...2002 by former PayPal entrepreneur and Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk. SpaceX was founded with the goal of reducing space transportation costs and enabling the colonization of Mars. It has developed the Falcon 1 and Falcon 9 launch vehicles, both of which were designed from conception to eventually become reusable. SpaceX also developed the Dragon spacecraft, which are flown into orbit by the Falcon 9 launch vehicle, initially transporting cargo and later planned to carry humans to the International Space Station and other destinations.[1] By 2012, SpaceX had over 40 launches on its manifest representing about $4 billion in contract revenue—with many of those contracts already making progress payments to SpaceX—with both commercial and government (NASA/DOD) customers. As of December 2013, SpaceX has a total of 50 future launches under contract, two-thirds of them are for commercial customers. SpaceX's low launch prices, especially for communication satellites flying to geostationary orbit, have resulted in market pressure on its competitors to lower their own prices. In recent years, the communications satellites launch market has been dominated by "Europe's Arianespace, which flies the Ariane 5, and International Launch Services (ILS), which markets Russia's Proton vehicle." Depending on a number of factors, mostly the size and weight of payload, the cost of a single launch ranges from $100 million to $260...
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...ORION SHIELD PROJECT AMBA640, Professor Steven Versace Executive Summary “A good project manager contributes to a project’s success. Project managers work with the project sponsors, the project team, and the other people involved in a project to define, communicate, and meet project goals.” So says Schwalbe (2012). In the Orion Shield Project, we saw how a total disregard for the core attributes that define a project, stood to be the catalyst behind the demise of rising star Mr. Gary Allison. Further, the triple constraints managed closely by program managers, never once was mentioned or managed effectively through-out the duration of the project. As a result of that oversight, monies deemed as corporate profit for the company, ended being a deficit to tune of $150.000. This Orion Shield Project scenario provides a vivid picture of “what not to do” which is bound to assist ambitious new program managers to utilize tools available within the project management environment to attain the success the customer envisions. According to Schwalbe (2012), Projects have a set of attributes that helps to define it as such. They tend to have a unique purpose which accompanies well defined objectives. It appears that Gary Allison made a fatal error by first not thoroughly defining the project he was about to assume, as well as identifying resources needed to include, raw materials, people, hardware or software: resources that would ensure the project was a success...
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...To: Senior Advisor David Plouffe From: Administrator, Mourtaday Malik Subject: Non-Congressional Climate Change Strategies to Save Energy Date: April 25, 2016 Summary The increasing average air and ocean temperatures- which involve rising sea levels, increasing frequency of major storms, and the potential for catastrophic collapses of ecosystems – is simply too serious to ignore. For the U.S, the end behind adopting a convincing greenhouse gas reduction policy is twofold: first, applying strong strategies internally will give the United States more credibility at the international level to negotiate CO2 reductions; second, the U.S. has the opening to economically benefit if it can become the world leader in clean-tech industry. The major...
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...COMPUTER CRIMES A Case Study submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the completion of the course in CIS401M: IT ETHICS AND LEADERSHIP Term 3, Academic Year 2014-2015 by LORETO V. SIBAYAN PAUL MATTHEW G. AVILA Master of Science in Information Technology College of Computer Studies April 2014 TABLE OF CONTENTS ABSTRACT 5 CHAPTER 1 1.0 INTRODUCTION 6 CHAPTER 2 2.0 OVERVIEW OF LITERATURE 8 2.1 CYBERCRIME 9 2.2 THEORIES OF CRIME 2.2.1 CRIMINOLOGICAL THEORIES 10 2.2.2 PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORIES 12 2.3 TYPES OF CRIME 14 2.3 CAUSES CYBERCRIME 19 2.4 CYBERCRIME PREVENTION 22 CHAPTER 3 3.0 ANALYSIS CYBERCRIME CASES 26 SUMMARY OF CYBERCRIME CASES 38 CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION 43 REFERENCES 44 ABSTRACT The 21st century has brought about certain influences in the lives of everyone including the way we do business transactions, the way we gain education and the way we communicate; these influences are mostly revolutionized through the use of modern day technology and though these technologies have been proven to be beneficial to the entire society, it also carries with it aspects that can be worrying for everyone. Certain professionals in the said field use their expertise to illegally develop ways on how to take advantage of others with of course the use of technology hence cybercrime...
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...Culture be Lethal? RICHARD O. MASON ‘‘Houston We Have a Problem.’’ A Message Never Sent or Received. On February 1, 2003, the Space Shuttle Columbia, on its way to its landing site in Florida, blew apart in the skies of East Texas. Its seven-member crew perished. The $2 billion ship was lost; some destruction occurred on the ground, and considerable cost was incurred to recover debris scattered over several states. The disaster sounded an eerie echo from the past. Seventeen years earlier the shuttle Challenger exploded 73 seconds into flight due to an O-ring malfunction. All seven crewmembers were also lost. And, about 11 years before that, the cabin of Apollo 1 burst into flames on its pad. Three crewmembers were killed. Within a day, as NASA policy requires, an internal investigation team of six ex officio members was formed. Harold Gehman Jr., a retired admiral who was NATO supreme allied commander in Europe, was appointed to chair it. A veteran of several military investigations, including the bombing of the U.S. Cole, Gehman, in an initially unpopular move, broadened the inquiry to include the agency’s organization, history and culture. Sean O’Keefe, NASA’s administrator, was incensed that the investigation would reach beyond the confines of the shuttle project alone, and his relations with Gehman became strained and stiff. Based on his experience, however, Gehman persisted. An Accident Investigation Board (hereafter referred to as the Board) was appointed with six additional...
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...Executive Summary Airbus and Boeing have constituted a duopoly in the large jet airliner market since the 1990s, leading to fierce competition. Boeing is an American company while Airbus began as a consortium of European aviation. The two are presently facing issue that tarnish their political, legal, and ethical reputations. Airbus argues that Boeing has received over $16 billion from the US government in addition to help from countries like Japan. The U.S. fires back arguing that since 1992, Airbus has been receiving EU government loans. Boeing’s scandal with Lockheed and the discovery of wing cracks in the Airbus A380s have damaged both companies’ ethical reputations. The following recommendations will ensure that, while Boeing and Airbus compete in the commercial airline industry, their actions will be ethical and legal, while adapting within the current cultural and political bounds of the global market. Introduction Boeing: the world’s largest aerospace company Since its foundation in 1916 in the Puget Sound region of Washington State, Boeing has become the largest aerospace company and a leading producer of military and commercial aircraft. Boeing’s military aircraft come equipped with satellite, missiles, launch vehicles and advanced information, and communication systems. The number one U.S. exporter have about 160,000 employees across the United States and in 70 countries, making it one of the most diverse and talented companies that thrive through their innovative...
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...flash cards • Pre- and post-lecture quizzes • Microsoft Office 2007 lab manual and projects • How-to animations for Microsoft Office • Additional cases CHAPTER OUTLINE 3.1 Ethical Issues 3.2 Threats to Information Security 3.3 Protecting Information Resources What’s in IT for me? ACC FIN MKT OM HRM MIS rain_c03_070-121hr.qxd 28-09-2009 11:25 Page 72 72 Chapter 3 Ethics, Privacy, and Information Security Opening Case NASA Loses Secret Information for Years The Business Problem Over the past decade, U.S. government agencies have been the victims of an unprecedented number of cyber-attacks. One government official noted, “It is espionage on a massive scale.” Government agencies reported almost 13,000 security incidents to the U.S. Homeland Security Department during fiscal year 2008, triple the number from two years earlier. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) (www.nasa.gov) is one of the hardest-hit agencies. The government agency responsible for the nation’s public space program, NASA, has been the target of cyber-espionage dating back at least to the late 1990s. During...
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...Alen Sonny Mr. Lewis APUSH Period 5 13 April, 2014 The War between Communism and Democracy for Dominance of Space The Space Race was a war of firsts between the United States of America and the Union Soviet Socialist Republics. But it was also the culmination of the dreams of man for many millennia and the team who worked on the space programs was able to discover what so many of the people that came before and after them could only dream of. It was an endeavor that all of humanity was invested in at the time. It was a testament to the power of the human spirit and it showed how nothing was impossible if we persevered and strived to be better. The space race did not start as one would expect with the respective American and Soviet space agencies. But rather it began with the German V2 missile launches towards the end of World War 2. The V2 missile was designed by Wernher Von Braun a German scientist who had dreamed of traveling to the moon for many years; however this dream had to be secret as it was considered to be treasonous and not helpful to the German cause. Von Braun and many other amateur rocketeers were drafted into the German war machine in order to help build a super weapon and their base was Peenemünde. When the war was nearing its end the Third Reich unleashed its secret weapon, the V2 missile. It could hit anywhere within its target range and there would be no warning. When it hit, it caused scenes of mass destruction. The V2 missiles were to be Hitler’s...
