Government Missions Research Articles

Design and Implementation of a Ka-band Folding Rib Mesh Antenna for CubeSats

In the past decade, CubeSats have undergone a revolution, moving from university research projects to enabling industry opportunities and government missions. In 2014, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology (JPL/Caltech) initiated a research and technology development effort to advance CubeSat communication capabilities. One of the critical thrusts was the Ka-band parabolic deployable antenna (KaPDA). This antenna started with the ambitious goal of fitting a 42 dB, 0.5 m, 35 GHz antenna in a 1.5U canister. At that time, there had been minimal development in high-gain CubeSat antennas, critical for high-data-rate communications and remote sensing science. A Ka-band high-gain antenna would provide a 10,000 times increase in data communication rates over an X-band patch antenna and a 100 times increase over state-of-the-art S-band parabolic antennas. This paper discusses designing, building, integrating, and operating the flight antenna from a mechanical perspective, its final performance, and lessons learned. KaPDA enabled the RainCube mission, the first Earth Science CubeSat to have an active instrument. RainCube was launched in May 2018, making KaPDA the second deployable parabolic antenna to fly on a CubeSat and the first to operate in Ka-band, enabling follow-on opportunities for high-rate antenna communications and remote sensing science.

Analisis Penggunaan Helicopter Stand dalam Menunjang Keamanan dan Keselamatan Penerbangan di Bandar Udara Tjilik Riwut Palangka Raya

Tjilik Riwut Palangka Raya Airport is one of the main gateways in Central Kalimantan province. In 2023, the airport will serve around 40,000 passengers, indicating an increase in aviation activity that requires high efficiency in facility management. Helicopters at Tjilik Riwut Airport have an important role in various operations, including medical evacuation, goods delivery and government missions. Currently, helicopters only land in regular commercial aircraft parking areas, which are not specifically designed for helicopter needs. This can cause a buildup of activity, disrupting flight schedules. This research aims to analyze the needs and benefits of building a Helicopter Stand at Tjilik Riwut Airport, as well as assessing its impact on the smooth running of flights. This research uses qualitative methods and the types of data used are primary data and secondary data. The data collection techniques used in this research are observation, interviews and documentation. By using analytical techniques in the form of data reduction, data presentation and conclusions. Testing the validity of the data used in this research is technical triangulation and source triangulation. The results of this research show that the helicopter stand facilities at Tjilik Riwut Airport are currently not fully adequate, it is necessary to reorganize the area to ensure clearer separation between helicopters and commercial aircraft in order to reduce the potential for accidents and avoid the potential for overlapping with other aircraft in the parking stand area.

CONCEPTUAL MODEL OF A NANOSATELLITE WITH LASER BEAM TRANSMISSION AND ITS IMPORTANCE IN RENEWABLE ELECTRICAL POWER HARVESTING

The concept of placing huge solar-powered satellite systems (SPS) in space represents one of several new technology options that could provide large-scale, green base power to terrestrial markets. NASA has already launched the multi-megawatt SSP systems and wireless power transmission (WPT) for government missions and commercial markets (in space and on the ground). In the new space approach satellite technology Nanosatellites with benefits such as low price, resource use, and compatibility with COTS, have huge potential to be the next generation of renewable electrical solar power harvesting satellite systems. With that in mind, it is important to conduct research and development processes for achieving high-efficiency satellite systems. As a result, an initial conceptual model of the new generation low earth orbit nanosatellite with solar power harvesting to laser beam conversion and transmission sub-system was developed with an estimated solar radiation harvesting calculus, part selection along with the structural scheme and its working principle have been proposed.

