Every president needs a decisionmaking system that harnesses the full capabilities and accumulated wisdom of the U.S. government and the nation’s many stakeholders. This Perspective analyzes a range ...of management challenges in the national security system and presents recommendations for strengthening U.S. decisionmaking and oversight of policy implementation.
Depth sensing nanoindentation is applied to characterize the mechanical properties of new superhard materials such as cubic c-BC
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. Special load–time functions are developed to test the material by ...repeated loading and unloading processes. These intelligent load functions are applied in multi-cycling indents at the same place on the sample surface. Besides being time-efficient, the data collection method also does not suffer from lateral inhomogeneities of the sample. The hardness of the single phase cubic c-BC
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sample was found to be 78 GPa and its indentation modulus is between 900 and 1000 GPa. Hysteresis loops are observed in the superhard material, which are attributed to the generation of nano-cracks.
Ending the U.S. war in Iraq required redeploying 100,000 military and civilian personnel; handing off responsibility for 431 activities to the Iraqi government, U.S. embassy, USCENTCOM, or other U.S. ...government entities; and moving or transferring ownership of over a million pieces of property in accordance with U.S. and Iraqi laws, national policy, and DoD requirements. This book examines the planning and execution of this transition.
This study examines how policies to increase energy efficiency in buildings in the European Union and Australia have worked and draws implications for the design of similar public policies for the ...United States. It appears that effective policies to promote energy efficiency can be devised using information disclosure, building codes, financial incentives, and benchmarking. Insights are presented to help designers of analogous U.S. policies.
Hope for a prosperous and peaceful future for Haiti lies in building a more effective, resilient state. This report identifies the main challenges to more capable governance, evaluates existing plans ...for improving the delivery of public services, and proposes a realistic set of critical actions. The proposed state-building priorities merit the greatest degree of Haiti's andinternational donors' policy attention and financial commitment.
This study examines how policies to increase energy efficiency in buildings in the European Union and Australia have worked and draws implications for the design of similar public policies for the ...United States. It appears that effective policies to promote energy efficiency can be devised using information disclosure, building codes, financial incentives, and benchmarking. Insights are presented to help designers of analogous U.S. policies.
Despite the checkered results of previous attempts to reform and restructure America’s national security decisionmaking system, and the importance of personalities in policymaking in general, a ...focused reform of a limited number of aspects of the system could pay real dividends.
There is broad agreement—dating back to the 1960s¹—that the time to debate and decide on changes is as a new administration prepares to take office. Newly named White House officials are especially jealous of their new prerogatives, and adversaries and friends are testing the new administration’s intentions.
As the next administration (preferably the next presidential transition team)
