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Islamic Radicalism in North Africa Force Works, For Now
"Islamic radicalism in North Africa has three faces-a religious one which seeks through personal piety, prayer, and preaching to make society more "just"; a reformist one which calls for legitimate political action using democratic, electoral means to change state and society from within; and an extremist face, which believes that only violent confrontation and destruction of the state can establish a new Islamic world order. Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco, Libya, and Egypt tend to regard the latter two as equally dangerous to regional and regime stability. Their concerns about regional security, if radical Islamists were to gain power, grew in 1991 when an Islamist political party-the Islamic Salvation Front (FIS)-scored a major election victory and appeared to be on the verge of gaining power in Algeria. Over the subsequent four years, Algeria's neighbors watched in growing horror while the military-dominated Algerian government canceled elections, outlawed the FIS, and the country slipped into the chaos of urban terrorism and civil war. Determined not to repeat Algiers' mistake in allowing an Islamist party access to the political process, Tunis, Rabat, and Cairo sought to eliminate the opportunities for radical Islamist politicians to force a confrontation with the government, legally or illegally. Even Libya's Muamar Qadhafi, a long-time sponsor of Islamic 'liberation' movements, was not immune from Islamist-inspired opposition riots in several towns. Their answer was similar to that of the Algerian government-exclusion from the political process and containment through intimidation and force."
National Defense University. Institute for National Strategic Studies
Yaphe, Judith Share, 1944-; Lewis, William Hubert, 1928-
1996-10
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Freight Transportation in Pennsylvania: Selected Data from Federal Sources
"This state-specific report presents information from the major federal databases related to state freight movements. Along with the tables generated for each state, this report gives descriptions of the databases, information on access and formats, and contact points."
United States. Bureau of Transportation Statistics
1996-10
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Weapons of Mass Destruction: Status of the Cooperative Threat Reduction Program, Report to Congressional Requesters
This report evaluates "the draft 1996 multiyear Cooperative Threat Reduction (CTR) program plan in terms of its scope, depiction of project status and cost estimates, description of changes that occurred after the 1995 CTR multiyear program plan, and release to Congress and the progress, estimated costs, and potential impacts of CTR efforts to help control nuclear weapons and materials, eliminate strategic delivery vehicles, and destroy chemical weapons."
United States. General Accounting Office
1996-09-27
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Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance - United States, 1995
"The Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBSS) monitors six categories of priority health-risk behaviors among youth and young adults: behaviors that contribute to unintentional and intentional injuries, tobacco use, alcohol and other drug use, sexual behaviors, unhealthy dietary behaviors, and physical inactivity. The YRBSS includes both a national school-based survey conducted by CDC [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention] and state and local school-based surveys conducted by state and local education agencies. This report summarizes results from the national survey, 35 state surveys, and 16 local surveys conducted among high school students from February through May 1995."
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.)
Kann, Laura; Warren, Charles W.; Williams, Barbara I.
1996-09-27
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Submission of Aviation Insurance Program Claims to Binding Arbitration: Memorandum Opinion for the General Counsel, Federal Aviation Administration [September 27, 1996]
"Chapter 443 of title 49 authorizes the Secretary of Transportation to offer insurance and reinsurance to air carriers conducting flights 'necessary to carry out the foreign policy of the United States Government.' […] Apparently, disputes arise from time to time as to whether liability to compensate an air carrier is properly assigned to the policy issued under the Secretary's authority, the so-called 'war-risk' insurance, or to the air carrier's general, or 'all-risk,' policy. You have asked whether such insurance and reinsurance policies issued pursuant to the Secretary's authority may provide for resolution of such disputes under a '50-50 clause.' Under a 50-50 clause, the all-risk and war-risk insurers each advance half of the amount payable under their policy at the time of the loss, assuring that the insured air carrier is fully compensated immediately. The 50-50 clause provides that insurers then submit their dispute as to liability to binding arbitration, unless the insurers are able to negotiate a settlement in advance."