EVALUASI PELAKSANAAN KARTU KUSUKA DI UPT PELAYANAN USAHA PERIKANAN KUNDUR

The Ministry of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries, in its government mission, carries out the creation of Maritime and Fisheries Business Actor Cards (KUSUKA). This card is an individual identification card issued by the Ministry of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries of the Republic of Indonesia for maritime and fisheries business actors in Indonesia. This research discusses matters related to the results of the implementation of the KUSUKA card program services at the Kundur District Fisheries Business Services UPT. The aim of this research is to find out the results of the implementation of the KUSUKA card at the Kundur Fisheries Business Services UPT. The approach used in this research is descriptive qualitative using data collection methods in the form of observation, interviews and documentation. The results of this research show that the implementation of the KUSUKA card program for the community at the Kundur District Fisheries Business Services UPT is as expected. The implementation of this program meets expectations based on the following 6 indicators: a). effectiveness: the results achieved have met expectations. b) Efficiency: time and costs are efficient. c). Adequacy: Human resources and facilities/infrastructure are adequate. d). Alignment: program benefits are adequate. e). Responsiveness: service is adequate. f). Accuracy: the program results are useful. However, the effectiveness indicators and efficient indicators still cannot be said to meet expectations, this is because there are problems or obstacles such as the lack of clarity on the time for printing KUSUKA cards which only adjusts the bank's ability to print cards, the functions and benefits of the program have not been fully felt and there is no real change in the lives of the community or fisheries business actors in the Kundur District Fisheries Business Services UPT. Keywords : Public Services, Evaluation, Kusuka Card

Analysis of The Effect of Financial Ratios on ROA In Islamic Commercial Banks in Indonesia

Currently, Islamic banks are growing rapidly, starting in 1983, where BI gave freedom to banks to set interest rates, in order to create a healthy and strong bank, by implementing a profit-sharing system. The potential for the development of Islamic banks is very open, to become a leading bank at the global level. One of the government's missions is to develop the halal industry, making Islamic banks large and powerful in the country with the largest Muslim population in the world. For this reason, research was conducted by analyzing the ratio of finance to profitability at Islamic Banks from 2010 to 2022. The population in the study was 8 out of 14 Islamic banks, which are registered with OJK and have complete financial statements published with purposive sampling. Data analysis method with panel data regression using SPSS 25 and eviews 10. From the results of the t test, it is hypothesized that CAR and FDR have no influence on ROA, while NPF and BOPO have a negative influence on ROA. The variables CAR, FDR, NPF and BOPO simultaneously have a significant influence on the ROA of Islamic Banks for the period 2010 – 2022. The coefficient of determination is 53.5% and the remaining 46.5% comes from factors other than variables in the study.

Influx of Zero-Dose Children During and Post Covid-19 Pandemic: How Core Group Partners Project Supported the Government Mission to Overcome the Challenge in High Priority Sub-Centers in Uttar Pradesh, India

Influx of Zero-Dose Children During and Post Covid-19 Pandemic: How Core Group Partners Project Supported the Government Mission to Overcome the Challenge in High Priority Sub-Centers in Uttar Pradesh, India

Strategi Transformasi Digital LPP TVRI

The television industry is undergoing a digital revolution. Infrastructure-based broadcast services with linear programs in the form of news, sports and entertainment broadcasts at certain times, have experienced the disruption of video streaming and on-demand viewing services based on digital platforms. TVRI as a public broadcasting institution also suffered a similar blow. With the mission of providing television broadcasting services to all corners of the archipelago, TVRI must maintain a balance playing in linear programming to be able to reach remote areas that have not been reached by digital platforms, and definitely digitally transform to secure its position in the TV and video industry market. To be able to digitally transform LPP TVRI requires the right strategy to be able to successfully survive market changes and still be able to carry out the government's mission to deliver TV broadcasts to all corners of the archipelago. This study aims to formulate a digital transformation strategy of LPP TVRI from traditional TV to digital to digitally capable TV. Based on the research conducted, it can be concluded that to develop a strategy in implementing digital transformation, among others, by developing a digital strategy using the framework owned by Sunil Gupta. After that, it can be concluded that the developed digital strategy focuses on building new capabilities, namely to make TVRI a Digital Broadcaster. By applying the Freemium model to certain content

Educate Kermit Roosevelt Through Sport Hunting and Train Him for Government Missions. Roosevelt Scientific Mission to English Equatorial Africa in 1909.

The practice of sport hunting in colonized areas presents a set of knowledge and techniques indispensable to self-control and the domination of territories elsewhere by colonial empires, by their leaders and, more generally, by the political elites of the Northern states. During his scientific mission to English Equatorial Africa in 1909, Theodore Roosevelt responded to a double commission from the Smithsonian Institute and the American Museum in Washington. In this African mission, he brought and trained his youngest son Kermit, aged 20, in an initiatory journey. This article proposes to study this ritual of passage and the practice of sport hunting in the English colonial space as a revelation of the socio-racial hierarchies at work in the territories dominated by the English Empire.

