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Aircraft Engine Exhaust Plume Phenomenology Modeling Improvements for Better HITL Scene Generation & Missile Endgame Performance

BACKGROUND Various Department of Defense (DoD) modeling and simulation (M&S) groups perform digital and hardware-in-the-loop (HITL) threat missile flyout and…

The 96th Test Wing: Excelling in Seeker and Sensor Data Collection

The 96th Test Wing’s Seekers and Sensors Test Flight provides an end-to-end test and evaluation capability for electro-optic/infrared (IR) and…

Navigating the Future Battlefield with Autonomous Ground Vehicles

Recently, Lockheed Martin and several Government and industry partners (including the U.S. Army Tank Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center…

Insensitive Munitions: Where Are We Now?

Anyone involved in weapons systems development during the past 30 years should be familiar with the seemingly contradictory term “Insensitive…

StingRay: High-Performance RF Energy Propagation Modeling in Complex Environments

Introduction Understanding the propagation of radio frequency (RF) energy in the presence of complex outdoor terrain features, such as in…

Directed Energy Weapons: From War of the Worlds to the Modern Battlefield

“An almost noiseless and blinding flash of light … this invisible, inevitable sword of heat”:  When H. G. Wells first…

Spectrum Supportability Risk Assessments: An Overview

INTRODUCTION As we ride on the cusp of a new age of electronic warfare, management and use of the electromagnetic…

Lightening the Load for the Modern Marine

INTRODUCTION Dismounted U.S. Marines perform some of the most physically demanding missions, often requiring extensive situational awareness, overwhelming firepower, and…

TurboPK – An All-Inclusive, Ultra-Fast Vulnerability and Lethality Endgame Code

Introduction Parallel processing divides large problems into smaller problems that can be run simultaneously on multiple processors. Although the technique…

HIVE: An Integrating Environment for Simulation and Analysis

Introduction A decade of organic growth and adoption has given rise to a modern platform for simulation development, integration, and…

An Overview of Modern Metrology to Support Military Testing

Introduction Although the word “metrology” may be unfamiliar to many in the world of military equipment design and testing, it…

Blast Data Visualization Part 2: Generating 3-D Animations with Python

Onward with 3D Animations In Part 1 of this two-part series on blast data visualization article (see the fall 2014…