SDI : technology, survivability, and software.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment, issuing body.

Series:

Princeton legacy library.

Princeton Legacy Library ; 813

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Strategic Defense Initiative.

Strategic Defense Initiative--Data processing.

Ballistic missile defenses--Combat survivability.

Ballistic missile defenses.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (296 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

First Princeton University Press edition.

Place of Publication:

Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 1988.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Strategic Defense Initiative examines developments in the technologies currently being researched under SDI. The OTA does not repeat the work of its earlier reports but gives special attention to filling in gaps in those reports and to describing technical progress made in the intervening period. The report also presents information on the prospects for functional survival against preemptive attack of alternative ballistic missile defense system architectures now being considered under the SDI. Finally, it analyzes the feasibility of developing reliable software to perform the battle management tasks required by such system architectures.Originally published in 1988.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Foreword

Office of Technology Assessment

Advisory Panel on SDI: Technology, Survivability, and Software

OTA Project Staff-SDI: Technology, Survivability, and Software. Acknowledgments

Workshop on Soviet Response to SDI, January 1987. Workshop on SDI Software, January 1987

Contents

Preface

Chapter 1. Summary

Chapter 2. Introduction

Chapter 3. Designing a BMD System: Architecture and Trade-off Studies

Chapter 4. Status and Prospects of Ballistic Missile Defense Technologies, Part I: Sensors

Chapter 5. Ballistic Missile Defense Technology: Weapons, Power, Communications, and Space Transportation

Chapter 6. System Development, Deployment, and Support

Chapter 7. System Integration and Battle Management

Chapter 8. Computing Technology

Chapter 9. Software

Chapter 10. Non-Destructive Countermeasures to Ballistic Missile Defense

Chapter 11. Defense Suppression and System Survivability

Chapter 12. Defense Suppression Scenarios

Appendixes

Notes:

Reprint of a reprint. Originally published: Washington, D.C. : Office of Technology Assessment, 1988 and reprint published: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 1988.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed August 6, 2014).

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9780691603629

0691603626

9780691632926

0691632928

9780691022703

0691022704

9781400858873

1400858879

OCLC:

899261183