| Near Miss Warhead Technology With Multiple Effects Against Submunition Payloads |
20 JUL 2000 |
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| Authors:
Richard M. Lloyd; RAYTHEON SYSTEMS CO TEWKSBURY MA
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 | Direct hit missile technology over the last 15 years has significantly reduced miss distance distributions against ballistic missile payloads. With this significant decrease in miss distance, future warhead technologies do not need to extend out to large miss distances to kill targets. These new concepts are only required to expand with high spray density clouds of deployed mass. A new class of warhead technologies coined ... |
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| Software Fault Tolerance for Parallel Signal Processors |
19 JUL 2000 |
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| Authors:
Paul Monticciolo; Rathin Putatunda; Jeremy Kepner; Nathan Doss; MASSACHUSETTS INST OF TECH LEXINGTON LINCOLN LAB
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| Military combat weapon systems are becoming increasingly reliant on advanced multiprocessor computer architectures to execute powerful real-time signal processing algorithms. These multiprocessor computer architectures must meet stringent system reliability, availability, and maintainability requirements. This paper addresses software-based fault tolerance techniques that can leverage inherent capabilities of multiprocessor computers to minimize overall system hardware redundancy requirements and provide quick, flexible fault detection, isolation, and ... |
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| US-Led Cooperative Theater Missile Defense in Northeast Asia challenges and Issues |
JUL 2000 |
37 pages |
| Authors:
Rex R. Kiriah; AIR WAR COLL MAXWELL AFB AL
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 | On 31 August 1998, North Korea flight-tested a new, three-stage, medium-range ballistic missile (MRBM)/space launch vehicle (SLV) referred to by Western analysts and reporters as the Taepo Dong- 1. The Taepo Dong- 1 traversed a range of approximately 1,000 miles on a trajectory consistent with a satellite launch, which took it across the Japanese archipelago. Its first stage fell into the Sea of Japan, the second stage landed ... |
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| National Missile Defense (NMD) Deployment. Final Environmental Impact Statement, Volume 1 of 4: Chapters 1-3 |
JUL 2000 |
605 pages |
| Authors:
ARMY SPACE AND MISSILE DEFENSE COMMAND HUNTSVILLE AL
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| This EIS was prepared in accordance with the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), to analyze the potential environmental consequences of the No-action Alternative and Proposed Action. The No-action Alternative is not to deploy the NMD system. If the deployment decision made is not to deploy, the NMD program would use the time to enhance the existing technologies of the various system elements. The Proposed Action would be to deploy the ... |
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| Guidance Trades for Interceptors Not Constrained by Ground-Based Radar |
JUN 2000 |
11 pages |
| Authors:
Owen L. Deutsch; CHARLES STARK DRAPER LAB INC CAMBRIDGE MA
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| Virtually all U.S. ballistic missile interceptor designs under development utilize terminal seekers that are cued by high-resolution, surface- based radars. The radar is used for target tracking leading to a fire-control solution, for midcourse target state updates and for end-game target discrimination. New space-based sensor systems such as SBIRS-low are seen as an adjunct that can be used to achieve range extension by cueing of ... |
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| Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) and Space: A Framework to Help Understand the Issues |
JUN 2000 |
92 pages |
| Authors:
Roland Van Deventer; AIR UNIV MAXWELL AFB AL SCHOOL OF ADVANCED AIRPOWER STUDIES
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| As a smaller Air Force transitions to an Aerospace Force to start the new millennium, space offers a vantage point where no point on Earth is denied to a sensor system. Joint Vision 2010 describes leveraging technological opportunities to achieve information superiority to enable full spectrum dominance. A key component of information superiority is airborne command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (C4ISR) assets. In a time of budget ... |
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| The Missile Technology Control Regime, American Theater Ballistic Missile Defense Efforts And CINC Planning In The Middle East and South Asia |
15 MAY 2000 |
25 pages |
| Authors:
Joseph F. Cuadroado; NAVAL WAR COLL NEWPORT RI
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| The United States is expending billions of dollars to obtain reliable antiballistic missile defenses (ASM) at the theater and national levels. The new defenses are designed to meet the expanding threat of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) delivery by missile on the American homeland, American forces overseas, and American allies. The U.S. argues that the development and deployment of ABM defenses is aimed at rogue states, ... |
