- Industry: Government; Military
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Viewing Image/Gimbaled Instrumentation Lab-Analog Neural Three-d Experiment. VIGILANTE involves building a small computer (ANTE) offering 1/12 Operation Per Second (OPS), using a mixture of experimental three-dimensional circuitry and commercial components. Project also demonstrates VIRGIL, a gimbaled airborne sensor with visible, experimental UV and quantum-well IR cameras capable of tracking targets that can be detected, identified, and precision-tracked with the ANTE processor.
Industry:Military
Any material or obstruction which absorbs (or attenuates) radiation and thus tends to protect personnel or materials from the effects of a nuclear explosion. A moderately thick layer of any opaque material will provide satisfactory shielding from thermal radiation, but a considerable thickness of material of high density may be needed for nuclear radiation shielding. Electrically continuous housing for a facility, area, or component, attenuates impinging electric and magnetic fields.
Industry:Military
The science of planning and carrying out the movement and maintenance of forces. In its most comprehensive sense, it includes those aspects of military operations which deal with: (1) design and development, acquisition, storage, movement, distribution, maintenance, evacuation, and disposition of materials; (2) movement, evacuation, and hospitalization of personnel; (3) acquisition or construction, maintenance, operation, and disposition of facilities; and (4) acquisition or furnishing of services.
Industry:Military
1. The emission and propagation of waves transmitting energy through space or through some medium; for example, the emission and propagation of electromagnetic, sound, or elastic waves. 2. The energy transmitted by waves through space or some medium; when unqualified, usually refers to electromagnetic radiation. Also known as radiant energy. 3. A stream of particles, such as electrons, neutrons, protons, alpha-particles, or high-energy photons, or a mixture of these. (See Ionizing Radiation, Nuclear Radiation, and Thermal Radiation.)
Industry:Military
1. The intentional changing of an object in any of its physical or chemical characteristics. 2. The assembly or disassembly of parts or objects. 3. The preparation of an object for another operation, transportation, inspection, or storage. 4. Planning, calculating, or the giving or receiving of information. 5. Military action using deployed forces. 6. A military action or the carrying out of a strategic, tactical, service, training, or administrative military mission; the process of carrying on combat, including movement, supply, attack, defense, and maneuvers needed to gain the objectives of any battle or campaign.
Industry:Military