United States. Department of Justice. Office of Legal Counsel
1996-09-27
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TRIAGE of Irradiated Personnel
AERRI [Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute] was tasked by the Army Office of the Surgeon General to answer operational questions concerning three issues related to the triage of irradiated personnel deployed forward. These issues, and the workshop participants' consensus responses, are: (1) Effects of radiation injuries on exposed personnel, assuming Level I and Level II medical care and facilities. Individuals receiving over 1.5 Gy should be evacuated; those receiving less than this amount may return to duty. Even at this level, 30% of exposed personnel may be too ill to return to duty. Those who recover will experience varying degrees of persistent fatigue and weakness. Dose assessment at this level is best served by physical dosimetry. (2) Describe these effects in previously exposed personnel. Physical dosimetry is required for personnel who are at risk of a second exposure; no animal model completely predicts the effects of either protracted or multiple radiation exposure in humans. Fatigue and weakness in multiply exposed personnel will be cumulative.
Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute (U.S.)
1996-09-25
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Controls for Defense Science Board Activities
"This audit report was requested by Senator David Pryor, Ranking Minority Member of the Senate Governmental Affairs Subcommittee on Post Office and Civil Service, to assess potential conflicts of interest among members of the Defense Science Board (DSB) and to assess balance concerning their points of view. More than 25 years ago, the Secretary of Defense established DSB as a Federal advisory committee to provide objective and expert scientific advice to DoD on major policy decisions affecting weapon system acquisitions and other procurements costing billions of dollars. The Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Technology (USDA&T) provides management oversight of DSB activities. DSB members are selected on the basis of their experience in the fields of science and technology and their application in military operations, research, engineering, and manufacturing. Task forces conduct studies under the auspices of DSB on a wide range of Defense matters. The task forces were composed of subject matter experts from industry, academia, and Government. For calendar years 1994 and 1995, about 35 task forces were initiated, with 25 reports issued at the time of our audit."
United States. Department of Defense. Office of the Inspector General
1996-09-25
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Results of ADS Communications Testing: Oceans 96 IEEE/MTS
This document is the result of the Automated Dependent Surveillance (ADS) Communications Testing for the United States Coast Guard. The tests were meant to maximize the safe and efficient use of waterways through the power of information.
U.S. Coast Guard Research & Development Center
Johnson, Gregory W.; Pietraszewski, David
1996-09-24
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Public Law 104-201: National Imagery and Mapping Agency Act of 1996
"Congress makes the following findings: There is a need within the Department of Defense and the intelligence Community of the United States to provide a single agency focus for the growing number and diverse types of customers for imagery and geospatial information resources within the government, to ensure visibility and accountability for those resources, and to harness, leverage, and focus rapid technological developments to serve the imagery, imagery intelligence, and geospatial information customers."
United States. Government Printing Office
1996-09-23
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Public Law 104-201: National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1997
"An Act [t]o authorize appropriations for fiscal year 1997 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe personnel strengths for such fiscal year for the Armed Forces, and for other purposes."
United States. Government Printing Office
1996-09-23
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Assertion of Executive Privilege for Documents Concerning Conduct of Foreign Affairs with Respect to Haiti: [Letter from Janet Reno, Attorney General, to the President of the United States] [September 20, 1996]
"You have requested my legal advice as to whether executive privilege may properly be asserted with respect to documents that are the subject of a subpoena issued to the Executive Secretary of the National Security Council ('NSC') by the Committee on International Relations of the House of Representatives. The documents concern the Administration's conduct of foreign affairs with respect to Haiti. […] Although the question of Congress's oversight authority in this context must be viewed as unresolved as a matter of law, it is clear that congressional needs for information in this context will weigh substantially less in the constitutional balancing than a specific need in connection with the considerations of legislation. Based on the Office of Legal Counsel's review of the documents for which assertion of executive privilege has been requested, and conducting the balancing required by the case law, […] I do not believe that access to these documents would be held by the courts to be 'demonstrably critical to the responsible fulfillment of the Committee's functions.' Senate Select Committee, 498 F.2d at 731. In conclusion, it is my legal judgment that executive privilege may properly be asserted in response to the Committee's subpoena."