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| Focusing the Lens: A Framework for National Security Decision-Making With a Case Study of National Missile Defense |
01 MAY 2000 |
105 pages |
| Authors:
Charles D. Lutes; Suzanne M. Vautrinot; Foster P. Payne Ii; JOHN F KENNEDY SCHOOL OF GOVERNMENT CAMBRIDGE MA
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| Can decision-makers determine whether the timing is favorable before pursuing a specific course of action in implementing a national security program, particularly an innovation that requires simultaneous changes in technology, organization, strategy and policy? National security innovators have no problem inventing a "very clever pudding," but knowing when the pudding will be cooked becomes a more difficult task. To answer such a question, this paper develops the Lens Framework: a ... |
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| Missile Defense: Schedule for Navy Theater Wide Program Should Be Revised to Reduce Risk |
MAY 2000 |
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| Authors:
GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE WASHINGTON DC NATIONAL SECURITY AND INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS DIV
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| Mixed Strategies for the Interception of Blind Highly Maneuvering Targets |
28 APR 2000 |
38 pages |
| Authors:
Josef Shinar; Tal Shima; TECHNION - ISRAEL INST OF TECH HAIFA
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| This Annual Technical Report, being the final report on a long-term investigation, has two objectives. It describes the technical effort performed in the last year and also summarizes the results of the entire (two and half years) investigation with an outline of the directions for future research. Most missile guidance laws were developed using linearized two-dimensional models assuming constant speed and maneuverability. Simulation results demonstrated ... |
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| Digitizing the Battlefield |
17 APR 2000 |
27 pages |
| Authors:
Christopher R. Seacord; ARMY WAR COLL CARLISLE BARRACKS PA
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| In 1990-91 the United States Armed Forces engaged in what many believe to have been its first information war. The many displays of technology were but a precursor to the new force known as Force XXI. Since the early 90's the U.S. Army has been right sizing and has looked for ways to make its force more lethal and survivable. This search has lead to the ... |
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| Theater Missile Defense in Japan: Implications for the U.S.-China-Japan Strategic Relationship |
10 APR 2000 |
34 pages |
| Authors:
Patrick M. O'Donogue; ARMY WAR COLL CARLISLE BARRACKS PA
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| Japanese agreement to cooperate with the United States on the development and deployment of a theater missile defense (TMD) raises complex issues that question the economic, political, and security priorities in the Northeast Asian region and beyond. The principal questions concern technology transfer, burden-sharing, and the security relationships among the major actors in the region; worries about arms control and proliferation; countering weapons of ... |
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| Conventional Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles - New Weapon, New World |
07 APR 2000 |
32 pages |
| Authors:
Jeffrey A. Randorf; ARMY WAR COLL STRATEGIC STUDIES INST CARLISLE BARRACKS PA
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| The U.S. Air Force is developing technology to place a variety of non-nuclear weapon payloads on intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs). These conventional ballistic missiles (CBM) would provide indirect fire with a quick reaction capability on fixed and potentially mobile targets. The use of these weapons necessitates a change in international notification policy and climate for long range missile launches from the United States. The near-term ... |
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| A Lidar for Remote Sensing of Optical Turbulence |
APR 2000 |
45 pages |
| Authors:
W. R. Dagle; M. S. Belen'kii; G. G. Gimmestad; D. W. Roberts; J. M. Stewart; APPLIED TECHNOLOGIES INC LONGMONT CO
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| Atmospheric turbulence affects the performance of missile defense platforms, such as the Airborne Laser (ABL). To understand the results of laser propagation tests on both the horizontal and inclined propagation paths, and to validate atmospheric turbulence prediction models, the vertical profile of the refractive index structure parameter is required. There is no current accepted lidar method for measuring profiles of the refractive index structure parameter. ... |
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| Accomplishing the Mission of National Missile Defense with Current Technology |
MAR 2000 |
86 pages |
| Authors:
Michael Criss; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA
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| The Purpose of this thesis is to evaluate the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization's proposals for a National Missile Defense (NMD). This thesis compares the costs of missile systems that will provide a NMD, such as Patriot Advanced Capability - 3 (PAC-3), Navy Area (SM-2 Block WA), Theater High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD), Navy Theater-Wide (SM-3), and the Ground-Based Interceptor (GBI). The data gathered for this thesis ... |
