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Show 12 Hilltop Times November 10, 2004 Junior force from page 10 SpaceShipOne may help flight test X-prize winner offers lessons for AF design in Denmark. It tracks velocity differences as For the Air Force, this technology could expertise, values, skills, perspectives, attitudes objects move toward or away from the radar's provide an important test range asset for and proficiencies. It allows the learner to build many programs, including monitoring unmanned scope, Khosrowabadi explained. skills and knowledge while attaining goals for aerial vehicles, bomb drops and possibly the "Everything in the beam with a velocity career development. Conversely, it provides space shuttle, said Allen Khosrowabadi, component will be detected," said Edwin the opportunity for the experienced individSPADS program manager for the 412th Test Rutkowski, lead SPADS systems engineer ual to further enhance his/her skill and knowlWing Program Management Directorate, for Space Information Laboratories, or SIL, edge areas by continuously reassessing and Acquisition Portfolio. a subcontractor for JT3. "The velocity sets building upon those areas." Mentors and the Doppler shift frequency return, and up In this first phase of development, Mr. Khosmentees can connect and access resources that's what the receiver detects. It detects rowabadi explained, the team simply "wanted at the website, which already boasts 1,495 regto get the radar, get familiar with it, and do changes in frequency, or the Doppler effect,* EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. istered mentors in AFMC. a demonstration to see if it makes sense for and computes the range for each one of those." (AFMCNS) — As SpaceShipOne rocketed Provide supervisory tools. The AFMC the business the center has or the range has SPADS performed its first two technolthrough the California skies Oct. 4 to claim Supervisor's Resource Center provides resources for this specific capability. Apparently now ogy demonstrations during SpaceShipOne's and tools for development of supervisory skills,the AnsariX Prize, engineers here followed the answer is yes." historic flights Sept. 29 and again Oct. 4. information sharing, and a forum in which the contrails and collected data about the SpaceShipOne, designed and built by a priRobert Selbrede, JT3 lead engineer, said, supervisors may collaborate with other super- spacecraft's trajectory thanks to a new radar visors and managers. Many tools are already called Spaceport Arrival and Departure Safety "Think of SpaceShipOne as a bomb separat- vate company called Mojave Aerospace Vening from the aircraft. You would want to know tures, became the first privately funded in place on the web site and more are in the System. if the bomb came back up and hit the plane. manned spacecraft to reach suborbital space.The Air Force Flight Test Center and the works. You would want to see if it came off and The $10 million Ansari X Prize is awarded Strengthen feedback. Effective feedback California Space Authority, whose purpose is to retain, grow and create California space dropped off real quick or if it stayed parallel for work toward making it possible for the provides the necessary information people general public to fly in space. In an era of need to build on their strengths and to shore enterprise, both recognized a need for a mul- or started tumbling right away." tifrequency, continuous wave radar system The key component for the SPADS project skies crowded with commercial aircraft, and up weaknesses. Currently, the AFMC pernow space planes, SPADS offers a new potenis the Weibel Doppler radar system, manuformance feedback guidance is available on that can track multiple objects at the same time. for enhanced safety. tial factured by Weibel Scientific headquartered the website along with information on related training. Additional tools, such as an assessment tool that leads to specific training in the off or redirected away from the target, the areas where improvement is needed, is also effect ceases. being developed. The technology was developed in response to Department of Defense needs for field comEnergize recognition efforts. The emphamanders to have the option of non-lethal versis on recognition should be very high on sus deadly force. It can be used in peacekeeping our list since it was rated lowest by workforce and humanitarian missions as well as basic members. Recognition can positively influprotection and police keeping. ence conduct competence, and employee retention. The effort to provide formal recognition KIRTLAND AIR FORCE BASE, N.M. the skin and heats the skin's surface, creating Dr. Loree said four AFRL directorates are has been great, but much can be done to pro- (AFMCNS) — Air Force Research Laboratory pain without causing damage. involved in developing this airborne capabilmote informal recognition. New tools for how, officials here awarded a $7 million contract Following a vehicle-mounted version of the ity: directed energy here; propulsion and vehiwhen, where, and innovative ideas on incor- Oct. 4 to Communications & Power Industries technology being developed, laboratory experts cles at Wright Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio; porating both types of recognition in the work- to develop a way to place pain-generating tech- are now going a step further. However, to do and human effectiveness at Brooks City-Base, force are now available. nology onto an aircraft. so, Dr. Loree said the system needs a lighter, Texas. Improve communication within the work- The contract, which has a potential total of more efficient wave source. Enter CPI, selected Experts from directed energy, as the lead force. The AFMC Junior Force Communica- $11 million with options, calls for CPI experts, based on technology it developed and demon- directorate, focuses on the systems engineering tions explains communication roles and based in Palo Alto, Calif., to build an improvedstrated under a previous contract with the lab- and radiating system development, she said. responsibilities; defines key messages; out- energy-generating device that puts the now oratory. Propulsion directorate experts focus on the lines the methods and means to communicate vehicle-mounted, AFRL-crealed Active Denial Active Denial technology does not cause dam-airborne power generation and conditioning messages; and assessment for ongoing inter- System airborne, according to Dr. Diana Loree, age; its millimeter-wave energy penetrates the required for the radiating system. Vehicles action. Finally, the AFMC flagship tool — the Active Denial project officer. skin less than 1/64 of an inch, heating the waterdirectorate scientists and engineers put their Junior Force Community of Practice Web site She said the technology uses millimeter-wave molecules and creating an intense burning sen- efforts toward Active Denial's thermal man— is contemporary, vector-checked with AFMCelectromagnetic energy to stop, deter and turn sation, Dr. Loree said. 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