2011-1: Dyson Dots by Ken Roy, PE; Robert Kennedy, PE; David E. Fields, Ph.D.
As presented at the Seventh Symposium of the International Academy of Astronautics at Aosta, Italy, July 10-13, 2011. (Public)
2011-2: Shell Worlds by Ken Roy, PE; Robert Kennedy, PE; David E. Fields, Ph.D.
As presented at the Seventh Symposium of the International Academy of Astronautics at Aosta, Italy, July 10-13, 2011. (Public)
2011-3: Interplanetary Radio Transmission through Serial Ionospheric and Material Barriers by David E. Fields, Ph.D., Robert Kennedy, PE, Ken Roy, PE.
As presented at the Seventh Symposium of the International Academy of Astronautics at Aosta, Italy, July 10-13, 2011. (Public)
2009-2d: Green Goo: It's the New Red, White, and Blue by Robert Kennedy, PE
First appeared in print for Earth Day, 2009, with revisions/corrections since. (Public)
2009-1: Shell Worlds: An Approach to Terraforming Moons, Small Planets, Plutoids by Ken Roy, PE; Robert Kennedy, PE; David E. Fields, Ph.D.
As appeared in Journal of the British Interplanetary Society, vol.62, no.1, January 2009. (Public)
2008-1: Chapter 16: Robert A. Heinlein's Influence on Spaceflight by Robert Kennedy, PE
Literary version of presentation at "Reconsidering Sputnik" Conference Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the Space Age, Washington DC, 14 October 2007. (Public)
2004-2: Dead Media Reloaded: A Hypothesis Concerning Writing Systems, Plague, and History by Robert Kennedy, PE
Lecture to the Philosophical Society of Oak Ridge, 09 Jul 2004. (Public)
2003-1: The Normalization of Deviance, or, An Incremental Descent into Bad Judgement originally titled, It Aint Rocket Science and Ballistic Foam by Robert Kennedy, PE
A back o the envelope calculation estimating the physics of the foam strike in the Columbia accident on 01 Feb 2003. As first published on the FPSpace listserver 05 Feb 2003.
As later presented to the Oak Ridge Isochronous Observation Network 07 Jul & 04 Aug 2004
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As later presented to a joint dinner meeting of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers - Oak Ridge & East Tennessee Sections 14 Sep 2004
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2002-2: A Deadly Feast by Robert Kennedy, PE
Economic analysis of certain biological sabotage. (Restricted)
2002-1: BMD w/ERW in LEO (all versions)
by Robert Kennedy, PE. As originally posted to the Friends & Partners in Space listserver a rebuttal to Washington Post article by Bradley Graham, Going Backwards: Nuclear-Tipped Interceptors Studied [subhead] Rumsfeld Revives Rejected Missile Defense Concept which ran on Thursday, April 11, 2002. Later versions also assess the feasibility of ballistic missile defense with exoatmospheric interceptors tipped with neutron bombs, with particular attention to the problems of decoys, MIRVing, biological payloads, and EMP, as well as basing modes, stability and confidence under the OST and CTBT regimes. (Public)
2001-10: Dead Media: A Review of Extinct Communications Mediums by Robert Kennedy, PE
Lecture to the Oak Ridge Institute of Continued Learning, 31 Jan 2002. (Public)
2001-9: Infotech Aspects of the War on Terrorism by Robert Kennedy, PE
Technical, economic, military, political, and social analysis of antiterrorism. (Public)
2001-8: Sneaky Biological Attacks in Fact and Fiction by Robert Kennedy, PE
Review of various biological attacks in fiction or as they actually occurred. (Restricted)
2001-7: Threat Scenarios 7 by Robert Kennedy, PE
Technical, economic, military, political, and social analysis of various asymmetric threats and countermeasures to protect same. (Restricted)
2001-6: Threat Scenarios against Critical Riparian Infrastructure by Robert Kennedy, PE
Technical, economic, military, political, and social analysis of unconventional threats against infrastructure targets on America's rivers and countermeasures to protect same. (Restricted)
2001-5: Asymmetric Threats against America's Nuclear Infrastructure, or, Pennies on the Dollar by Robert Kennedy, PE
Technical, economic, military, political, and social analysis of unconventional, asymmetric threats against nuclear facilities and countermeasures to protect same. (Restricted)
2001-5b: Barrage Balloons by Robert Kennedy, PE
Technical, economic, military, political, social and artistic aspects of reviving the WWI- and WWII-era barrage balloon idea as a countermeasure to protect targets in the United States against 911-type attacks. (Public)
2001-4: 911: A Transforming Moment by Robert Kennedy, PE
An economic and political analysis of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. (Public)
2001-3a: Solar Sails: An Answer to Global Warming? by Ken Roy, PE
Ken Roy's original presentation to STAIF-2001. (Public)
2001-3b: Anti VenuForming Terra by Robert Kennedy, PE
Robert Kennedy's long term cost/benefit analysis of mitigating global climate change via solar sails and simultaneously offloading planetary electricity generation to space, presented at IEEE's famed Asilomar Microcomputer Workshop. (Public)
2001-3c: Mirrors and Smoke: Ameliorating Climate Change with Giant Solar Sails by Robert Kennedy, PE and Ken Roy, PE
Joint article which appeared in the Summer 2001 issue (the Viridian issue) of the Whole Earth Review. (Public)
2001-3e: Mirrors & Smoke & Other Shady Schemes by Robert Kennedy, PE and Ken Roy, PE
as presented at California Polytechnic State University, Pomona (02Nov2001), Stanford University (14Nov2001), and to the Friends of Oak Ridge National Laboratory (21Nov2001). (Public)
1996-3: A Rocket Scientists Reaction to Independence Day by Robert Kennedy, PE
Critique of the truly awful (and dramatically needless) howlers in Independence Day. (Public)
1994-1b: 19 May 1994 Talking Points Memo to Rep. Geo. E. Brown (D-CA) re Amendment to HR 4301 National Defense Authorization Act for 1995 i.e. Milstar by Robert Kennedy, PE
1999-3: To Yuri Koptev - A Modest Proposal by Robert Kennedy, PE
Economic analysis of crashing Mir onto land to maximize souvenir value. (Public)
1989-1: Technological Threats to Civil Liberties by Robert Kennedy, PE
Examination of the possible effects of the confluence of numerous surveillance technologies. First White Paper (technically predates Ultimax), originally published as Douglas Management Paper #8282 by the Douglas Aircraft Company and presented to the IEEE's 15th Annual Asilomar Microcomputer Workshop on 25Apr1989. Strictly speaking, this paper predates the formation of Ultimax Group in 1992, however it is the first non-academic White Paper I ever wrote for its own purpose. (Public)
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