United States. Department of Justice. Office of Legal Counsel
1996-09-20
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Aviation Security: Technology's Role in Addressing Vulnerabilities, Statement of Keith O. Fultz, Assistant Comptroller General, Resources, Community, and Economic Development Division, Testimony before the Committee on Science, House of Representatives
The 1988 terrorist bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, which killed 270 people, and the more recent, and as yet unexplained, explosion aboard TWA flight 800 have shaken public confidence in the safety and security of air travel. The threat of terrorism against the United States has increased, and aviation remains an attractive target for terrorists. This testimony focuses on measures that need to be taken to protect the flying public from terrorists and how technology can improve aviation safety. The General Accounting Office (GAO) discusses (1) the aviation security system and its vulnerabilities, (2) the availability and limitations of explosives detection technology and other methods to counter the threat, and (3) efforts under way to bolster aviation security. This GAO report also addresses the September 1996 recommendations from the Presidential Commission on Aviation Security and Terrorism.
United States. General Accounting Office
1996-09-19
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Permissible Accommodation of Sacred Sites: Memorandum Opinion for the Secretary of the Interior [September 18, 1996]
"We have been asked to provide our views on the obligations imposed by the Establishment Clause on the treatment of sacred sites under Executive Order No. 13007. That Order states that each federal agency with responsibility for the management of federal lands 'shall, to the extent practicable, permitted by law, and not clearly inconsistent with essential agency functions, (1) accommodate access to and ceremonial use of Indian sacred sites by Indian religious practitioners and (2) avoid adversely affecting the physical integrity of such sacred sites.' […] Questions concerning the permissible means for implementing this executive order have arisen in the wake of a recent federal district court decision enjoining a National Park Service regulation that prohibited the issuance of commercial climbing licenses at Devils Tower, a sacred site in Wyoming, during the religiously significant month of June. We believe that this case was wrongly decided and that the federal government has broad latitude to accommodate the use of sacred sites by federally recognized Indian tribes. In the first section of this memorandum, we lay out the general principles that govern the accommodation of religion under the Establishment Clause. In the second section, we address the principles applicable to the accommodation of sacred sites. We then apply those principles to the Devils Tower case."
United States. Department of Justice. Office of Legal Counsel
1996-09-18
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Globalization: Munitions in the 21st Century
"My own sense is that what was clear to Theodore Roosevelt at the start of the 20th Century is still true today as America prepares to enter the 21st Century. In every field-politics, economics, technology-we are living in an era of 'rich possibilities.' Our hopes are symbolized by the emergence of democracy around the globe, by the growth of new global trade relationships, by the expansion of global communications and by the explosion of information. In this era, the term 'closed society' is rapidly becoming obsolete. One does not need to look any further than beyond the front page of this morning's Washington Post to see how rich the possibilities are--a physician at Mount Vernon Hospital in Fairfax County was able to have a dictated patient medical summary transcribed within four hours. .. not by the hospital clerical staff in Virginia. .. but by a medical transcriptionist in Bangalore, India using high- speed data lines to throw first the voice recording and then the completed transcript halfway around the globe! But along with these rich new opportunities, there is a dark side of fears: the fear of the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, the fear of ancient ethnic hatreds ripping apart multiethnic states, the fear of terrorism by extremist groups, and the fear of aggression by rogue nations freed from the constraints of their former Cold War alliances. The security of the United States continues to require us to maintain strong military forces to deter and if necessary, to defeat those who threaten our vital national interests. I also believe that national security-ours and that of our friends and allies-now, and in the future, will increasingly rely on cooperation."
United States. Department of Defense
Kaminski, Paul G.
1996-09-17
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Executive Order 13018: Amending Exectuve Order No. 12975
"By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and in order to add 3 members to the National Bioethics Advisory Commission, it is hereby ordered that the number '15' in the second sentence of section 3(a) of Executive Order No. 12975 is deleted and the number '18' is inserted in lieu thereof."
United States. Office of the Federal Register
Clinton, Bill, 1946-
1996-09-16
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National Space Policy Fact Sheet
"The goals of the U.S. space program are to: Enhance knowledge of the Earth, the solar system and the universe through human and robotic exploration; Strengthen and maintain the national security of the United States; Enhance the economic competitiveness, and scientific and technical capabilities of the United States; Encourage State, local and private sector investment in, and use of, space technologies, and; Promote international cooperation to further U.S. domestic, national security, and foreign policies."