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| Screen Dispositions of Naval Task Forces Against Anti-Ship Missiles |
MAR 2000 |
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| Authors:
Erhan Aydin; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA
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| Ship defense in convoy operations against Anti-Surface Missiles (ASM) has been an important aspect of Naval Warfare for the last two decades. Countries in a state of conflict often conduct threatening operations in their own territories in order to slow or stop the enemy merchant ship traffic through the straits or littoral waters. Such littoral scenarios, the quantity and capability of ASM's in non-NATO countries pose a ... |
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| Russian Decision-Making and Options Regarding U.S. National Missile Defense |
MAR 2000 |
85 pages |
| Authors:
Eric K. Wright; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA
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| This thesis analyzes Russian policy regarding prospective U.S. decisions on the deployment of a limited National Missile Defense (NMD) system. Russia's critical position on U.S. NMD is a product of its security concerns, desire for national prestige, and sense of pragmatism. Russia's responses to date-attempts to influence international opinion and the policies of foreign governments against U.S. NMD-reflect these concerns and the limits of Russia's ... |
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| Open System Design and Evolutionary Acquisition Application To The National Missile Defense Family of Radars |
MAR 2000 |
9 pages |
| Authors:
Orazio A. Di Marca; Stephen B. Rejto; Thomas Gomez; ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS CENTER HANSCOM AFB MA
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| The traditional acquisition process is complex and lengthy. The process does not allow appropriate user interaction/feedback and often, due to its extended period of performance, continuity in program office personnel is lost. Developments usually experience schedule slips and cost over runs. Traditional acquisitions usually develop closed (stove piped) systems employing "custom" component with "tightly coupled" software and hardware. The developments lack open system architectures ... |
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| Filtering Strategies For Spiraling Targets |
MAR 2000 |
13 pages |
| Authors:
Paul Zarchan; Dimitrios Lianos; ARMY SPACE AND MISSILE DEFENSE COMMAND HUNTSVILLE AL
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| Intentional or unintentional spiraling maneuvers on the part of a tactical ballistic missile target can make it particularly difficult for a pursuing missile to hit. The paper first reviews why it is difficult to hit a spiraling target with proportional navigation guidance. It is then shown that by using a special purpose linear Kalman filter that is specifically tuned for a spiral maneuver in conjunction with ... |
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| Frequency Domain Signal Processing for Acoustic Sensors |
15 FEB 2000 |
14 pages |
| Authors:
John A. Dennis; Tim A. Patterson; Ilya Schiller; RADIANCE TECHNOLOGIES INC HUNTSVILLE AL
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| Report developed under SBIR contract for topic BMDO99-003A. This contract effort demonstrated the feasibility of separating cruise missile class targets when there are multiple targets observed by a ground positioned acoustic sensor. Several programs (e.g., Steel Rattler, FASDR) have addressed the use of small, remotely deployed acoustic sensors for collecting early warning and rough track on cruise missiles. Typically, the quality of track expected is not ... |
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| Streetfighter, Theater Missile Defense, and Space Blockade, A Marriage Made for the Heavens |
08 FEB 2000 |
34 pages |
| Authors:
Steven Buckley; NAVAL WAR COLL NEWPORT RI JOINT MILITARY OPERATIONS DEPT
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| This paper will discuss the increasing likelihood of an attack in the form of a high-altitude nuclear detonation. It will address orbital dynamics and nuclear phenomenology, our vulnerabilities to such effects, the probable impact on our satellite assets, military forces, and civil infrastructure and preventative radiation hardening methods. Also presented is the continued threat from the proliferation of missiles and nuclear weapons, collaborations of "rogue" States and ... |
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| Current Joint Doctrine and the Area Air Defense Commander (AADC): Are WeMaximizing Jointness |
08 FEB 2000 |
29 pages |
| Authors:
James L. Cook; NAVAL WAR COLL NEWPORT RI JOINT MILITARY OPERATIONS DEPT
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| The Joint Force Commander (JPC) relies on joint doctrine for assistance in establishing the appropriate command structure to maximize JTAMD effectiveness and efficiency. Unfortunately, current joint doctrine fails to provide the JFC sufficient guidance with respect to the Area Air Defense Commander (AADC) organizational structure; the command relationship between the Joint Force Air Component Commander (JFACC), AADC and JFC; and clear delineation of JFACC, AADC, ... |
