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

by Brock, Jack L.; Rhodes, Keith

• ISBN13: 9780756728182
• ISBN10: 0756728185
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-11-01
• Publisher: Diane Pub Co

Table of Contents

Letter	1	(10)
Disclosure of Key Results and Limitations	5	(1)
Evaluations of TRW's Discrimination Software	6	(2)
Justice's Decision Not to Join Suit	8	(1)
Steps to Assure Independent and Objective Review by the Phase One Engineering Team	9	(1)
Agency Comments and Our Evaluation	9	(2)
Appendix I Disclosure of Flight Test's Key Results and Limitations	11	(13)
The Test	11	(2)
Reported Key Results and Limitations	13	(9)
Effect of Cooling Failure on Sensor's Performance	22	(2)
Appendix II Evaluations of TRW's Software and a Planned Enhancement	24	(10)
Nichols Evaluation of TRW's Discrimination Software	24	(3)
Phase One Engineering Team's Evaluation	27	(3)
Evaluations of the Extended Kalman Filter Feature Extractor	30	(4)
Appendix III Justice's Decision Not to Join Lawsuit	34	(2)
Information from the Army Space and Missile Defense Command	34	(1)
Recommendation of the Army Legal Services Agency	34	(2)
Appendix IV Steps to Assure Independent and Objective Review by the Phase One Engineering Team	36	(4)
The Phase One Engineering Team	36	(2)
Alternative Panel Composition	38	(2)
Appendix V Boeing Integrated Flight Test 1A Requirements and Actual Performance as Reported by Boeing and TRW	40	(2)
Appendix VI Scope and Methodology	42	(2)
Appendix VII Comments from the Department of Defense	44	(1)
Appendix VIII Major Contributors	45	(1)
Acquisition and Sourcing Management	45	(1)
Applied Research and Methods	45	(1)
General Counsel	45