United States. White House Office
1996-09-16
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Report to the President and Congress on the Protection of U.S. Forces Deployed Abroad
The attack on U.S. forces at Khobar Towers has dramatically underscored that for U.S. forces deployed overseas, terrorism is a fact of life. Every terrorist attack provides lessons on how to prevent further tragedies. However, the Khobar Towers attack should be seen as a watershed event pointing the way to a radically new mind-set and dramatic changes in the way we protect our forces deployed overseas from this growing threat. This report reviews the Khobar Towers attack, the context of our Persian Gulf force deployments, the force protection measures taken before and after the attack, and lessons learned for all of our military operations.
United States. Department of Defense
1996-09-15
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18 U.S.C. § 207 and the Government of Guam: Memorandum Opinion for the Director, Office of Government Ethics [September 12, 1996]
"You have asked for our opinion whether 18 U.S.C. § 207(a)(1) bars a former employee from representing the Government of Guam in a litigation in which he participated personally and substantially while employed by the Department of the Navy. See Letter for Walter Dellinger, Assistant Attorney General, Office of Legal Counsel, from Stephen D. Potts, Director, Office of Government Ethics (June 25, 1996) ('Potts Letter'). We conclude that the statute forbids the representation."
United States. Department of Justice. Office of Legal Counsel
1996-09-12
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Aviation Security: Urgent Issues Need to Be Addressed, Statement of Keith O. Fultz, Assistant Comptroller General, Resources, Community, and Economic Development Division, Testimony before the Subcommittee on Aviation, Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, House of Representatives
The threat of terrorism against the United States has increased, and aviation remains an attractive target for terrorists. The 1988 terrorist bombing of Pan Am flight 103, for example, which killed 270 people, and the more recent, and as yet unexplained, explosion aboard TWA flight 800 have shaken public confidence in the safety and security of air travel. This testimony before the House of Representatives subcommittee focuses on measures that need to be taken to protect the flying public from terrorists and how technology can improve aviation security. Moreover, issues discussed include (1) the aviation security system and its vulnerabilities, (2) the availability and limitations of explosives detection technology and other methods to counter the threat, and (3) efforts under way to bolster aviation security. The General Accounting Office (GAO) report also addresses the September 1996 recommendations from the Presidential Commission on Aviation Security and Terrorism.
United States. General Accounting Office
1996-09-11
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Final Report of the Public Safety Wireless Advisory Committee to the Federal Communications Commission and the National Telecommunications and Information Administration
"This report represents the best efforts of the Public Safety community to define and document its critical need for communications resources and the spectrum which will support them -- now and through the year 2010... the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) established the Public Safety Wireless Advisory Committee (PSWAC or Advisory Committee) to evaluate the wireless communications needs of federal, state, and local Public Safety agencies through the year 2010 and recommend possible solutions. The membership of the PSWAC encompassed a broad range of Public Safety agencies (federal, state, and local), public service providers, equipment manufacturers, commercial service providers, and the public at large. This Final Report, drawn from the five attached subcommittee reports on Operational Requirements, Interoperability, Technology, Spectrum Requirements, and Transition, embodies the findings and recommendations of the PSWAC developed over the past year."
United States. Federal Communications Commission
1996-09-11
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Applicability to Executive Privilege to Deliberations Regarding Assertion of Privilege: Letter Opinion for the Counsel to the President [September 11, 1996]
"You have asked whether certain predecisional deliberative documents in the possession of the White House Counsel's Office may properly be the subject of an assertion of executive. These documents reflect and constitute deliberative communications within the White House Counsel's Office and between that Office and the Department of Justice relating to the advice and recommendations presented to the President earlier this year with respect to the assertion of executive privilege in response to a subpoena from the House Committee on Government Reform and Oversight. We believe that the deliberative process concerning the President's assertion of his constitutional privilege is at the heart of the interests protected by the privilege -- not only because of the heightened confidentiality interests regarding such deliberations, but also because of the severe separation of powers concerns raised by a congressional intrusion on that process. Based on our review of these documents, we conclude that they are clearly protected by executive privilege and may properly be the subject of an executive privilege claim."
