Military / Defense

A Chronology of Terrorist Attacks and Other Criminal Actions Against Maritime Targets, September 1983 RAND Study

Background As part of its continuing research on subnational conflict, The Rand Corporation has compiled a number of chronologies of…

March 31, 2017

Nuclear Weapon Characteristics Handbook, September 1990

Background The Nuclear Weapon Characteristics Handbook, dated September 1990, was first requested in June of 2009, and it was not…

March 23, 2017

B-47B/F-86L Aircraft Mishap Report, 5 February 1958

Background The Tybee Island B-47 crash was an incident on February 5, 1958, in which the United States Air Force…

March 5, 2017

Dissent Within the Armed Forces, December 1970

Background Remarks on dissent in the Armed Forces in relation to dissent in American Society. In Armed Forces, dissent takes…

March 2, 2017

Report of the Coast Artillery Board on Project No. 1153, Heavy Antiaircraft Gun, March 9, 1939

Background This document had been classified since 1939, and has never seen the light of day. In fact, at the…

February 20, 2017

Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) Manual 1 and Manual 2

Background Excerpt: The origins of the Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) date from a Navy "General Plan" prepared in 1915,…

January 28, 2017

Naval Criminal Investigative Service Managers’ Internal Control (MIC) Plan, September 2015

Background Overview of the MIC Plan within the Organization: Control Environment Mission The NCIS mission is to conduct criminal, counterintelligence,…

January 28, 2017

National Transportation Safety Board – Aviation Investigation Manual – Major Team Investigations, November 2002

Background NOTE: This manual is a National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) staff product and is intended to provide information and…

January 23, 2017

Memorandums of Understanding (MOUs)

Many government agencies use MoUs to define a relationship between departments and agencies. For example, the NSA may have a MOU…

January 19, 2017

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Communication with Senators John McCain and Carl Levin re: Boston Bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev

Background Tamerlan Anzorovich Tsarnaevwas a terrorist who, with his brother Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, planted bombs at the Boston Marathon on April…

December 28, 2016