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| Joint Theater Missile Defense: The Problem with Active Defense Doctrine |
08 FEB 2000 |
25 pages |
| Authors:
Bruce W. Barnhill; NAVAL WAR COLL NEWPORT RI
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| In today's dynamic and complicated environment of Joint Theater Missile Defense (JTMD) current doctrine provides ambiguous guidance to Theater Commanders in Chief (CINC) or Joint Force Commanders (JFC) in the proper establishment of JTMD priorities for theater assets. Currently there is no doctrinal system established, to provide Theater Commanders the guidance essential to properly employ of those JTMD assets to counter an ever-growing missile ... |
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| Short Range Air Defense in Army Divisions: Do We Really Need It |
01 FEB 2000 |
29 pages |
| Authors:
Charles A. Anderson; ARMY WAR COLL CARLISLE BARRACKS PA
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| Ever since the Soviet threat collapsed, coupled with the demonstrated, overwhelming, capability of our air forces during numerous operations in the 1990s, the relevance of the Short Range Air Defense (SHORAD) force in Army divisions has been questioned by senior leaders. With a gap growing between requirements and funding, compounded by the recent medium- brigade initiative, options and tradeoffs are being considered for the ... |
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| GaN/AlGaN Devices for Space-Based Defense Systems |
27 JAN 2000 |
22 pages |
| Authors:
Peter Bletzinger; Hadis Morkoc; INNOVATIVE SCIENTIFIC SOLUTIONS INC BEAVERCREEK OH
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| Report developed under SBIR contract for topic BMDO99-005. The objective of this effort was to design and develop GaN MODFETs with minimal semiconductor volume to minimize radiation damage, particularly due to neutron radiation. High-quality GaN and AlN films were grown on Si and sapphire; MODFETs were fabricated on sapphire which exhibited a transconductance of approx. 150 MS/mm. We succeeded in selectively removing Si substrates using an ... |
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| Emerging Threats, Force Structures, and the Role of Air Power in Korea |
2000 |
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| Authors:
Natalie W. Crawford; Chung-in Moon; RAND CORP SANTA MONICA CA
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| North Korea's ballistic missile program, the Theater Missile Defense (TMD) debate, and ongoing discussions concerning South Korea's next-generation combat aircraft have combined to heighten awareness of the critical importance of aerospace power. In an effort to assess these and other related issues, the Air Power Program (APP) based at the Center for International Studies at Yonsei University, together with Project AIR FORCE (PAF) at RAND ... |
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| Instrumentation and Methodology for the Determination of Hit Point in Missile Defense Flight Tests |
2000 |
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| Authors:
Robert Becker; Gary Paderewski; Darryl Easterling; James Wilbeck; ARMY SPACE AND MISSILE DEFENSE COMMAND HUNTSVILLE AL
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| Lethality, the ability to destroy a target's nuclear, chemical, biological, or high explosive payload, can be critically dependent on where a Hit-to-Kill interceptor impacts a target. The Photonic Hit Indicator (PHI) was developed to measure, in situ, hit points that occur in flight-testing. The PHI uses a fine mesh of optical fibers that cover the target's surface. Each fiber is illuminated by a miniature laser ... |
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| Hitting a Bullet with a Bullet A History of Ballistic Missile Defense |
2000 |
76 pages |
| Authors:
Kenneth P. Werrell; AIR UNIV MAXWELL AFB AL AIRPOWER RESEARCH INST
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| What can we glean from this study of ballistic missile defense initiatives? As with so many other new weapons systems, missile offense took an initial lead over missile defense. Over the past 40 years this gap has grown. For, at the same time offensive ballistic missile systems have developed technically (with marked advances in range, power, and reliability) and spread geographically, defensive weapons have demonstrated ... |
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| Application of Low-Cost Turbo-Jet Powered Interceptors for Cruise Missile Defense |
2000 |
10 pages |
| Authors:
Gary T. Jimmerson; Hans J. Dall; ARMY AVIATION AND MISSILE COMMAND REDSTONE ARSENAL AL
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| With the proliferation of highly accurate long-range cruise missiles and the demonstrated capabilities of this type of weapon, defense against this threat is becoming an essential military requirement. Furthermore, the inherent characteristics of evolving cruise missiles, such as low cost, long range, payload mix and numerous launch options, are making cruise missiles a weapon of choice for many military planners. As a result, potential adversaries could soon possess sufficiently large ... |
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| National Missile Defense: High-Technology in a Strategic Vacuum |
