THE INTEGRATION OF AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL AND AIR DEFENSE

Abstract

The Federal Aviation Agency and the United States Air Force have taken definite steps toward the integration of air traffic control with air defense. Three of these steps are: (1) the successful completion of an experiment called CHARM which demonstrated that the SAGE air defense system could assist the present air traffic control system; (2) the formulation of a plan, based partly on CHARM results, to make use of nine SAGE super combat centers planned for operation in the mid-1960's to centralize integrated facilities; and (3) the beginning of an experimental program called SATIN to test integration techniques and equipment. The SAGE direction center contains a large, high-speed, general purpose digital computer which centralizes the processing of radar data and coordinates the control of air defense weapons over an area several hundred miles square.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1959
Accession Number
AD0408622

Entities

People

  • D. R. Israel

Organizations

  • MITRE Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Defense
  • Air Force
  • Air Traffic
  • Air Traffic Control Systems
  • Aircrafts
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Consoles
  • Control Systems
  • Coordinate Systems
  • Data Displays
  • Data Processing
  • Defense Systems
  • High Altitude
  • Massachusetts
  • United States

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