Strategic Defense Initiative Organization Data Center Overview
Abstract
The Strategic Defense Initiative Organization (SDIO) program experiments generate significant quantities of science and engineering data. To protect the large investment made in collecting the resulting test and measurement data SDIO has established data centers to manage the storage, access, and distribution of this information. These data centers provide experimenters, developers, scientists, and analysts access to databases of reduced, verified and validated experiment data at institutions with the expertise to support their data requirements. The SDIO science and technology data centers (STDC's) are located at existing DoD centers of expertise relating to science phenomenology and technology. Three phenomenology data centers handle information such as earth and space backgrounds, missile plume signatures, and reentry vehicle information. Two engineering and technology data centers manage information about kinetic energy weapons and directed energy weapons. A sixth data center, the National Test Facility (NTF), serves as a coordinating data center for technical issues and is the center of the National Test Bed (NTB). To assure that the data centers adequately serve the needs of the SDIO community, the User Products Information Group (UPIG) coordinates activities among the data centers and the Data Center Standards Committee (DCSC).
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jan 25, 1991
- Accession Number
- ADA338091