Location
Howard Johnson Plaza-Hotel, Atlantis/Discovery Rooms
Start Date
21-4-1992 2:00 PM
Description
We justifiably pride ourselves as a nation on our military capabilities, especially since our recent success in Desert Shield/Desert Storm. However, it is very possible that in the mid-90 f s the Federal Express truck driver will have better situation awareness and global connectivity than a fighter pilot.
As not only the Air Force, but the other military services look into the future, it is clear that we will all have to take the maximum advantage of both our newer technologies as well as existing capabilities to leverage costs and systems which can contribute to improved military performance on the battlefield.
This paper suggests some ways in which Air Force Space Command, working with other Air Force major commands, will increase the war fighter's comfort level with .-- and ability to employ -- space systems. Space systems have been around for about thirty years, but their potential contributions to the "trigger puller" at the unit level are just beginning to be investigated and exploited by the operator. A reasonable comparison of how the Air Force air breathing flying community and the space flying community have done business in the past might be the left and right hemispheres of the brain, both "doing their own thing" with very little connecting tissue (corpus colossum) tying them together.
Paper Session I-A - Space Applications - Another Wingman
Howard Johnson Plaza-Hotel, Atlantis/Discovery Rooms
We justifiably pride ourselves as a nation on our military capabilities, especially since our recent success in Desert Shield/Desert Storm. However, it is very possible that in the mid-90 f s the Federal Express truck driver will have better situation awareness and global connectivity than a fighter pilot.
As not only the Air Force, but the other military services look into the future, it is clear that we will all have to take the maximum advantage of both our newer technologies as well as existing capabilities to leverage costs and systems which can contribute to improved military performance on the battlefield.
This paper suggests some ways in which Air Force Space Command, working with other Air Force major commands, will increase the war fighter's comfort level with .-- and ability to employ -- space systems. Space systems have been around for about thirty years, but their potential contributions to the "trigger puller" at the unit level are just beginning to be investigated and exploited by the operator. A reasonable comparison of how the Air Force air breathing flying community and the space flying community have done business in the past might be the left and right hemispheres of the brain, both "doing their own thing" with very little connecting tissue (corpus colossum) tying them together.
