Missile Defense Review of Allegations about an Early National Missile Defense Flight Test

By Department of Defense

Book Id: WPLBN0000183879
Format Type: PDF eBook
File Size: 0.6 MB
Reproduction Date: 2005

Title:	Missile Defense Review of Allegations about an Early National Missile Defense Flight Test
Author:	Department of Defense
Volume:
Language:	English
Subject:	Military, Armed Forces., National defense.
Collections:	Military and Armed Forces Library Collection
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Publisher:	Department of Defense


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Description
Government Reference Publication

Excerpt
Excerpt: For a number of years, the Department of Defense has been researching and developing defenses against ballistic missile attacks on the United States, its deployed forces, friends, and allies. In 1990, the Department awarded research and development contracts to three contractors to develop and test exoatmospheric kill vehicles.1 The Department planned to use the best of the three vehicles in a follow-on missile defense program. One of the contractors, Rockwell International, subcontracted a portion of its kill vehicle design work to TRW. TRW was tasked with developing software that could operate on a computer onboard the kill vehicle. The software was to analyze data collected in flight by the kill vehicle’s sensor (which collects real-time information about threat objects), enabling the kill vehicle to distinguish an enemy warhead from accompanying decoys ...

Table of Contents
Contents Letter 1 Disclosure of Key Results and Limitations 5 Evaluations of TRW’s Discrimination Software 6 Justice’s Decision Not to Join Suit 8 Steps to Assure Independent and Objective Review by the Phase One Engineering Team 9 Agency Comments and Our Evaluation 9 Appendix I Disclosure of Flight Test’s Key Results and Limitations 11 The Test 11 Reported Key Results and Limitations 13 Effect of Cooling Failure on Sensor’s Performance 22 Appendix II Evaluations of TRW’s Software and a Planned Enhancement 24 Nichols Evaluation of TRW’s Discrimination Software 24 Phase One Engineering Team’s Evaluation 27 Evaluations of the Extended Kalman Filter Feature Extractor 30 Appendix III Justice’s Decision Not to Join Lawsuit 34 Information from the Army Space and Missile Defense Command 34 Recommendation of the Army Legal Services Agency 34 Appendix IV Steps to Assure Independent and Objective Review by the Phase One Engineering Team 36 The Phase One Engineering Team 36 Alternative Panel Composition 38 Appendix V Boeing Integrated Flight Test 1A Requirements and Actual Performance as Reported by Boeing and TRW 40 Appendix VI Scope and Methodology 42