Beef Supply Chain Analysis to Improve Availability and Supply Chain Value Using System Dynamics Methodology

The research focuses on beef commodity where beef demands data continue increasing proportionate or in line with increasing population, national per capita income, and the needs of industrial foods process materials. On the other hand, domestic beef supply tends to decrease so it can’t meet domestic demand. Furthermore, there are problems with fulfilling supplies to the end customer. The effort in solving the problems by improving the supply chain process using a model-driven decision support system, to model the existing system and build new scenarios to increase beef supply chain performance. The model-driven decision support system approaches using a system dynamics model to accommodate key variables or parameters that significantly contribute to the continuity strategic beef supply chain. The results showed a policy scenario with success indicators in the form of optimizing average beef weight values to 300 kgs per cattle and with carcass percentage value at 55% life weight, projecting deficit beef values decreasing in each year. At 2027 deficit value becoming small which is 8,520 tons, which ends up becoming surplus in 2028. The results of the model-driven decision support system output scenario can be functioned as input to the decision-maker to elaborate policy process related to the beef's food sector to achieve food self-sufficiency which one of the government missions.

Strategic communications: the experience of Afghanistan for Ukraine

The article is dedicated to the experience of developing strategic communications in Afghanistan after Taliban regime has lost power and military and humanitarian aid missions came to the country; strengths and weaknesses of strategic communications documents are analyzed, conclusions on success reached in implementing strategic communications are made. The article analyzes strategic communication plans of ISAF NATO, USA Department of Defense and of other international missions active in the country; research papers on this topic were studied. Government efforts in establishing communication with population and negotiation with Taliban by creating GMIC and establishing High Peace Council are described. The paper leads to the following conclusions: implementing information campaigns and communication strategies resulted in positive changes of communication landscape in the country and increasing awareness of the population on activities of the Government and international organisations: double-sided communication with the population remains being poor; counteracting Taliban’s information warfare is established but is not efficient. Further work on effective strategic communication includes deeper inclusion of culture factors, inclusion of opinion leaders, decreasing a say-do gap of Afghan Government and international missions.

Government mission to tackle the links between obesity and deaths/severe illness from COVID-19

Government mission to tackle the links between obesity and deaths/severe illness from COVID-19

Implementasi Disiplin Aparatur Sipil Negara Menurut Peraturan Pemerintah Nomor 53 Tahun 2010 Tentang Disiplin Pegawai Negeri Sipil

The position of Civil Servants (PNS) is vital and determines the success of the government's mission. One of the factors considered important is creating a clean and authoritative state apparatus, namely the discipline of civil servants. To discipline Civil Servants, the government issued Government Regulation No. 53/2010 concerning Civil Servant Discipline. The purpose of this study was to determine and study: (1) the implementation of the Discipline of the State Civil Apparatus at the Cakrabhuwana Airport Office in Cirebon, and (2) the inhibiting factors for the implementation of the Discipline of the State Civil Apparatus at the Cakrabhuwana Airport Office in Cirebon. This research approach is a combination of normative legal research with empirical legal research,.Namely, this research examines data based on existing norms regarding the implementation of Government Regulation Number 53 of 2010 concerning Civil Servant Discipline. All data obtained from the research results were analyzed qualitatively, then presented descriptively based on the existing problem formulations, and finally, a conclusion was drawn. The results showed that: (1) in implementing the work discipline enforcement of employees at the Cirebon Cakrabhuwana Airport Office refers to Government Regulation Number 53 of 2010 concerning Civil Servant Work Discipline. When there are civil servants who violate disciplinary rules, they will be subject to disciplinary sanctions or penalties according to the type of violation committed. The imposition of sanctions or disciplinary penalties for civil servants who violate discipline is carried out by direct superiors as long as they are under their authority, and (2) factors that affect the implementation of discipline enforcement of Civil Servants at the Cirebon Cakrabhuwana Airport Office are divided into 2 (two). First, the supporting factors are the factors of rules (law), facilities and infrastructure, and respect for Civil Servants. Second, the inhibiting factor is the self-awareness of Civil Servants and the budget factor.

