Senator Mitchell made his comment in the wake of a broad compromise that allowed CERCLA to pass both houses of Congress. The final bill deleted much of what was to make the Act "comprehensive," including private actions for damages and medical expenses.3 The Act that finally was signed into law by President Carter authorizes government cleanup of hazardous waste sites, but does not provide for ...

Since the early 1980s, civil airmen have been allowed to correct refractive error (i.e., myopia, hyperopia, astigmatism) with corrective surgery. Prior Federal Aviation Administration research studies have shown that the number of civil airmen with refractive surgery continues to increase. A study that reviewed refractive surgery use in civil airmen for the years 1994-96, reported that the larg...

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The major aim of this research is benchmarking Honeywell Federal Manufacturing &Technologies projects using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) technique and to compare the results with that of published recently in Qing Cao, James J. Hoffman Qing Cao, James J. Hoffman. (2011). A case study approach for developing a project performance evaluation system. International Journal of Project Managem...

He was educated in the Plains public schools in Georgia, attended Georgia Southwestern College and the Georgia Institute of Technology, and ultimately received a Bachelor of Science degree from the United States Naval Academy in 1946. He was the first member of his family ever to go to college, and at the Naval Academy ranked 60th in a class of 820. He later did graduate work in nuclear physics...

Although implicit in the discovery of the Schwarzschild solution 40 years earlier, the issues raised by the theory of what are now known as black holes were so unsettling to physicists of Einstein’s generation that the subject remained in a state of semiclandestine gestation until his demise. That turning point – just half a century after Einstein’s original foundation of relativity theory, and...

Human error has been identified as a dominant risk factor in safety-oriented industries such as air traffic control (ATC). As the capacity and complexity of airspace continues to increase, and as ATC develops more advanced interfaces and computerised support technology, the importance of identifying the human factors leading to human error will increase, and the ability of traditional design pr...

This paper describes the need for, and the development of, an avionics device to provide cockpit display of proximate traffic. The device is targeted at general aviation (GA), and is designed to address the needs of this unique market; namely pilot utility and low cost. Traffic Alert and Collision Avoidance Systems (TCAS) are currently in use by the commercial airlines and are being installed b...

Software safety and security flaws are costly. Defects found in software systems after they are deployed have always been costly to fix. However, the importance placed on software developed today as a key technology for functionality and control of hardware results in even higher costs when defects and errors cause loss of materiel, and in some cases, personnel. Serious safety and security flaw...

Benefits quantification and NAS performance assessment have become very important topics for the aviation weather community. In an era of significant federal government and airline budget austerity for civil aviation investments, it is essential to quantitatively demonstrate delay reduction benefits of improved weather decision support systems. Major FAA initiatives stress the importance of qua...