The DISAM Journal of International Security Assistance Management. Volume 23, Number 1, Fall 2000
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Our cover feature this quarter discusses the missions and functions of the U.S. Army Security Assistance Command. With 35 years service to the international community, USASAC is the Army organization devoted to the broad range of security assistance materiel programs. It provides total security assistance program management, including planning, delivery and life cycle support of equipment provided to our international partners. In addition USASAC negotiates and implements armaments cooperation agreements, manages export licenses for the Army, and supports emergency assistance and humanitarian relief operations. Our lead article describes in greater detail USASAC's involvement across a wide spectrum of international programs as the command leads the Army toward allied strength in cooperation. Each year we publish extracts from the Congressional Research Service's publication on conventional arms transfer to the developing nations. This annual offering looks at the world trade in arms for the preceding year and puts it into the perspective of the last five years. Containing an analysis of both suppliers as well as purchasers, the report places the U.S. arms transfer program in the context of world trade in weapons. The security assistance organizations produce their engagement plans consistent with other strategic plans prepared by the military and the Department of State. In order that this planning effort not become a sterile drill but a useful aid in conducting business within the SAO, we offer a proposal for the planning process that will institutionalize strategic thinking.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.007 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.138 | 0.037 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".