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...9-603-062 REV. OCTOBER 29, 2002 DOROTHY LEONARD DAVID KIRON Managing Knowledge and Learning at NASA and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) Downsizing at NASA over the last decade through attrition and buyouts has resulted in an imbalance in NASA’s skill mix.1 — The President’s Management Agenda, Fiscal Year 2002 By the end of this decade, many of the most experienced scientists and engineers at NASA and JPL are going to retire. If we don’t have systems in place to retain more of what they know, our institution is going to suffer. — Jeanne Holm, Chief Knowledge Architect for NASA In the spring of 2002, Jeanne Holm, Chief Knowledge Architect for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and its Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), was giving a tour of JPL. Stopping at a viewing stage above JPL’s mission control center, Holm explained the growing need for knowledge management at NASA: Almost 40% of JPL’s science and engineering workforce is currently eligible for retirement. In just four years, half of NASA’s entire workforce will be eligible. Many of these people are the most experienced project managers—the people who worked on Apollo (the mission to the Moon) and built the first space shuttle. Yet, we have few programs designed to bring their wisdom into our institutional memory. In the past 10 years, the budgets on our missions have been radically reduced, missions have multiplied ten-fold, and our scientists and engineers have been pushed...
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...What is climate change? The Earth's climate has changed over the last century. Increases in average temperatures have been seen around the globe and there is new and stronger evidence that most of the warming observed in the last 50 years is due to human activities. While climate change is a global issue, it will affect us all. Climate change has the potential to adversely affect our environment, our communities and our economy unless we take action now to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions and prepare for the impacts. Climate change will alter global and local climates. In Victoria, this means a warmer and drier future, with an increasing likelihood of more extreme events such as heatwaves, bushfires and storm surges. Climate change is the greatest threat facing our planet today. A warming planet alters weather patterns, water supplies, seasonal growth for plants and a sustainable way of life for us and the world’s wildlife. Climate change has already started, but it’s not too late to take action. There’s still time for us all to be part of the solution. A continuous flow of energy from the sun heats the Earth. Naturally occurring gases in the atmosphere, known as greenhouse gases – this includes carbon dioxide (CO2) - , trap this heat like a blanket, keeping the Earth at an average of 15 degrees Celsius – warm enough to sustain life. The overuse of fossil fuels is increasing CO2 in the atmosphere, trapping more and more heat and warming the Earth. As a result, we’re...
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...ANNUAL REPORT 2011-12 Government of India Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation Sardar Patel Bhawan New Delhi - 110001 Website: http//mospi.gov.in. CONTENTS Chapters Page Vision Mission Introduction Development and Highlights National Statistical Commission Central Statistical Office National Sample Survey Office Coordination of Statistical Activities Computer Centre Statistical Services Indian Statistical Institute Twenty Point Programme Infrastructure and Projects Monitoring Member of Parliament Local Area Development Scheme Hindi Promotion Other Activities ANNEXES I IA IB IC ID IE IF IG IH II IIIA IIIB IVA IVB IVC V VI VII VIII Organisation Charts Ministry of Statistics & Programme Implementation Administration National Statistical Commission Central Statistical Office National Sample Survey Office Computer Centre Programme Implementation Wing Abbreviations used Allocation of Business to the Ministry Project, Seminar/Conference/Workshop and Travel Grant Assistance sanctioned during 2010-11 Project, Seminar/Conference/Workshop and Travel Grant Assistance sanctioned during 2011-12 (Up to December, 2011) Statement of Budget Estimate (SBE) -2011-12 Total Plan Gross Budgetary Support (GBS) for 2010-11 (BE and RE) for North-Eastern Region. Total Plan Gross Budgetary Support (GBS) for 2011-12 (BE and RE) for North-Eastern Region. Performance of Monthly Monitored Items under TPP-2006 (April, 2010 to March, 2011) Performance of Monthly Monitored Items under TPP-2006...
