Adding Automation and Decision Support Capabilities at the Reagan Test Site

Abstract

The U.S. Armys Reagan Test Site (RTS), approximately 2300 miles west southwest of Hawaii on the Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands, is ideal for missile and interceptor testing because of its distance from populous areas and its open-ocean line from launch facilities at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. The sites unique instrumentation systems, including high-fidelity metric and signature radars and optical sensors, support research, development, test, and evaluation of technology for ballistic missile defense and space surveillance. Because these tests are growing in complexity, such as having to track multiple simultaneous intercepts by several fielded weapons systems (e.g., Patriot and Aegis), data collection is becoming increasingly difficult. To significantly reduce the risk of inadequate data collection during tests, MIT Lincoln Laboratory initiated the RTS Automation and Decision Support (RADS) program to develop tools to automate data collection and provide decision support to mission controllers and system operators.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 04, 2016
Accession Number
AD1033744

Entities

People

  • Timothy J. O'rourke

Organizations

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Sensors
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Air Force Facilities
  • Automation
  • Ballistic Missiles
  • Command And Control
  • Computer Vision
  • Detectors
  • Kwajalein Atoll
  • Marshall Islands
  • Materials
  • Millimeter Waves
  • Missions
  • Object Recognition
  • Optical Detectors
  • Reliability
  • Space Surveillance
  • Test And Evaluation

Readers

  • Astronomy and Astrophysics.
  • Missile Defense Systems.
  • Team-Based Human-Centered Cognitive Task Decision Making and Information Performance.

Technology Areas

  • Space
  • Space - Space Objects