2000 |
43 pages |
| Authors:
John G. Fox; NATIONAL WAR COLL WASHINGTON DC
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| This essay is an attempt to return issues of national security strategy to the center of the debate over NMD deployment. After briefly reviewing the threat to the United States from ICBMs launched by so-called rogue-states and the technical characteristics of the NMD system intended for deployment if the President so decides, the author examines the broader strategic implications of NMD deployment for the United States. He argues that the ... |
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| National Missile Defense 2015: An Unintended Consequence |
2000 |
17 pages |
| Authors:
Keith Johnson; NATIONAL DEFENSE UNIV WASHINGTON DC
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| Two of the most enduring vital national interests are the protection of U.S. citizens and our territory. Driven by these interests, the United States began testing a limited national missile defense system intended to protect the country from missile attacks by "rogue" states. By the summer of 2000, missile testing for the national missile defense (NMD) proved inconclusive. This forced President Clinton to defer the deployment decision to the next ... |
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| Simulation-based Agent Support in a Synthetic Team-based C2 Task Environment |
2000 |
13 pages |
| Authors:
Linda R. Elliott; Scott Chaiken; Mathieu Dalrymple; Plamen Petrov; Alexander Stoyen; VERIDIAN BROOKS AFB TX
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| In our long-term program of research in command and control (C2) teamwork and performance, we have extensively analyzed the roles, responsibilities, and interdependencies of Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) Weapons Director (WD) teams, using a variety of methods. The AWACS WD team serves as a vital airborne C2 node, providing airborne surveillance and command, control, and communications functions for tactical and air defense forces. They detect, identify, track, and ... |
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| Ballistic Missile Defense Organization Technology Selection Process for the Discriminating Interceptor Technology Program Laser Radar |
17 DEC 1999 |
29 pages |
| Authors:
Paul J. Granetto; Garold E. Stephenson; Eric B. Edwards; Harvey I. Gates; Judith A. Heck; INSPECTOR GENERAL DEPT OF DEFENSE ARLINGTON VA
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| We conducted the audit in response to a request from Congressman Bud Cramer to review a constituent complaint that the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization did not fairly conduct the technology selection process for the Discriminating Interceptor Technology Program laser radar. The overall audit objective was to determine the validity of a complaint concerning the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization technology selection process for laser radar ... |
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| Exploratory Model Analysis of the Space Based Infrared System (SBIRS) low Global Scheduler Problem |
DEC 1999 |
176 pages |
| Authors:
Brian L. Morgan; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA
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| Proliferation of theater ballistic missile technologies to potential U.S. adversaries necessitates that the U.S. employ a defensive system to counter this threat. The system that is being developed is called the Space-Based Infrared System (SBIRS) "System of Systems". The SBIRS Low component of the SBIRS "System of Systems" will track strategic and theater ballistic missiles from launch to reentry and relay necessary cueing data to missile ... |
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| On the Choice of the Coordinate System and Tracking Filter for the Track-while-scan Mode of an Airborne Pulse Doppler Radar |
DEC 1999 |
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| Authors:
Steven Zollo; Branko Ristic; ELECTRONICS RESEARCH LAB SALISBURY (AUSTRALIA)
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| A comparison between tracking in spherical coordinates using coupled range and angle filters and tracking with debiased consistent converted measurements in 3D Cartesian coordinates is presented. The sensor is an airborne pulse Doppler radar (APDR) with typical measurements being range, range-rate, azimuth and elevation. The report investigates the tracking accuracy (position, range-rate and vertical/horizontal heading) achievable in the Medium and High PRF mode of an ... |
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| U.S. Strategic Nuclear Policy and Force Structure: Three Analytical Approaches |
DEC 1999 |
138 pages |
| Authors:
Russell H. Wagner; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA
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| Since the end of the Cold War, the United States and Russia have made significant strides in reducing their nuclear arsenals. While the current political climate is significantly less tense than during the Cold War era, Russia is still the only country capable of destroying the United States. This thesis examines the current requirements shaping U.S. nuclear strategy, policy, and force structure in the three leading ... |
