Critical technologies for national defense

Abstract

The present volume furnishes systematic evaluations of the impact on future weapons systems of such advanced technologies as those of composite materials' reinforcing fibers, metallic and ceramic matrices, and component manufacturing methods; CFD hardware, software, and methodologies; data-fusion methods and their integration with expert systems; passive sensors for targeting; and integrated optical devices for communications, signal processing, and computation. Also discussed are semiconductors and IC preparation and photolithography, signal processing for spectral analysis and matched filtering; software producibility, airbreathing propulsion, machine intelligence and robotics, parallel computer architectures, noncooperative target-recognizing radars, radar cross section-reducing materials, atmospheric and undersea weapons environments, biotechnology materials, high energy density materials, hypervelocity projectiles, pulsed power sources, and superconductivity.