Coalition Correspondence – Letters dated 06/30/05 to Commissioners from the Retired Public Employees of Nevada opposing the closure of Hawthorne Weapons Storage Facility.

Coalition Correspondence – Letter dated 07/07/05 to Chairman Principi from Dawn Smith, President of Local 425 of the CSEA in West Seneca NY requesting that Niagara Falls AFB be removed from the BRAC closure list.

Executive Correspondence – Letter dtd 07/05/05 from former 1993 BRAC Commissioner Peter Bowman praising the Commission and requesting that Portsmouth Naval Shipyard and Submarine Base New London be removed from the BRAC list.

Base Visit Trip - Visit Report for Naval Station Great Lakes on 02 June 2005.

Executive Correspondence – Letter dated 7/7/2005 from Representative Darrell Issa (49th, CA) to Christine Hill requesting that John B. Franklin, Legislative Assistant for Military Affairs be permitted to participate in the 15 July 2005 visit of the BRAC Commission staff to the Fallbrook, CA, detachment of Naval Surface Warfare Center Division Crane, IN.

Executive Correspondence – Letter dated 7/6/2005 to Chairman Principi from Representatives Davis, Hunter, Cunningham, and Filner and Senators Feinstein and Boxer reiterating their strong support for Marine Corps Recruit Depot (MCRD) San Diego.

Letter from an anonymous Air Force Research Laboratory worker to General Lloyd Newton regarding the possible relocation from Mesa, Arizona, to Wright Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio. The letter provides arguments against such a move.

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

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.

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.