United States. Department of Justice. Office of Legal Counsel
1996-09-11
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Transmission by a Wireless Carrier of Information Regarding a Cellular Phone User's Physical Location to Public Safety Organizations: Memorandum Opinion for the Acting Assistant Attorney General, Criminal Division [September 10, 1996]
"You have asked for our opinion as to whether 47 U.S.C. § 1002(a) prohibits a wireless carrier's transmission to local public safety organizations of information regarding the physical location of a caller who uses a cellular telephone to dial the 911 emergency line. In addition, you have inquired as to the constraints, if any, imposed by the Fourth Amendment on such a transmission. As set forth in detail below, we conclude that § 1002(a), by its terms, does not prohibit such transmission of location information. Although you have not inquired as to the applicability of 18 U.S.C. § 2703(c), we conclude that, while the provision would apparently apply to the carrier's transmission of such location information to public safety organizations, the caller, by dialing 911, has impliedly consented to such disclosure, thus permitting the federal government to require the carrier to disclose such information without a warrant or court order. Finally, the Fourth Amendment does not prohibit such transmission both because of the caller's implied consent to the disclosure and because a caller who dials 911 has neither an actual nor a reasonable expectation of privacy with regard to his whereabouts at the time of the call."
United States. Department of Justice. Office of Legal Counsel
1996-09-10
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U.S. Fire Administration/Technical Report Series: Broward Marine Fire, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
"An early morning fire destroyed the Broward Marine boat manufacturing facility in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and caused extensive damage to several yachts under construction at the facility. The firestorm spread large embers throughout the area, causing spot fires throughout the property and damaging several boats moored near the site. The resulting smoke column was visible from as far as seven miles away. Situated on the New River, the Broward Marine facility housed boat production and storage buildings dating back to the 1930's and marina areas. The structures involved in the fire included a manufacturing building, a boat assembly building, and an office building. (See Figure 1) The facility had previously been cited by authorities for a number of code violations. Damage was estimated at 15 million dollars."
United States Fire Administration
1996-09-05
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Terrorism and Drug Trafficking: Technologies for Detecting Explosives and Narcotics, Report to Congressional Requesters
Aviation security and drug interdiction depend on a complex and costly mix of intelligence, procedures, and technologies. Since 1978, federal agencies have spent about $246 million for research and development on explosives detection technologies and nearly $100 million on narcotics detection technologies. Most of this spending has taken place since 1990, in response to congressional directives, and have been for technologies to screen checked baggage, trucks, and containers. Difficult trade-offs must be made when considering whether to use detection technologies for a given application--chief among them the extent to which intelligence-gathering and procedures can substitute for expensive technology. Some technologies are very effective and could be deployed today, but they are expensive, slow the flow of commerce, and raise issues of worker safety. Other technologies are more widely used but are less reliable, while still others are in the development stage and may not be available for years. Some countries have already deployed advanced explosive and narcotics detection equipment, and the United States may be able to learn from their experiences. The Federal Aviation Administration estimates that use of the best available procedures and technologies to beef up aviation security could cost as much as $6 billion during the next 10 years--the equivalent of a $1.30 surcharge on a one-way ticket.
United States. General Accounting Office
1996-09-04
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Immunity of the Council to the President from Compelled Congressional Testimony: Letter Opinion for the Counsel to the President [September 3, 1996]
"You have asked whether it would be consistent with precedent and governing legal principles to assert executive privilege should a subpoena be issued by a congressional committee to you, in your capacity as Counsel to the President, to compel your testimony at a committee hearing concerning the performance of your official duties. We believe that executive privilege would be assertable on the basis that you serve as an immediate adviser to the President and are therefore immune from compelled congressional testimony. It is the longstanding position of the executive branch that 'the President and his immediate advisors are absolutely immune from testimonial compulsion by a Congressional committee.'"
United States. Department of Justice. Office of Legal Counsel
1996-09-03
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Hurricane Opal Assessment: Review of the Use and Value of Hurricane Evacuation Studies Products in the Hurricane Opal Evacuation of Alabama and Florida, October 3-4, 1995
"This report is an assessment of what went wrong with the Hurricane Opal evacuation and why the tools and products developed from past studies were not used. It offers a synopsis of recommendations for improvement in the future and goes into depth on evacuation timing and suggestions about how to promote more appropriate public responses."
