DEFENSE

Systems Digest

3 OCTOBER 2023

DSIAC collects and publishes articles related to our technical focus areas on the web to share with the DoD community.

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DoD Will Deploy AI-Enabled Detection System to Monitor D.C. Airspace

An artificial intelligence-powered airspace monitoring system is set to be installed to enhance protection of the nation’s capital with the potential to scale across other Defense Department and U.S. government installations and systems. “The upgraded visual recognition, identification, and warning system delivers a tenfold increase in performance capability compared to the 9/11-era system it replaces,”…

Notable Technical Inquiry

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Volume 9 Number 2

The DSIAC Journal is a publication of the Defense Systems Information Analysis Center (DSIAC). DSIAC is a DoD Information Analysis Center (IAC) sponsored by the Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC) with policy oversight provided by the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense (OUSD) for Research and Engineering (R&E). DSIAC is operated by the SURVICE Engineering Company.

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Seminal Technique for Characterizing GPS Navigation Performance

This article presents a standardized technique to evaluate the navigation performance (position, velocity, and principal axes) of an airborne system and develop an efficient methodology to define the number of target data points to process during the planning phases of testing.

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Multiagent Federated Learning, Interoperability, and Virtual-Physical Co-simulation

The composition of different types of terrains and presence of a variety of objects and artifacts in a real environment are always evolving.

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Data-Optimized Human-Machine Teaming With Robotic Wingmen

The 2022 National Defense Strategy directs the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) to urgently act to strengthen the U.S. military against its pacing challenge—the People’s Republic of China (PRC).

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Screening Low-Flammability Polymers Through Chemistry-Aware ML

Marine and aerospace vessels have stringent flammability requirements, defined through the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) E1354 Cone Calorimetry standard [1], to protect those onboard Navy vessels in case of fire emergencies.

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Aligning the Navy’s Fleet Experimentation With Capability Development

Amidst the crashing surf of a remote coastline, two U.S. Navy sailors clad in black wetsuits and protective helmets carry the MK18 Mod 1 Swordfish unmanned underwater vehicle (UUV) toward the open ocean

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Pandora

A toolkit for GPS contested navigation M&S.

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Investigating Low Global-Warming-Potential (GWP) Refrigerants for Military Transport Applications

The ongoing phasedown of hydrofluorocarbons and other high global-warming-potential (GWP) refrigerants has profound implications for the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD).

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Where can combatant commands access established, international agreements allowing/enabling science and technology collaboration (i.e., information exchange, meetings, experiments, field tests, field observations, training and exercises)?

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What are alternative materials to the D6AC steel round bar per General Dynamics specification FMS-1011C used for the A-10 aircraft external fuel tank lug P/N 7540867-03?

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Voice From the Community

Dallas Rosson, PMP

Principal Engineer, Naval Undersea Warfare Center Keyport

Dallas Rosson serves as a principal engineer responsible for engineering oversight, process and policy planning and management, digital transformations, Agile Scrum oversight and training, and project management for various Navy programs. He performs and oversees research utilizing machine learning and artificial intelligence, focusing in logistics, supply chain risk, obsolescence predictions, and diminishing manufacturing sources and material shortages impacts. He is a board member of the Naval Engineering Education Consortium and doctoral fellow at Colorado State University.