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| High Power Radio Frequency Weapons: A Potential Counter to U.S. Stealth and Cruise Missile Technology |
DEC 1999 |
43 pages |
| Authors:
John A. Brunderman; AIR WAR COLL MAXWELL AFB AL
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| The emergent technology of high power radio frequency in a directed energy role has huge potential for military use, in both offensive and defensive roles. There are many applications for this type of technology, from minesweeping to anti-aircraft artillery to unmanned combat aerial vehicles. Given the current U.S. dominance in precision attack and air combat capability, new technologies might serve to challenge this advantage if an enemy can exploit them. ... |
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| Ground Based Intercept of a Ballistic Missile: Simulation Truth/Model Interface |
03 NOV 1999 |
32 pages |
| Authors:
Kyle M. Cone; AIR FORCE INST OF TECH WRIGHT-PATTERSONAFB OH
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| As the simulation truth/model interface architect, I was charged with generating truth data for an intercontinental ballistic missile in flight. Further, I was responsible for presenting the Ground Based Interceptor simulation in a visual format. I used the Satellite Tool-Kit software to present the results of the simulation in a detailed, graphical format, and I used the supplementary Missile Flight Tool module to model an intercontinental ballistic ... |
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| AGARD Flight Test Techniques Series. Volume 16. Introduction to AirborneEarly Warning Radar Flight Test. (Introduction aux essais en vol des Radars Aeroportes d'Alerte Lointaine) |
NOV 1999 |
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| Authors:
J. M. Clifton; F. W. Lee; ADVISORY GROUP FOR AEROSPACE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT NEUILLY-SUR-SEINE (FRANCE)
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| During periods when military budgets and aircraft fleet sizes are shrinking, systems that serve to cost effectively increase the utility of the remaining weapons can still undergo procurement growth. The increased situational awareness and battle field management provided by Airborne Early Warning (AEW) radar is one such force multiplier. The primary role of an AEW aircraft is the long-range detection of airborne targets. As ... |
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| Joint Doctrine for Countering Air and Missile Threats |
19 OCT 1999 |
64 pages |
| Authors:
JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF WASHINGTON DC
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| This publication provides the guidance necessary to conceptualize, plan, coordinate, and conduct successful joint operations to counter air and missile threats throughout the range of military operations. |
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| Microelectronics Status Analysis and Secondary Part Procureability Assessment of the THAAD Weapon System |
OCT 1999 |
8 pages |
| Authors:
Gary A. Maddux; ALABAMA UNIV IN HUNTSVILLE
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| The Manufacturing Science and Technology Division (MS&TD), AMCOM has the mission and function of providing microelectronic technology assessments, and producibility and supportability analyses for the THAAD weapon system. MS&TD evaluates the impacts of nonavailability of microelectronic parts on the life cycle supportability of the THAAD weapon System and evaluates the producibility of the THAAD weapon system. MS&TD required engineering support in performing microelectronic technology and ... |
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| Free Gyro Imaging IR Sensor in Rolling Airframe Missile Application |
OCT 1999 |
16 pages |
| Authors:
R. F. Walter; RAYTHEON MISSILE SYSTEMS CO TUCSON AZ
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| The Rolling Airframe Missile (RAM) provides the US and German Navies with a quick reaction, high firepower defense against Anti-Ship Missiles (ASM) such as the Exocet and SSN-22. RAM incorporates passive RF and IR sensors allowing track and guidance against both radiating and non-radiating threats. The "fire and forget" feature coupled with RAMs quick reaction protects ships against dense raids of ASMs. RAM has achieved exceptional accuracy and reliability during ... |
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| Multiservice Procedures for Joint Theater Missile Target Development |
OCT 1999 |
110 pages |
| Authors:
ARMY TRAINING AND DOCTRINE COMMAND FORTMONROE VA
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| The quote for Basil Collier reminds us that conducting offensive operations against theater missiles has never been an easy task. The Coalition's troubles in finding Saddam Hussein's Scuds during DESERT STORM are reminiscent of the difficulties faced by the Allies in locating Nazi V-1 cruise missiles and V-2 ballistic missiles during World War II. Today our National Military Strategy recognizes that 'the proliferation of theater missiles is one of the ... |
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| Electronic Warfare Test |
SEP 1999 |
137 pages |
| Authors:
Darrell L. Wright; JOINT ADVANCED DISTRIBUTION SIMULATION/JOINT TEST AND EVALUATION ALBUQUERQUE NM