Linking standard Economic Account for Forestry and ecosystem accounting: Total forest incomes and environmental assets in publicly-owned conifer farms in Andalusia-Spain

A major problem faced by government as trustee of society charged with conserving the nation's forest environmental asset is that the standard Economic Account for Forestry (EAF) fails to measure the contribution of nature to total forest incomes and environmental assets. In the context of this government mission, the debate arises with regard to how to uncover the contribution of nature to the total forest incomes enjoyed by people through a refined accounting framework which extends the EAF. The latter is applied by the statistics office to estimate the values added of timber, firewood, cork, resin, industrial nut and other non-woody final products of the forest at national/sub-national scale. Bearing in mind this narrow scope of the EAF, this research proposes the application of the experimental Agroforestry Accounting System (AAS), which extends the forest incomes and environmental asset estimates by applying simulated exchange values stated/revealed by consumers for non-market public goods and services. We apply the EAF and AAS frameworks to 12 large publicly-owned protected conifer forest farms which are not available for sale on the competitive land market and which cover an area of 47,262 ha in Andalusia-Spain. In this conifer farm case study, the EAF considers the economic activities of timber, firewood, aromatic plants and residential service. The AAS adds to the EAF activities those of grazing, conservation forestry, hunting, livestock, agricultural crops, livestock-keeper private amenity, fire services, free access recreation, mushrooms, carbon, landscape conservation, threatened wild biodiversity and water supply runoff stored lower down the watershed in public reservoirs. The objectives of this conifer farm case study are, first, to compare the final products and incomes estimated by applying the EAF and AAS frameworks and, second, to measure the sensitivity of conifer farm environmental assets to changes in land ownership rights and discounting rates in accordance with the AAS results. The conifer farm results show total income measured by the AAS is 38 times higher than the EAF net value added (NVA) for the 2010 period. The AAS economic activities of forestry conservation, fire services and landscape conservation activities generate 71% of the conifer farm labour compensation. The AAS opening environmental asset measured at the assumed competitive real baseline discounting rate of 3% is 6371.6 €/ha, which is 3.7 times lower than it would be if the conifer farm was available for sale on the competitive land market. The change in the baseline discounting rate chosen, from 3% to 1.5%, would lead to an increase of 116% in the value of the opening environmental asset. The above results reveal the inconsistent EAF measurement of total conifer farm incomes. The sensitivity analysis underlines the important effects on the environmental asset arising from changes in land ownership rights and discounting rates.

Obesity levels and COVID-19: the Government's mission.

Emeritus Professor Alan Glasper, from the University of Southampton, discusses the Prime Minister's personal campaign to reduce the impact of COVID-19 by addressing rising levels of obesity in society.

THE NEW PUBLIC FINANCE IMPLEMENTATION IN THE PRODUCTION SHARING CONTRACT SCHEME FOR EXPLORATION AND EXPLOITATION OF OIL AND GAS RESOURCE IN INDONESIA

<p>Abstract Indonesia is a country which have oil and gas reserve as one of the country natural resources. Until now, the government management on oil and gas resources remain plays such important role in both strategic aspect as the state income contributor and the energy resilience. The Production Sharing Contract (PSC) Scheme applies in the management system of exploration and exploitation (Upstream) of oil and gas resources that is mandated by the 1945Constitution that should be managed for the greatest people prosperity. The PSC Scheme is a type of collaboration or partnership agreement between Government Institution (Representative) with Private Parties (National or Multi-National Corporation) to mutually explore and exploit the resources for the purpose of the Government mission (to provide people prosperity) in one hand, and to produce added value for the private corporation on the other hand. PSC Scheme has been enabling both parties joint and share genera and technical management aspect, asset management aspect, as well as financial / fiscal aspect encompass, therefore this scheme should be considered as part of the New Public Finance in implementation; Key Words: New Public Finance, Production Sharing Contact, Oil and Gas Resource Exploration and Exploitation.</p><p> </p>

Measuring the Impact of Innovation Activities in Government

As the government increasingly allocates resources to innovation, questions arise as to how innovation organizations measure their performance, and ultimately their effectiveness, in supporting government missions. Innovation organizations are expected to demonstrate their impact. Researchers from the MITRE Corporation assessed how government focused innovation organizations advance innovation and evaluate their results. The research team collected information from a total of 39 government innovation organizations to understand their roles, activities, and measures of success. This article presents MITRE’s findings on the current state of pursuing and measuring innovation in government, as well as recommendations for metrics based on the different types of innovation organizations. MITRE recommends that innovation organizations focus on identifying and collecting outcome metrics that are critical to aligning innovation activities and products with government missions.

