Accession Number:

ADA288614

Title:

Producing Target Models at a Central Facility. Assessment Methodology.

Descriptive Note:

Research rept.,

Corporate Author:

RAND CORP SANTA MONICA CA

Personal Author(s):

• Hura, Myron
• McLeod, Gary

Report Date:

1994-01-01

Pagination or Media Count:

60.0

Abstract:

This report develops a methodology for assessing the capabilities of a notional central facility to support the detailed terminal-area mission planning-in particular, building target models-required by autonomous precision-guided weapons PGWs with target-imaging sensors. Specifically, this work defines the functions that a central facility has to perform to build target models, provides representative time estimates for completing those functions, and then determines daily production rates for target models under a range of conditions. To place the methodology in the context of existing organizations, existing systems, and potential new capabilities, the report defines three alternative designs for a central facility. The central facility concept is the initial building block for the alternative intelligence-support and mission-planning architectures for autonomous PGWs described in a companion report Hura and McLeod, 1993, in that it provides additional information on the ability of a notional central facility to produce target models. Although the focus is on autono- mous PGWs with imaging infrared sensors, much of the methodology for building target models also applies to other target-imaging sensors.

Descriptors:

• *FACILITIES
• *MUNITIONS INDUSTRY
• *GUIDED WEAPONS
• WEAPONS
• METHODOLOGY
• DETECTORS
• MODELS
• MODULAR CONSTRUCTION
• TARGETS
• ESTIMATES
• TIME
• INFRARED IMAGES
• IMAGES
• PRECISION
• INFRARED DETECTORS
• DAILY OCCURRENCE
• PRODUCTION RATE

Subject Categories:

• Military Forces and Organizations
• Guided Munitions

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE