Strategic Defense Initiative
eBook - PDF

Strategic Defense Initiative

Survivability and Software

  1. 296 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Strategic Defense Initiative

Survivability and Software

About this book

Strategic Defense Initiative examines developments in the technologies currently being researched under SDI. The OTA does not repeat the work of its earlier reports but gives special attention to filling in gaps in those reports and to describing technical progress made in the intervening period. The report also presents information on the prospects for functional survival against preemptive attack of alternative ballistic missile defense system architectures now being considered under the SDI. Finally, it analyzes the feasibility of developing reliable software to perform the battle management tasks required by such system architectures.

Originally published in 1988.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. 1. Summary
  4. 2. Introduction
  5. 3. Designing a Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) System: Architecture and Trade-Off Studies
  6. 4. Status and Prospects of Ballistic Missile Defense Technologies, Part I: Sensors
  7. 5. Status and Prospects of Ballistic Missile Defense Technologies, Part II: Weapons, Power, Communication, and Space Transportation
  8. 6. System Development, Deployment, and Suport
  9. 7. System Integration and Battle Management
  10. 8. Computing Technology
  11. 9. Software
  12. 10. Nondestructive Countermeasures Against Ballistic Missile Defense
  13. 11. Defense Suppression and System Survivability
  14. 12. Defense Suppression Initiative
  15. Appendix A: Technology for Producing Dependable Software
  16. Appendix B: Glossary