The Missile, Research, Development and Engineering Center, MRDEC, of the U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Command, AMCOM is developing and demonstrating tele-operated missile systems that provide many of the capabilities that the Army has stated it needs. These capabilities include flexible mission planning, improved Identification Friend or Foe, minimum collateral damage, and precision hit. The ...

researchers made significant progress toward developing naval-based theater missile defenses during the Clinton administration, the basic NMD architecture had no naval component because that administration sought actual deployments by 2005–2006. Once in office, the Bush administration was determined to accelerate progress on missile defenses, expand research and development efforts, accept a gr...

A method for the determination of the trajectory of a ballistic missile over a rotating, spherical Earth given only the launch position and impact point has been developed. The iterative solution presented uses a state transition matrix to correct the initial conditions of the ballistic missile state vector based upon deviations from a desired set of final conditions. A six-degree-of-freedom si...

he rocket sled test facility at the Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico provides a unique and valuable test venue for evaluating advanced missile technology at representative flight velocities. Recent failures at the facility underscore the inherent high-risk nature of supersonic sled tests and undermine their potential value to missile development programs. This article addresses one potenti...

The successful operation of NATO missions requires the effective and secure sharing of information among coalition partners and external organizations, while avoiding the disclosure of sensitive information to unauthorized users. To resolve the conflict between confidentiality and availability in a dynamic coalition and network environment while being able to dynamically respond to changes in p...