Pamela is also listed in serdp-estcp.org, which GlobalSecurity.org lists as a federal research agency.
If this is a hoax, it's a damned elaborate one.
We’re going to find out. The first thing I’m going to do on Tuesday is print the press-release of this article to a PDF file, send it to dtic.mil, and ask them, “This press release says that you’ve posted this technical report. Why am I not finding it?”
Hopefully by then, prof. McDaniel will have answered up. Maybe somebody fat-fingered the wrong middle initial but how would a person not see that when reviewing their own document? That’s like passing over your name typed “Marc” when it’s “Mark”, how does a person not see that?
Something really sketchy is going on here and I’m going to find out what it is. Personally, I think it’s fraud, waste, and abuse that a person employed by Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command would be working on something like this unless she’s doing it in her spare time. But I guess it really goes to show that overwhelmingly Ph.D.’s get to do whatever they want with little or no supervision. But maybe the question I should really be asking is: does she still work there?