United States. Federal Emergency Management Agency; United States. Army. Corps of Engineers
1996-09
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Tsunamis Affecting Alaska: 1737-1996
From the Purpose: "This catalog describes all known tsunamis that have affected Alaska in historic time. A thorough understanding of past tsunamis is essential to designing an effective mitigation plan. Although 'United States Tsunamis (Including United States Possessions), 1690-1988' (Lander and Lockridge, 1989) included a section on Alaskan tsunamis, the overall task was too large to allow extensive research beyond previously published catalogs. The preparation of 'Tsunamis Affecting the West Coast of the United States, 1806-1992' (Lander, Lockridge, and Kozuch, 1993) expanded the earlier catalog for the west coast section and demonstrated that extensive new information could be found if a detailed search was made. This catalog continues the research into Alaskan tsunamis. It has resulted in significant improvements in the numbers of tsunamis cataloged and the details of their effects. Alaska has a complex tsunami history due to the varied tectonic regimes, its history of colonization by the Russians and Americans, and its geography of many isolated bays and islands. It is the one area of the United States which produces tsunamis capable of causing damage at far removed locations in the Pacific, including those most destructive to Hawaii and the United States west coast. Alaska has a history of frequent and huge waves generated by submarine and subaerial landslides related to glaciation. It has more local tsunamis than any other location in the United States and has had at least one damaging tsunami generated by an active volcano. Due to Alaska's low population density in many geographic areas, the history is probably less complete than other areas in the United States, making a thorough search of the literature all the more important."
United States. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Lander, James F.
1996-09
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Hurricane Fran: North Carolina High Water Mark Survey and Coastal Inundation Mapping
"The goal of this investigation and study was to determine and map the approximate high-water elevations of the stillwater storm surge and of the combined effects of storm surge and waves for the open coast and inland bay areas affected by Hurricane Fran [September, 1996]. The results of the survey help to establish an approximate coastal flood inundation limit and a wind/water line along the affected reaches." This document includes maps
United States. Federal Emergency Management Agency
1996-09
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Intranets
From the thesis abstract: "The purpose of this thesis is to develop a prototype Client-Server application that can be used by selected Naval Postgraduate School staff-members to coordinate meeting agendas and travel plans. A prototype application that can be implemented and deployed on an organizational network was designed and developed using commercially available tools. The thesis also addresses the current computing problems confronting this institution and the reasons why corporate America is embracing Web-based intranet technology; it will also examine why a Web-based intranet is a viable solution for many of the computing problems facing this organization. Additionally, we examined other applications that can be developed and deployed on an intranet at the Naval Postgraduate School. Finally, we explore the renowned intranet at Sandia National Laboratories and explain which factors played the most significant role in the success they have achieved with intranet technology at their organization."
Naval Postgraduate School (U.S.)
King, James Charles; Mizerak, William Paul
1996-09
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Shield Phase II: Transfers Successful Legacy for National Missile Defense Applications
"The purpose of this paper is to identify how the successful legacy of the SHIELD project is being directly applied to the development and transition to operations of an emergency response system for National Missile Defense (NMD) Battle Management, Command, Control, and Communications (BMC3), and how existing elements and infrastructures are being optimized to provide a functional, capable system in the near-term for use in the execution of NMD. Most NMD functions are not unique to the Air Force [AF] nor to Air Force Space Command (AFSPC). Surveillance and warning, event detection, threat assessment, and attack characterization all currently exist in AF [Air Force] support architectures for theater and ITW/AA [Integrated Tactical Warning and Attack Assessment] infrastructures. In addition, the AF MMIII [Minuteman III Intercontinental Ballistic Missile] has been shown to be an accurate and effective weapon which can be of significant use during the reapportionment of existing strategic resources for defensive purposes. Data to support these functions readily flows across current operational and developmental systems in a variety of AFSPC centers. For emergency response and contingency operations, a large measure of the existing capabilities and information flow can be exploited. Development work for NMD-unique functions is minimal and integration to existing command and control infrastructures is neither complex nor time intensive. Taking advantage of methodologies used in the development and transition of TALON SHlELD to the operational 11th Space Warning Squadron (SWS), we will illustrate how these successful techniques can be used once again by leveraging existing AF systems to maximize interoperability of sensors, minimize technical risk, minimize startup and transition times, and use revolutionary acquisition, testing, and normalization structures to produce a more timely, cost effective NMD BMC3 architecture, and a 'Global SHIELD' against threats from around the world."
Space Warfare Center (U.S.)
McClung, Sean D.; Fraser, Christopher
1996-09
