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Since its entry into force in February 2005, the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) has had many significant achievements. It is one of the most widely ratified treaties within the United Nations; its Conference of the Parties has adopted many high-quality implementation guidelines, and implementation of the policy guidance in the treaty and its guidelines have decreased tobacco consumption and prevalence. Despite the effectiveness of these measures, however, FCTC implementation has been highly uneven across countries. A medium-term strategic plan was launched to clearly articulate a small number of priority areas for action in order to accelerate the pace of progress—theGlobal Strategy to Accelerate Tobacco Control (2019–2025)—but several barriers block its success, including the chronic lack of sustainable, long-term funding. Governments need adequate funds in order to implement FCTC policies and interventions, but many do not have the necessary resources. The global funding gap for tobacco control has been estimated at US$427.4 billion, with no signs of shrinking in the face of the ongoing pandemic. This paper is concerned with the analysis of solutions to the funding gap problem, assessing possibilities according to feasibility, opportunities, and past or potential effectiveness. Existing solutions include Official Development Assistance, FCTC extrabudgetarily funded projects like the FCTC 2030 project and domestic resource mobilisation via tobacco taxation. The paper will also consider new options including pooled funding mechanisms. Ultimately, a combination of solutions must be pursued in order to ensure Parties’ national tobacco control budgets are funded in line with FCTC andGlobal Strategypriorities.

At the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL), glass bead-filled polyamide (a.k.a. nylon) (GFN) is being used frequently for functional parts and systems, built using a laser-based powder bed fusion (PBF) additive manufacturing (AM) system. Since these parts have performance requirements, it is important to understand the mechanical properties of the additively-made GFN as a function of build orientation and build parameters. In addition, the performance of the AM system used to manufacture these parts must be evaluated in order to understand its capabilities, especially in order to determine the dimensional precision and repeatability of features built with this system. This paper summarizes recent APL efforts to characterize the GFN powder, the mechanical properties of parts made with GFN, and the performance of the laser PBF machine while running GFN using an AM test artifact.

Computer network defense systems should be sufficiently integrated to pull data from any information source, model an expert cyber analyst’s decision process, continuously adapt to an evolving cyber threat environment, and amalgamate with industry standard network hardware. Unfortunately, cyber defense systems are generally stovepipe solutions that do not natively integrate disparate network systems. Correlation engines are generally limited in capability, extensibility, and do not evolve with a dynamic cyber threatscape. Current network defense systems mitigate known vulnerabilities, but effective methods of traffic analysis capable of detecting unknown exploits and identifying advanced persistent threats have yet to be developed. Expert analysts can isolate threats by manually aggregating data sources and distinguishing patterns that indicate a compromise, but there are insufficient skilled analysts available to combat the problem. This work demonstrates a process control configuration that can emulate the investigative process of a human cyber security expert into a pseudo cognitive apparatus capable of accessing several network available data sources, determining a network threat, and terminating a connection, in minutes. The investigative process to detect a PHPMyAdmin attack and issue a response was entirely configured in a vector relational data modeling environment. The configuration could detect and respond to multi-part threat specifications. http://archive.org/details/automatedcyberth1094548129 Outstanding Thesis Captain, United States Army Reserve Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited.