Contains notes and research from Air Force Team Analyst Craig Hall regarding Air Guard and Reserve issues (Part #1 of 2)

The United States continues to maintain its leadership in ICF as it moves toward the goal of ignition. The flagship of the program is the National Ignition Facility (NIF) presently under construction at LLNL. Experiments had begun on the first four beams of the National Ignition Facility just at the time of the last IFSA Conference. Several new successful campaigns have been conducted since then in planar hydrodynamics and hohlraums as well as activating the VISAR diagnostic for equation of state experiments. Highlights of these results will be reviewed. Presently, the four beam experimental capability has been suspended while the first eight beams are being installed as the first step in building out the project. Meanwhile, much progress has been made in developing ignition designs for using NIF. An array of designs having several ablator materials have been shown computationally to ignite with energies ranging from the design energy to as low as 1 MJ of laser energy. Alternative direct drive designs in the NIF indirect drive configuration have been developed by LLE. This wide array of design choices has increased the chance of achieving ignition sooner on the facility. Plans are now being developed to begin an ignition experimental …

This report is on Asian Pacific American Political Participation and Representation in Elective Office.

We are now entering the final stages of our ''Seismic Evaluation of Hydrocarbon Saturation in Deep-Water Reservoirs'' project (Grant/Cooperative Agreement DE-FC26-02NT15342). We have now developed several techniques to help distinguish economic hydrocarbon deposits from false ''Fizz'' gas signatures. These methods include using the proper in situ rock and fluid properties, evaluating interference effects on data, and doing better constrained inversions for saturations. We are testing these techniques now on seismic data from several locations in the Gulf of Mexico. In addition, we are examining the use of seismic attenuation as indicated by frequency shifts below potential reservoirs. During this quarter we have: Began our evaluation of our latest data set over the Neptune Field; Developed software for computing composite reflection coefficients; Designed and implemented stochastic turbidite reservoir models; Produced software & work flow to improve frequency-dependent AVO analysis; Developed improved AVO analysis for data with low signal-to-noise ratio; and Examined feasibility of detecting fizz gas using frequency attenuation. Our focus on technology transfer continues, both by generating numerous presentations for the upcoming SEG annual meeting, and by beginning our planning for our next DHI minisymposium next spring.

Contains notes and research from Navy Team Analyst Brian McDaniel regarding Naval Station Pascagoula, MS #4

Contains Naval Postgraduate School, CA Data (base visit briefs, base information and general data) from Joint Cross Service Analyst Syd Carroll

Contains notes research (General) Kulis, AGS, Alaska, By Craig Hall of the AIR FORCE Team.

Executive Correspondence - The following three memoranda of law discuss possible legal and policy constraints on BRAC Commission action regarding certain base closure and realignment recommendations. The memoranda are not products of deliberation by the Commissioners and accordingly do not necessarily represent their views, or those of the Commission.

Contains minutes of OSD's Joint E&T Study Group from Joint Cross Service Team Analyst Syd Carroll

Contains notes, emails and other material presented to the Senate Armed Services Committee on September 15, 2005 upon their request.