Vehicle Data Aggregation from Highway Video of Madurai City Using Convolution Neural Network

Abstract Traffic is one of the key issues in highly populated countries like India. There are many research works going on in the areas of the travel and transportation sector. These sectors having challenges such as traffic monitoring, routing assistance, personalized driving. Nowadays, smart city is one of the Government mission which includes traffic management, crowd management etc. In the recent past, there are many cities received funds from the government of India under the smart city scheme. In this paper, the vehicle data aggregation process is proposed using deep Convolution Neural Network (CNN) particularly, in and around the areas of Madurai city, Tamilnadu, India. The purpose of the location chosen is Madurai city also received funds under a smart city scheme from Indian government. There are certain works are already going on in Madurai city under the smart city project. The real-time traffic video capturing used to raspberry pi B modules camera. To support further into the work, a data aggregation technique is proposed in this work to create a vehicle dataset for the Madurai city to help traffic management, driver assistance, and routing guidance through automation system. In this work, the CNN algorithm detected the different vehicles with 92.9% accuracy. This will be compared with region based CNN algorithm, which detected with 96.4% accurately. Hence it is proven that the region based CNN performs better in vehicle detection. The vehicle data are tabulated from some of the sample videos captured in and around Madurai highways using CNN through MATLAB.

Culture Clash: Conflict and Its Management

Conflict that arises due to culture clash could not be avoided. One of the Slum area that once known as the area of prostitution, Kalijodo, were being transformed by the local government into an area of green open space and also child friendly integrated public spaces. This transformation has a significant impact toward the Kalijodo merchant. These merchants face many and serious conflict. The conflicts due to culture clash and its management that were being faced by Kalijodo merchants are the focus of this research. This research uses a qualitative approach by gathering data and information through observation and in-depth interview. The concept of personal and interpersonal conflict and conflict management model by A.Devito (2011) is used in order to get a comprehend understanding of the conflict that rise, and ways to manage it. This research shows that the Kalijodo merchants faced intrapersonal conflict because they were forced to choose between two difficult option, and also interpersonal conflicts that occurs in two waves. The first wave was during the eviction and renovation (conflicts between Kalijodo merchants), and the second wave was from the moment that the renovation is completed until this present time (conflicts between Kalijodo merchants and newcomer merchants from other district). Furthermore, the conflict management that was applied is the conflict management model of accommodation (I lose, You Win). Kalijodo merchants put aside the personal interests in order to make the local government mission accomplished.

Remote Management of Boundary Protection Devices with Information Restrictions

Boundary Protection Devices (BPDs) are used by US Government mission partners to regulate the flow of information across networks of differing security levels. BPDs provide several critical functions, including preventing unauthorized sharing, sanitizing information, and preventing cyber attacks. Their application in national security and critical infrastructure environments (e.g., military missions, nuclear power plants, clean water distribution systems) calls for a comprehensive load monitoring system that provides resilience and scalability, as well as an automated and vendor neutral configuration management system that can efficiently respond to security threats at machine speed. Their design as one-way traffic control systems, however, presents challenges for dynamic load adaptation techniques that require access to application server performance metrics across network boundaries. Moreover, the structured review and approval process that regulates their configuration and use presents two significant challenges: (1) Adaptation techniques that alter the configuration of BPDs must be predictable, understandable, and pre-approved by administrators, and (2) Software can be installed on BPDs only after completing a stringent accreditation process. These challenges often lead to manual configuration management practices, which are inefficient or ineffective in many cases. The Hammerhead prototype, developed as part of the SHARC project, addresses these challenges using knowledge representation, a rule-oriented adaptation bundle format, and an extensible, open-source constraint solver.

A Roadmap for Advancing the State of the Practice of Model Based Systems Engineering for Government Acquisition

AbstractModel‐Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) is an emerging paradigm for improving the practice of systems engineering, in which integrated sets of digital system models serve as the focal point for knowledge management, technical communication, and data interchange. Adoption of MBSE by Government prime contractors has grown significantly, often motivated by the drive for improved efficiency from the commercial elements of their businesses. Interest in adopting MBSE on the Government side of that interface has also grown, motivated not only by desire for improved efficiency but also by the need for a better approach for managing the complexity of those Government mission enterprises. This roadmap was created as an initial attempt at establishing a shared vision to drive discussions among the Government acquisition community—and the associated community of prime contractors, systems engineering and integration (SE&I) contractors, and Federally Funded Research and Development Centers (FFRDC)—to drive investment and collaboration to improve the state of the practice of MBSE within this community.