Lessons Learned from the Development of the Joint Stand-Off Target Attack Radar System Common Ground Station

Abstract

This article examines eight major lessons learned from the development of the Joint Stand-off Target Attack Radar System (Joint STARS) Common Ground Station (CGS), beginning with systems development of the airborne moving target indicator radar and extending through development of the CGS. The Joint STARS program was an innovation in acquisition reform initiatives embedded in what was to become the Department of Defense 5000. However, in other respects Joint STARS was subject to programmatic difficulties and could have benefited from the acquisition principles of the 5000 series had it been implemented earlier. The identification of these lessons learned has important implications for the development of other systems.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2006
Accession Number
ADA487661

Entities

People

  • J. D. Sherman

Organizations

  • University of Alabama in Huntsville

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • C4I
  • Human Systems
  • Sensors
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Aircrafts
  • Contractors
  • Department Of Defense
  • Engineering
  • Ground Moving Target Indicators
  • Ground Stations
  • Iraqi-War
  • Lessons Learned
  • Military Acquisition
  • Moving Target Indicator Radar
  • Personnel Management
  • Radar
  • Side Looking Radar
  • Synthetic Aperture Radar
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Economics
  • Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.
  • Sensor Fusion and Tracking Systems.