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...Educate-Yourself The Freedom of Knowledge, The Power of Thought © Current News | Introduction | Colloidal Silver | Chemtrails | Sylphs | Emerging Diseases | Forbidden Cures |Ozone | Immunity Boosting | Nutrition | The CIA Mind-Body Connection | Ozone | Bioelectrification | Story on Drugs | Vaccine Dangers | Cancer | Newsletter | New World Order | NWO News | Pam Schuffert James Casbolt | Phil Schneider | Al Bielek | Trevor James Constable | Mind Control | Brice Taylor | Ted Gunderson | The Relfes | Free Energy || Montalk Dr. Robert Bitzer | T. Lobsang Rampa | Ruth Drown | ZS Livingstone | David Brandt | Red Elk | Phil Ledoux | Gary Wade | BBB | The Draft | Veterans Awaken Tone Gen | Depleted Uranium | Discussion | Dowsing | Police & Tasers | Rev. Sun Myung Moon | British Israel | The End Times | Amy Goodman Gatekeeper 'Peak Oil' | Amitakh Stanford | Military Draft | Rosie's Predictions | Project Blue Beam | Otto Skorzeny | Insights on Aliens | Cell Towers | Cell Phone Dangers CPS/DCF Tyranny | Adrenal Burnout | The Women Warriors | Orgone Adventures | Dr. John Coleman | Railroading Dr. Jeffrey MacDonald | Henry Makow Bush Family & Nazis | Holistic Dentists | Metal Free Dentistry | Water Supply Sabotage | Dr. Hulda Clark Books | Planet X Sequel | 'Undocumented Immigrants' War on Terror | Tavistock | U.S. Concentration Camps | FEMA | Aliens Are Coming! | Guiding Principles | Global Warming | Gang Stalking | Monoatomic Gold Spiritualsim | Hope | Healing...
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...Legal Aspects of Procurement Management for a Successful Project Class: PROC 5890-Government Procurement Law Date: July 16, 2014 Instructor: The purpose of this paper is to focus on the legal aspects of procurement management and how procurement management plays a significant role in the success and management of a project. The topics that will be covered include the following: basics of common contract laws, cases involving procurement management decision, Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) regarding procurement management, Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) regarding procurement management, Statement of work (SOW), and project manager duties regarding procurement management. In order to discuss procurement management we need to first define what procurement management means in our society today. Procurement is the act of obtaining or buying goods and services. “The process includes preparation and processing of a demand as well as the end receipt and approval of payment. It often involves: (1) purchase planning, (2) standards determination, (3) specifications...
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...1. Introduction This is a summary of the case study of the Chile mining disaster that happened in August 5th 2010. It was once of the most unanticipated disaster that attracted the attention of the entire world. The miners of gold were trapped in the mine for many days. The rescue team was led by a newly elected minister of mining: A successful businessman with little or no information regarding the mining or rescue operations. The dilemma was on how to handle the victims, the relatives of victims, the media and the country at large. This was a matter of life and death. The number of stranded miners was 33. * Identify the key problems and issues in the case study. * Formulate and include a thesis statement, summarizing the outcome of your analysis in 1–2 sentences. 2. Background Chile has been known as one of the leading mineral explorers in the world as well as having numerous mining fields with different minerals. Mining has been extensively been sources of income thus many people are engaged in mining. This activity has been descripting as dangerous with many miners losing their life. The number of deaths in the mining field has increased considerably in the past few years up to 2010 as companies continue to breach mining rules and regulations. * Set the scene: background information, relevant facts, and the most important issues. * Demonstrate that you have researched the problems in this case study. Body This body is divided into the...
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...#PB93-203735 Recommended Citation: U.S. Congress, Office of Technology Assessment, Advanced Network Technology--Background Paper, OTA-BP-TCT-1O1 (Washington, DC: U.S. Government printing Office, June 1993). For sale by the U.S. Government Printing Office Supcl IIIILWIICIII (If [k)c ulllLlll\. \lAll stop $s01’, \$ Allllg((u. [)(’ 2(141? () ~?x ISBN 0-16 -041805-4 -— . . Foreword omputer networks are having dramatic impacts on our lives. What were once esoteric tools used only by scientists and engineers are becoming more widely used in schools, libraries, and businesses. At the same time, researchers are working to develop even more capable networks that promise to change fundamentally the way we communicate. This background paper analyzes technologies for tomorrow’s information superhighways. Advanced networks will first be used to support scientists in their work, linking researchers to supercomputers, databases, and scientific instruments. As the new networks are deployed more widely, they will be used by a broader range of users for business, entertainment, health care, and education applications. The background paper also describes six test networks that are being funded as part of the High Performance Computing and Communications Program. These test networks are a collaboration of government, industry, and academia, and allow researchers to try new approaches to network design and to attack a variety of research questions, Significant progress has been made in...
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