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| The tasking to conduct an ADS-based EW test called for an airborne self-protection jammer (SPJ) as the system under test (SUT). The emphasis of the EW Test was on the performance of the ADS components and their contribution or impact to testing rather than on the performance of the SPJ pod itself. Measures of performance (MOPs) for the SPJ were identified as measures that would most likely ... |
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| From Theater Missile Defense to Antimissile Offensive Actions: A Near-term Strategic Approach for the USAF |
SEP 1999 |
69 pages |
| Authors:
Merrick E. Krause; AIR UNIV MAXWELL AFB AL SCHOOL OF ADVANCED AIRPOWER STUDIES
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| What strategic approach should the United States Air Force (USAF) take toward theater missile defense (TMD) and antimissile offensive actions in the near term? An introductory chapter presents the methodology used in the study, which involved historical and literature reviews, interviews, and a qualitative comparison of current and proposed weapons systems, capabilities, and doctrine. Chapter 2 reviews milestones of missile and antimissile, diplomatic, and political history to establish a basis ... |
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| Defense Applications of Signal Processing |
27 AUG 1999 |
233 pages |
| Authors:
Alan Lindsey; Bill Moran; Jim Schroeder; Mark Smith; Lang White; GEORGIA INST OF TECH ATLANTA CONTINUING EDUCATION DEPT
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| The 1999 Workshop on Defense Applications of Signal Processing (a.k.a DASP99) brought together approximately sixty leading researchers in defense signal processing from Australia and the United States on August 22-28 for technical presentations and informal discussions. Topics represented at the workshop included situation awareness, target recognition, sensor technology, support vector machines (SVM), time-frequency analysis, and GPS surveillance. An important product of the workshop is the initiation ... |
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| Manufacturing Research for Multispectral Missile Seekers and Millimeter Wave/Infrared Polarimetry |
AUG 1999 |
7 pages |
| Authors:
Gary A. Maddux; ALABAMA UNIV IN HUNTSVILLE RESEARCH INST
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| The Systems Engineering and Production Directorate has the mission and function of evaluating new technologies and determining the impacts of same on the producibility and supportability of MICOM missile systems. SEPD required engineering support in performing assessments on the above technologies. The Systems Management and Production Laboratory at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) Research Institute (RI) was tasked to provide this engineering support and analytical capability. |
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| Microelectronic Status Analysis and Secondary Part Procureability Assessment of the THAAD Weapon System |
AUG 1999 |
8 pages |
| Authors:
Gary A. Maddux; ALABAMA UNIV IN HUNTSVILLE
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| The Industrial Operations Division (IOD), SEPD, RDEC, AMCOM has the mission and function of providing microelectronic technology assessments, and producibility and supportability analyses for the THAAD weapon system. IOD evaluates the impacts of nonavailability of microelectronic parts on the life cycle supportability of the THAAD weapon system and evaluates the producibility of the THAAD weapon system IOD required engineering support in performing microelectronic technology and availability assessments for several hundred ... |
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| Summary of Research 1998, Interdisciplinary Academic Groups |
AUG 1999 |
121 pages |
| Authors:
Dan Boger; James Powell; Rudolf Panholzer; James Eagle; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA
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| This report contains information of research projects in the interdisciplinary: (1) groups, Command, Control, and Communications Academic Group, (2) Information Systems Academic Group, (3) Information Warfare Academic Group, (4) Space Systems Academic Group, and (5) Undersea Warfare Academic Group. A list of recent publications is also included which consists of conference presentations and publications, books, contributions to books, published journal papers, technical reports, and ... |
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| National Security Report: Background and Perspective on Important National Security and Defense Policy Issues. Volume 3, Issue 2, August 1999. Communiques and Treaties are Poor Shields: Imp |
AUG 1999 |
4 pages |
| Authors:
Floyd Spence; HOUSE NATIONAL SECURITY COMMITTEE WASHINGTON DC
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| On June 20,1999, President Clinton and Russian President Boris Yeltsin agreed to the "Joint Statement Between the United States and the Russian Federation Concerning Strategic Offensive and Defensive Arms and Further Strengthening of Stability" that called for discussions later this summer on a third Strategic Arms Reduction Talks (START III) treaty and on strengthening the Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty. According to Administration officials, these discussions will ... |
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Antimissile Defense Systems
