Letters from two concerned citizens to Anthony Principi regarding the potential BRAC closure of the 911th Airlift Wing of Pennsylvania.

Coalition Correspondence – Letter dated 6/1/2005 to the BRAC Commission from Dana Donahue, President of the Perryton Ochiltree Chamber of Commerce stating factors in support of keeping Cannon Air Force Base in Clovis, New Mexico open.

The combination of high-brightness electron sources and high-current SRF Energy Recovery Linacs (ERL) leads to a new emerging technology: High-power, high-brightness electron beams. This technology enables extremely high average power Free-Electron Lasers, a new generation of extreme brightness light sources, electron coolers of high-energy hadron storage rings, polarized electron-hadron colliders of very high luminosity, compact Thomson scattering X-ray sources, terahertz radiation generators and much more. What is typical for many of these applications is the need for very high current, defined here as over 100 mA average current, and high brightness, which is charge dependant, but needs to be in the range of between sub micron up to perhaps 50 microns, usually the lower--the better. Suffice it to say that while there are a number of projects aiming at this level of performance, none is anywhere near it. This work will review the problems associated with the achievement of such performance and the various approaches taken in a number of laboratories around the world to address the issues.

An R&D facility for an Energy Recovery Linac (ERL) intended as part of an electron-cooling project for RHIC is, being constructed at this laboratory. The center piece of the facility is a 5-cell 703.75 MHz super-conducting RF linac. Successful operation will depend on effective HOM damping. It is planned to achieve HOM damping exclusively with ferrite absorbers. The performance of a prototype absorber was measured by transforming it into a resonant cavity and alternatively by a conventional wire method. The results expressed as a surface or R-square impedance are presented in this paper.

While there are a number of university graduate-education programs that address non-proliferation and safeguards policy issues; there are none in the United States that train students in the specific technical aspects of nuclear safeguards. Formal education of this kind is necessary to sustain the flow of technically trained individuals to diverse programs in safeguards, nonproliferation, and national security. In response to this need, the University of Missouri-Columbia, with assistance from Brookhaven National Laboratory, is initiating a Graduate Certificate Program in Nuclear Safeguards Technology: Students seeking advanced degrees in a variety of technical areas will complete a required sequence of courses in order to receive the certification. Required course work covers topics such as Nuclear Material Control and Accountability (MC&A), Physical Protection (PP); nuclear measurements, and a variety of other relevant subjects. Laboratory-based instruction will be included which will utilize the University of Missouri Research Reactor(MURR). MURR is the largest university-based research reactor and has extensive laboratory resources including a Canberra Aquila MPC&A Operational Monitoring demonstration system.

In this paper, we propose a new strategy for optimizing the placement of bin boundaries to minimize the cost of query evaluation using bitmap indices with binning. For attributes with a large number of distinct values, often the most efficient index scheme is a bitmap index with binning. However, this type of index may not be able to fully resolve some user queries. To fully resolve these queries, one has to access parts of the original data to check whether certain candidate records actually satisfy the specified conditions. We call this procedure the candidate check, which usually dominates the total query processing time. Given a set of user queries, we seek to minimize the total time required to answer the queries by optimally placing the bin boundaries. We show that our dynamic programming based algorithm can efficiently determine the bin boundaries. We verify our analysis with some real user queries from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. For queries that require significant amount of time to perform candidate check, using our optimal bin boundaries reduces the candidate check time by a factor of 2 and the total query processing time by 40 percent.

Base Visit Trip - Base Visit Report for Naval station Norfolk, and Norfolk Naval Shipyard Portsmouth conducted by Chairman Principi, Hal Tickle, Jim Durso, and Lesia Mandzia on 23 May 2005.

Base Visit Trip - Base visit report for Naval Submarine Base New London conducted by Commissioner James Bilbray, Philip Coyle and Lloyd Newton, along with commission staff members Jim Hanna, Hal Tickle, and Michael Kessler on 31 May 2005.

Base Visit Trip - Trip report for Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay visit conducted by Hal Tickle on 17 June 2005.

Base Visit Trip - Trip report for naval Air Station Jacksonville, conducted 16 June 2005 by Hal Tickle.

Base Visit Book - Base visit for Grand Forks AFB, North Dakota, conducted by commissioners James H. Bilbray, Philip Coyle, and Samuel K. Skinner June 22, 2005.

Base Visit Report - Report for visit to Navy/MC - Naval Air Station Brunswick, Maine conducted by Chairman Principi, commissioner James Bilbray, Philip Coyle and Lloyd Newton.

Base Visit Trip - Report for base visit to Naval Station Newport, Rhode Island, on June 27-28, 2005, conducted by David Epstein.

Base Visit Trip - Trip Report for Naval Surface Warfare Center, Crane, Indiana, conducted by Commissioner K. Skinner, and commission Staff David Epstein.

Base Visit Trip - Visit Report for Navy Supply Corps School (NSCS) conducted by Commissioner Harold W. Gehman Jr, and commission staff member David Epstein.

Base Visit Trip - Report for base visit for Portsmouth Naval Shipyard conducted by Chairman Principi, Commissioner James H. Bilbray, Commissioner Philip Coyle and commissioner Lloyd W. Newton.

Base Visit Trip - Visit report for Puget Sound naval shipyard and Intermediate Maintenance Facility Detachment Boston Massachusetts.

Executive Correspondence – Letters dated 7/7/2005 from Congressmen Darrell Issa of the 49th District, California to all Commissioners strongly objecting to the approval of the recommendation to realign the Fallbrook, CA, detachment of Naval Surface Warfare Center Division Crane, IN, known as Marine Corps Programs Department or "MCPD" to Picatinny Arsenal, New Jersey.

Executive Correspondence – Letters dated 7/7/2005 from Congressmen Darrell Issa of the 49th District, California to Mr. Lester Fairington and Mr. David Epstein strongly objecting to the approval of the recommendation to realign the Fallbrook, CA, detachment of Naval Surface Warfare Center Division Crane, IN, known as Marine Corps Programs Department or "MCPD" to Picatinny Arsenal, New Jersey.

Executive Correspondence – Letter to the Chairman dated 7/1/2005 from Audra Strickland Assemblywoman, 37th District, California stating reasons the commission should reject the Department of Defense's recommendations to move weapons, range, and electronic warfare functions from Naval Base Ventura County (NBVC) to China Lake.

Executive Correspondence – Letter dated 7/5/2005 to the Chairman from John Moore Lieutenant Governor of Kansas thanking the Chairman for meeting with John Armbrust, Don Fix, John Simmons and John Moore expressing strong support for the Department of Defense's Base Closure and Realignment recommendations for the Kansas Air National Guard’s 184th and 190th Air Refueling Wings.

Executive Correspondence – Letter dated 6/1/2005 to the BRAC Commission from Judge Kenneth Donahue of the County of Ochiltree, Texas listing factors that support keeping Cannon Air Force Base in Clovis, New Mexico open.

Executive Correspondence – to the BRAC Commission from Gary Woods, Jacksonville Refueling Overhaul Project Engineering & Planning Manager Portsmouth Naval Shipyard expressing his support to keep Portsmouth Naval Shipyard open, based on the performance of the base.

Executive Correspondence – Letter dated 7/7/2005 to the BRAC Commission from Trevlyn Pitner, Chief of Police of the Police Department of Pampa TX stating factors in support of keeping Cannon Air Force Base in Clovis, New Mexico open.