Accession Number:

AD0915421

Title:

Data Processing/HAPDAR Field Test Facility.

Descriptive Note:

Final technical rept. 18 Dec 72-30 Jun 73,

Corporate Author:

RCA MISSILE AND SURFACE RADAR DIV MOORESTOWN N J

Personal Author(s):

• Smith,G. W.
• King,W. C.
• Royer,T. C.
• Copestakes,J. E.

Report Date:

1973-07-01

Pagination or Media Count:

103.0

Abstract:

This report describes the final debugging and initial operation of the Data ProcessingHAPDAR Field Test Facility at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico. The Facility consists of a specially programmed IBM 36065 Computer operating with the Sperry Rand HAPDAR Hardpoint Demonstration Array Radar. The integrated combination of computer, software, and radar, results in a system for detecting and tracking aircraft and missile targets at WSMR. Intended as a test bed for evaluating Ballistic Missile Defense software elements, the Facility was used in both real-time experiments and off-line simulations involving aircraft and falling-sphere targets. Athena missile firings at WSMR afforded occasional missile targets of opportunity, and an Athena was briefly detected by the Facility. Author

Descriptors:

• (*Antimissile defense systems
• *Data processing)
• (*Phased arrays
• Data processing)
• Computer programming
• Digital computers
• Real time
• Interfaces
• Video signals
• Signal processing
• Target discrimination
• Radar targets
• Flow charting
• Remote terminals
• Data processing terminals
• Test facilities
• Computer programs
• Display systems
• Radar
• Reentry vehicles
• Spheres
• Hardening
• Beam steering

Subject Categories:

• Computer Programming and Software
• Computer Hardware
• Antimissile Defense Systems
• Active and Passive Radar Detection and Equipment

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE