Engineering topics
Publications and source records attributed to Dunn, D. A..
Spectrum management, models for evaluating communication systems, the communications regulatory environment, expert prediction and consensus, remote sensing, and manned space operations research are discussed.
Public sector R and D evaluation, NASA technology transfer, market-oriented approaches to national science policy, and markets with implications for technology transfer are discussed.
Spectrum management, models for evaluating communications systems, and implications of communications regulations for NASA are considered as major parts of communications policy. Marketing LANDSAT products in developing countries, a political systems analysis of LANDSAT, and private financing and operation of the space operations center (space station) are discussed. Investment requirements, risks, government support, and other primary business and management considerations are examined.
National science and technology policy is concerned with societal choices with respect to the rate and directions of technological change and the adoption and use of new technology in society. Such policy choices occur primarily in connection with management of the creation, dissemination, and use of scientific and technical information. Two categories of policy instruments discussed are market-oriented approaches, and direct public action. Possibilities for increased use of market-oriented approaches that can provide benefits to society in the form of an increased rate of innovation and of more 'appropriate' technology, better suited to the needs of consumers are indicated.
Shot noise in one-dimensional planar Lagrangian computer simulation of electron diode
Computer techniques for simultaneously solving motion equations of interacting particles - plasma physics
Static theory of beam-generated plasma derived for beams filling space between two plane conducting walls, predicting plasma density and potential distribution