Base Visit Book - Fort Hood Texas dated 22 June 2005

Base Visit - Base Visit Book from Marine Corps Logistics Base Barstow, CA to the BRAC Commission. Includes itinerary, base summary sheet, chart, questions, state map and statistics, closure history and any other additional information.

Base Visit Report - Commissioner Gen Chairman Principi- includes list of attendees, summary of base's present mission, SECDEF's recommendations, key issues, installation and community concerns

Base Visit Report, Lead Commissioner Gen James T. Hill - includes list of attendees, summary of base's present mission, SECDEF's recommendations, key issues, installation and community concerns

Base Visit Report - includes list of attendees, summary of base's present mission, SECDEF's recommendations, key issues, installation and community concerns

Base Visit Report - LTC Kevin Felix (Army Senior Analyst for IGPBS Recommendation: includes list of attendees, summary of base's present mission, SECDEF's recommendation and justifications, facilities reviewed, key issues identified, installation and community concerns and requests for staff as a result of visit.

Department of Defense Clearinghouse Response: DoD Clearinghouse response to an e-mail from the BRAC Commission requesting that the Air Force produce an official run of the recommendation after accounting for the discrepancies. Request the .cbr file be provided as well as a .pdf copy of the output files. (Attached is the PDF copy, the CBR file is document number 3952)

Briefing Book - 89th Medical Group (AMC) Management Summary Fiscal Year 2004

The basic processes of the so-called BaF{sub 2} process for the formation of YBa{sub 2}Cu{sub 3}O{sub 7}, YBCO, films as well as its advantages over the in situ formation processes are discussed in the previous chapter. The process and the properties of YBCO films by this process were also nicely described in earlier articles by R. Feenstra, et al. Here, we will discuss two pertinent subjects related to fabrication of technologically viable YBCO conductors using this process. These are (1) the growth of thick (>> 1 {micro}m) c-axis-oriented YBCO films and (2) their growth rates. Before the detail discussions of these subjects are given, we first briefly discuss what geometrical structure a YBCO-coated conductor should be. Then, we will provide examples of simple arguments for how thick the YBCO films and how fast their growth rates need to be. Then, the discussions in the following two sections are devoted to: (1) the present understanding of the nucleation and the growth process for YBCO, and why it is so difficult to grow thick c-axis-oriented films (> 3 {micro}m), and (2) our present understanding of the YBCO growth-limiting mechanism and methods to increase the growth rates. The values of critical-current densities J{sub …

Recently, Akimitsu and co-workers [1] discovered superconductivity at 39 K in the intermetallic compound MgB{sub 2}. This discovery provides a new perspective on the mechanism for superconductivity. More specifically, it opens up possibilities for investigation of structure/properties in a new class of materials. With the exceptions of the cuprate and C{sub 60} families of compounds, MgB{sub 2} possesses the highest superconducting transition temperature T{sub c}. Its superconductivity appears to follow the BCS theory, apparently being mediated by electron-phonon coupling. The coherence length of MgB{sub 2} is reported to be longer than that of the cuprates [2]. In contrast to the cuprates, grain boundaries are strongly coupled and current density is determined by flux pinning [2,3]. Presently, samples of MgB{sub 2} commonly display inhomogeneity and porosity on the nanoscale, and are untextured. In spite of these obstacles, magnetization and transport measurements show that polycrystalline samples may carry large current densities circulating across many grains [3,4]. Very high values of critical current densities and critical fields have been recently observed in thin films [5,6]. These attributes suggest possible large scale and electronic applications. The underlying microstructure can be intriguing, both in terms of basic science and in applied areas. Subsequent to the …