military acquisition and procurement

... audiotape and in Braille. ARKANSAS STATE HIGHWAY AND TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENT Page 2 STANDARD BID CONDITIONS H-13-136P 1. ACCEPTANCE AND REJECTION: The Arkansas State Highway and Transportation ... LOCATION: AHTD Equipment and MAIL TO: AHTD Equipment and DELIVER TO: AHTD Equipment and Procurement Division Procurement Division Procurement Division Bid Opening Date: January ... services elsewhere and to charge full increase, if any, in cost and handling to defaulting vendor. Applicable bonds may be forfeited. 14. ETHICS: “It shall be a breach of ethical standards for a...

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... Mil-Specs and Mil-Stds by directing the services and rele- vant defense agencies to “use performance and commercial specifications and standards instead of military specifications and standards, ... Development and Acquisition; Ms. Paula Howard, U.S. Navy Standardization Office; Mr. Jeff Allan and Mr. Tom O’Mara, Naval Air Systems Command; Mr. David White, Naval Sea Systems Command; Mr. Stephen ... its military specifications and standards reform (MSSR) efforts appeared to be underfunded. The study had four objectives: first, to define the status of Navy military specification and standards...

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... 2000; Tenenhaus et al., 1995) and recent investigations on computa- tional models for language acquisition and ground- ing (Siskind, 1995; Roy and Pentland, 2002; Yu and Ballard, 2004), we are particularly ... perceptually grounded objects in the environment (Siskind, 1995; Roy and Pentland, 2002; Yu and Ballard, 2004). Especially in (Yu and Ballard, 2004), an unsupervised approach based on a generative ... gaze and spoken utter- ances during human machine conversation to auto- matically acquire and interpret vocabularies. Motivated by psycholinguistic studies (Just and Carpenter, 1976; Griffin and...

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... SECURITY POPULATION AND AGING PUBLIC SAFETY SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY SUBSTANCE ABUSE TERRORISM AND HOMELAND SECURITY TRANSPORTATION AND INFRASTRUCTURE WORKFORCE AND WORKPLACE The RAND Corporation ... other competitive acquisitions and prior surveys of competitive acquisition of weapon systems and components. That body of information provided a basis for estimating the balance of costs and benefits ... supply and demand for shipyard labor under each of several options for distributing the work among the two shipyards and for scheduling the work across calendar time. xvi Acquisition and Competition...

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... '99 and DNA entities was too small to train with. As part of the overall project we are creating an expert-tagged corpus of MEDLINE abstracts and full papers for training and testing ... extract named entity properties, events and other domain-specific concepts from MEDLINE abstracts and full texts. One part of this work is the construction and maintenance of an ontology for the ... structure). Eventu- ally we hope to be able to identify and extract do- main specific facts such as protein-protein binding information from full texts and to aid biochemists in the formation of cell...

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... Electric, Pratt and Whitney, and Rolls-Royce (North America). This report should be of interest to the cost-analysis community, the military aircraft acquisition community, and acquisition policy ... into military engine technology, the military aircraft acquisi- tion process, and parametric cost-estimating methodologies. This study draws from databases from various Air Force, Navy, and military ... One INTRODUCTION STUDY BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Realistic cost estimates for military aircraft play an important role in developing sound budgets and in contributing to an effective acquisition policy. RAND has a long...

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... both Vietnamese teachers and students considered that it was safe to learn and memorize rules. Vietnamese learners are also famous for scrutinizing words and phrases and paid little attention ... learning strategies on the learning and teaching of foreign and second language. Good choice and use of learning strategies would help learners become more independent and autonomous as well as improve ... related to female’s social skills, stronger verbal skills, and greater conformity to academic and linguistic norms. In their study, Bacon and Finnemann (1992) also find that women use more “private/...

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... discussion and its impacts on speaking and its impacts on speaking ability of the non-major ability of the non-major students at the post- students at the post- elementary level in Military ... participants in PTP group performed better and more accurately than those in NP group in terms of EFVF and EFNF (in terms of tense, subject verb agreement and pronouncing morpheme-s in plurality ... complexity and accuracy. - Find out other factors affect students’ speaking competence - experiment in higher or mixed proficiency level students - Include the subjects of both male and female...

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... Department of Education and Arts (1994), the review of research into language and literacy by Freebody and Gilbert (1999), and the review of recent developments in language and literacy development ... Education Commission of Victoria. Anderson, M. (1992) Intelligence and Development: A Cognitive Theory. Oxford, UK, Cambridge, MA: Blackwell. Andrews, S. (1989). Psycholinguistics and reading acquisition: The ... real words, both regular and irregular (effect sizes of .55, .46 and .60), and on the measures of reading comprehension and listening comprehension (effect sizes of .69 and .40). A further follow-up...

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... unified commands, and the defense agencies under Contract DASW01-01-C-0004. RAND is a nonprofit institution that helps improve policy and decisionmaking through research and analysis. RAND ® is ... Diseases USAMRMC U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command VAE Vaccine Acquisition Executive 2 The Acquisition of Drugs and Biologics for CBW Defense cals (drugs), and the protection of personnel by ... Secretary of Defense for Chemical and Biological Defense and was carried out jointly by RAND’s Center for Military Health Policy Research and the Acquisition and Technology Policy Center of the National...

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... understanding of the production of military activities would be valuable. Interest in experience, training, personnel quality and flexibility, and teamwork is long-standing. However, the military ... define and measure experience and individual effectiveness. Work by Dahlman, Kerchner, and Thaler (DKT) (2002) demonstrates the importance of identifying and maintaining the proper experience and ... Table 3.1. Career Training and F-14 Landing Performance 18 Table 3.2. Training in Previous Month and F-14 Landing Performance 18 Table 3.3. Career Training Hours and Bombing Error 19 Table...

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