Greyscales is a method for producing estimates of guided missile miss distance and missile warhead probability of kill. The associated computer code has been written to be portable and capable of being incorporated into a variety of simulations. The code has already been integrated into the Weapon Systems Division MECA and DUEL missile engagement simulations. It can also be integrated into larg...

PEPE (Parallel Element Processing Ensemble) was designed, developed, and produced for the U.S. Army Ballistic Missile Defense Advanced Technology Center (BMDATC) for research on Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) systems. With its host computer, the CDC 7600, it is potentially the world's most powerful computer system. PEPE employs parallel processing and associative data-access techniques, and wh...

Missile pose estimation in terminal guidance refers to the technique of estimating missile position and attitude by matching seeker images with pre stored reference images during the terminal phase of missile flight. This paper presents a method for estimating the position and orientation of the missile with respect to a known object using point correspondences between seeker and reference imag...

This paper addresses the problem of how to produce reliable software that is also flexible and cost effective for the DoD distributed software domain. DoD software systems fall into two categories: information systems and war fighter systems. Both types of systems can be distributed, heterogeneous and network-based, consisting of a set of components running on different platforms and working to...

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 nonradiating threats. The "fire and forget" feature coupled with RAMs quick reaction protects ships against dense raids ...

This paper shows; that, in some conditions we can obtain the exact solution for a missile and an aircraft differential games which minimizes and maximizes the essential pay-off of the problem: the miss distance, without employing any linearized approximation. The idea of our method is, by starting from the aircraft one-sided optimal control solution against a PNG missile, which maximizes the mi...

Is the Department of Defense (DOD) pursuing the correct investment strategy for space-based laser weapons? Recent advances in lasers, optics, and spacecraft technologies may bring high-energy laser weapons to a sufficient level of maturity for serious consideration as space weapons against the theater ballistic missile threat. However, these technological advances also make other architectures ...

This paper addresses the problem of how to produce reliable software that is also flexible and cost effective for the DoD distributed software domain. DoD software systems fall into two categories: information systems and war fighter systems. Both types of systems can be distributed, heterogeneous and network-based, consisting of a set of components running on different platforms and working to...