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It depends. If you are a US federal government employee, YES, they may reformat it and sell it as long as they credit you as the author.
US military and US federally-employed civilian students are US federal government employees. US copyright protection is not available for any work of the US Government, including those works produced as part of a NPS student's official duties.
Some vendors get around the author crediting by stripping off all front-matter to the Table of Contents and changing the “author” to Naval Postgraduate School; or by converting NPS theses to a new format – Kindle – and adds his name as an editor but credits the actual author.
If you are a non-US federal government employee, probably NO, but IT DEPENDS on your contractual agreement with your employer/agency. Check with your legal counsel and they can issue a cease-and-desist if it is not appropriate. Go to the NPS Students and Copyright to learn more.
Note:
NPS students and their faculty advisors sign thesis/dissertation/capstone release agreements that permit NPS-student authored works to be distributed to NPS and DOD websites in accordance with the security classification(s) and distribution statement(s) selected by the author(s).
Suggestion:
Go to the Amazon page for your thesis/dissertation/report, write a Customer Review, and give people a link to the free version via the NPS Archive: Calhoun and other sources such as DTIC.
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