of the standard methods to choose appropriate materials for various engineering applications. The principles and related theories predicting the response of different structural materials are introduced in a concise and logical manner.
Test and Evaluation Challenges in Artificial Intelligence-Enabled Systems for the Department of the Air Force
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The Department of the Air Force (DAF) is in the early stages of incorporating modern artificial intelligence (AI) technologies into its systems and operations. The integration of AI-enabled capabilities across the DAF will accelerate over the next few years. At the request of DAF Air and Space Forces, this report examines the Air Force Test Center technical capabilities and capacity to conduct rigorous and objective tests, evaluations, and assessments of AI-enabled systems under operational conditions and against realistic threats. This report explores both the opportunities and challenges inherent in integrating AI at speed and at scale across the DAF.
ASM Handbook, Volume 8: Mechanical Testing and Evaluation
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This book is ASM's standard reference on the mechanical characteristics and testing of metals, plastics, ceramics, and composites. Understand the basics of mechanical behavior with in-depth coverage on testing methods for those materials. Comparative mechanical properties and the mechanical characteristics of metals, plastics, and ceramics are included throughout for general reference.
ASM Handbook, Volume 11: Failure Analysis and Prevention
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Volume 11 serves as a reference to help readers understand the causes of failures and prevent future occurrences. It covers fatigue and fracture, distortion, corrosion, and wear as well as the practices of systematic failure analysis and the essential tools and techniques. It describes the phenomenological characteristics of many forms of failure, explaining how they are observed and what they reveal about the design, manufacturing, and service history of failed components and the materials from which they are made.
ASM Handbook, Volume 13A: Corrosion Fundamentals, Testing and Protection
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Volume 13A is a comprehensive reference on corrosion, its causes, and cures. It describes the fundamental electrochemistry of corrosion and the thermodynamic and kinetic mechanisms that drive the corrosion process. It explains how to recognize the most common forms of corrosion, including uniform corrosion, localized corrosion, metallurgically influenced corrosion, mechanically assisted degradation, and environmentally induced cracking. It also examines wear-corrosion interactions and explains how to measure corrosion rates in various environments.
ASM Handbook, Volume 17: Nondestructive Evaluation of Materials
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Volume 17 describes the tools and techniques used in nondestructive evaluation and what they reveal about the integrity and operating potential of engineered materials and components. It covers the entire spectrum of sensing technologies from visible light inspection to ultrasonic, thermal, electromagnetic, and radiographic imaging. It explains how to identify and classify discontinuities in a variety of materials and how to determine if, when, and how they may lead to failure.
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