Edward B. Tomme, D.Phil.

Publication List

 

Monographs and Theses

  • The DISH Network—An Owner’s Manual: A Discussion of All DISH Technical Processes Written for Non-Technical Readers. Unpublished (2013).
  • Air-to-Air Reference Text. U.S. Government Printing Offices at the U.S. Air Force Academy, Holloman Air Force Base, and Sheppard Air Force Base (2002).
  • An Investigation of Dusty Plasmas. D.Phil. Thesis, University of Oxford, England (2000).
  • Toward Coherent Excitation. Masters’ Thesis, University of Texas at Austin (1994).

    Refereed Articles

  • “Efficiently Exploiting the Power of C4ISR through the Optimal Organizing and Training of Combat Support Effects Producers.” Air and Space Power Journal 23(3) (2009) 61-68.
  • “Emphasizing Effect over Domain: Merging Three Organizations to Enhance the Efficacy of Our Nation’s Intelligence Production.” Air and Space Power Journal 23(1) (2009) 83-92.
  • “Expansion or Marginalization: How Effects-Based Organization Could Determine the Future of Air Force Space Command.” Airpower Research Institute, Research Paper 2008-1.
  • “破解战术卫星的神话” (“The Myth of the Tactical Satellite”). 空天力量杂志 (Air & Space Power Journal, Chinese Edition) 1(3) (2007) 71-82.
  • “重新认识汽球的军事价值 — 试析近太空概念” (“Balloons in Today’s Military? — An Introduction to the Near-Space Concept”) (with S.J. Dahl). 空天力量杂志 (Air & Space Power Journal, Chinese Edition) 1(1) (2007) 54-63.
  • “¿Globos Aerostáticos en las Fuerzas Armadas de Hoy?: Una Introducción al Concepto del Espacio Cercano.” (with S.J. Dahl) Air and Space Power Journal en Español 28(2) (2006) 14-25.
  • “The Strategic Nature of the Tactical Satellite.” Airpower Research Institute, Research Paper 2006-01.
  • “The Myth of the Tactical Satellite.” Air and Space Power Journal 20(2) (2006) 89-100.
  • “Balloons in Today’s Military? An Introduction to the Near-Space Concept.” (with S.J. Dahl) Air and Space Power Journal 19(4) (2005) 39-49.
  • “The Paradigm Shift to Effects-Based Space: Near-Space as a Combat Space Effects Enabler.” Airpower Research Institute, Research Paper 2005-01.
  • “Parabolic Plasma Sheath Potentials and Their Implications for the Charge on Levitated Dust Particles.” (with D.A. Law, B.M. Annaratone, and J.E. Allen) Physical Review Letters 85(12) (2000) 2518-2521.
  • “Damped Dust Oscillations as a Plasma Sheath Diagnostic.” (with B.A. Annaratone, and J.E. Allen) Plasma Sources: Science and Technology 9(2) (2000) 87-96.
  • Law, D.A., W.H. Steel, E.B. Tomme, B.M. Annaratone, and J.E. Allen. “Plasma Crystal in a Weak Magnetic Field.” Proceedings of the 14th European Conference on the Atomic and Molecular Physics of Ionised Gases (Malahyde, Ireland), in Europhysics Conference Abstracts, edited by D. Riley, C.M.O. Mahoney, and W.G. Graham, Volume 22H (1998) 78-79.
  • Steel, W.H., D.A. Law, E.B. Tomme, B.M. Annaratone, and J.E. Allen. “Effect of Laser Light on a Plasma Crystal.” Proceedings of the 14th European Conference on the Atomic and Molecular Physics of Ionised Gases (Malahyde, Ireland), in Europhysics Conference Abstracts, edited by D. Riley, C.M.O. Mahoney, and W.G. Graham, Volume 22H (1998) 114-5.
  • “Dust Oscillations in a Plasma Sheath.” (with D.A. Law, W.H. Steel, B.M. Annaratone, and J.E. Allen) Proceedings of the 14th European Conference on the Atomic and Molecular Physics of Ionised Gases (Malahyde, Ireland), in Europhysics Conference Abstracts, edited by D. Riley, C.M.O. Mahoney, and W.G. Graham, Vol 22H (1998) 334-5.
  • “The Problem of the Pullout.” Flying Safety 54(6) (1997) 13-17.

