The Role of System Architecture in the Strategic Defense Initiative.

Abstract

President Reagan's Defense Initiative was unveiled over three years ago and has become one of this nations's most ambitious scientific undertakings. This vision of making nuclear weapons obsolete involves much more than just a scientific endeavor. It has become a subject of national debate and an issue of public policy and priorities. This report focuses on the preeminent role that the system architecture plays in continued research, development, and possible future deployment of a system. Individual components, weapons, and technologies are examined and the importance of the ability of these new technologies to integrate together into an effective technology portfolio is discussed. The technology portfolio must combine within the system architecture or framework. Key system architecture. This report concludes by amplifying the uncertainties that still exist in strategic defense research. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 1986
Accession Number
ADA170843

Entities

People

  • David M. Snyder

Organizations

  • Air Force Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Artificial Satellites
  • Battle Management
  • Computer Programming
  • Defense Systems
  • Directed Energy Weapons
  • Earth Orbits
  • Lasers
  • Nuclear Weapons
  • Particle Beams
  • Remotely Piloted Vehicles
  • Rocket Engines
  • Rockets
  • Space Systems
  • Strategic Defense Initiative
  • Systems Engineering
  • Weapon Systems

Fields of Study

  • Political science

Readers

  • Military Science and Technology Research and Modernization.
  • Strategic Security Studies
  • Systems Analysis and Design