Location

Howard Johnson Plaza-Hotel, Enterprise Rooms

Start Date

27-4-1995 2:00 PM

End Date

27-4-1995 4:00 PM

Description

Recent downsizing of the NASA and OoO budgets encourages businesses to seek alternate markets for aerospace technologies. Most companies find it difficult to convert the nation's investment in NASA and OoD technologies into credible applications in the public sector. Rockwell (one of the successful leaders in applying technologies into commercial programs) has met this challenge, for example, in applying advanced technologies to assist today's fire fighting community in achieving ever-increasing effectiveness despite their decline budgets. This paper describes several examples of technology conversion to fire fighting applications, including expert systems as decision-makingaids, GPS locators to track equipment and personnel, and fire behavior visualization aids for real-time situation awareness and prediction. This paper also describes integration of technologies into a smoothly functioning integrated system. One example is a new personal command system worn by the fire fighter.

The first and most critical step towards defining credible technology applications is understanding of real customer needs, both obvious and latent The examples provide a glimpse of how to succeed in this process.

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Aerospace Technology as Applied to Everyday Life

Session Chairman: William Gasko, Director, Center for Technology Commercialization

Session Organizer: Chris Cook

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Paper Session III-B - Harvesting the NASA and DoD Investment for the Public Good

Howard Johnson Plaza-Hotel, Enterprise Rooms

Recent downsizing of the NASA and OoO budgets encourages businesses to seek alternate markets for aerospace technologies. Most companies find it difficult to convert the nation's investment in NASA and OoD technologies into credible applications in the public sector. Rockwell (one of the successful leaders in applying technologies into commercial programs) has met this challenge, for example, in applying advanced technologies to assist today's fire fighting community in achieving ever-increasing effectiveness despite their decline budgets. This paper describes several examples of technology conversion to fire fighting applications, including expert systems as decision-makingaids, GPS locators to track equipment and personnel, and fire behavior visualization aids for real-time situation awareness and prediction. This paper also describes integration of technologies into a smoothly functioning integrated system. One example is a new personal command system worn by the fire fighter.

The first and most critical step towards defining credible technology applications is understanding of real customer needs, both obvious and latent The examples provide a glimpse of how to succeed in this process.

 

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