    Unpublished Technical Reports

  • “(U) United States Air Force Cyber Operations: A Repository of Pertinent Documents and Practicing Organizations (TS/SI/TK).” (With Vickie L. Woodard) Report prepared for the Air Force Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Agency (2010).
  • “A General Approach to Spatio-Temporal Correlation Using the Efficacy of Counter-IED Intervention as an Example (U).” Report prepared for the Institute for Defense Analysis and the Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization (JIEDDO) (2011).
  • “An Analysis of the Efficacy of Two Types of Counter-Improvised-Explosive-Device (IED) Interventions in Iraq (U).” Report prepared for the Institute for Defense Analysis and the Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization (JIEDDO) (2010).
  • “Stochastic Interpretation of Relocatable Over-the-Horizon Radar (ROTHR) Tracks and Their Comparison with Airborne Radar Contacts (U).” Report prepared for the Institute for Defense Analysis and the Department of the Navy (2002).
  • “Diffraction Effects on the Relocatable Over-the-Horizon Radar (ROTHR) Shadow in the Andes Mountains: Physical Causes and Tactical Implications for the Drug War (U).” Report prepared for the Institute for Defense Analysis and the Department of the Navy (2001).
  • “Applying Corner Velocity to Critical Altitude Aircraft Recoveries.” Report prepared for HQ Air Education and Training Command, Directorate of Standardization and Evaluation (1997).
  • “Glide Procedures in the T-3A Firefly.” (With Kenneth S. Gurley) Report prepared for HQ Air Education and Training Command, Directorate of Standardization and Evaluation (1995).

    Conference Proceedings

  • Tomme, E.B., D.A. Law, B.M. Annaratone, and J.E. Allen. “The Parabolic Plasma Sheath and Its Application to Dust Levitation Experiments.” Proceedings of the 27th Institute of Physics (Plasma Physics) Conference (Brighton, England) (2000) 18.
  • Tomme, E.B, D.A. Law, W.H. Steel, B.M. Annaratone, and J.E. Allen. “Dust as a Plasma Sheath Diagnostic.” Proceedings of the 26th Institute of Physics (Plasma Physics) Conference (Pitlochry, Scotland) (1999) 61.
  • Tomme, E.B, D.A. Law, W.H. Steel, B.M. Annaratone, and J.E. Allen. “Levitation of Dust from an Electrode in a Plasma.” Proceedings of the 25th Institute of Physics (Plasma Physics) Conference (Oxford, England) (1998) W9.

    Contributing Author

  • Law, D.A., E.B. Tomme, W.H. Steel, B.M. Annaratone, and J.E. Allen. “Dust as a Sheath Diagnostic.” Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Phenomena in Ionized Gases (Warsaw, Poland) (1999) 4-109.
  • Law, D.A., E.B. Tomme, W.H. Steel, B.M. Annaratone, and J.E. Allen. “Particle Charge Measurements in Dusty Plasmas.” Proceedings of the 26th Institute of Physics (Plasma Physics) Conference (Pitlochry, Scotland) (1999) 37.
  • Steel, W.H., D.A. Law, E.B. Tomme, B.M. Annaratone, and J.E. Allen. “Plasma Crystal Interaction with a Laser.” Proceedings of the 26th Institute of Physics (Plasma Physics) Conference (Pitlochry, Scotland) (1999) 73.
  • Steel, W.H., D.A. Law, E.B. Tomme, B.M. Annaratone, and J.E. Allen. “Effect of Infra Red Radiation and Laser Light on a Plasma Crystal.” Proceedings of the 25th Institute of Physics (Plasma Physics) Conference (Oxford, England)