%0 Book %A National Research Council %T Making Sense of Ballistic Missile Defense: An Assessment of Concepts and Systems for U.S. Boost-Phase Missile Defense in Comparison to Other Alternatives %@ 978-0-309-21610-4 %D 2012 %U https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/13189/making-sense-of-ballistic-missile-defense-an-assessment-of-concepts %> https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/13189/making-sense-of-ballistic-missile-defense-an-assessment-of-concepts %I The National Academies Press %C Washington, DC %G English %K Conflict and Security Issues %P 296 %X The Committee on an Assessment of Concepts and Systems for U.S. Boost-Phase Missile Defense in Comparison to Other Alternatives set forth to provide an assessment of the feasibility, practicality, and affordability of U.S. boost-phase missile defense compared with that of the U.S. non-boost missile defense when countering short-, medium-, and intermediate-range ballistic missile threats from rogue states to deployed forces of the United States and its allies and defending the territory of the United States against limited ballistic missile attack. To provide a context for this analysis of present and proposed U.S. boost-phase and non-boost missile defense concepts and systems, the committee considered the following to be the missions for ballistic missile defense (BMD): protecting of the U.S. homeland against nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction (WMD); or conventional ballistic missile attacks; protection of U.S. forces, including military bases, logistics, command and control facilities, and deployed forces, including military bases, logistics, and command and control facilities. They also considered deployed forces themselves in theaters of operation against ballistic missile attacks armed with WMD or conventional munitions, and protection of U.S. allies, partners, and host nations against ballistic-missile-delivered WMD and conventional weapons. Consistent with U.S. policy and the congressional tasking, the committee conducted its analysis on the basis that it is not a mission of U.S. BMD systems to defend against large-scale deliberate nuclear attacks by Russia or China. Making Sense of Ballistic Missile Defense: An Assessment of Concepts and Systems for U.S. Boost-Phase Missile Defense in Comparison to Other Alternatives suggests that great care should be taken by the U.S. in ensuring that negotiations on space agreements not adversely impact missile defense effectiveness. This report also explains in further detail the findings of the committee, makes recommendations, and sets guidelines for the future of ballistic missile defense research. %0 Book %T The Global Positioning System: The Path From Research to Human Benefit %D 1996 %U https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/9479/the-global-positioning-system-the-path-from-research-to-human %> https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/9479/the-global-positioning-system-the-path-from-research-to-human %I The National Academies Press %C Washington, DC %G English %K %P 8 %0 Book %A National Research Council %T Navy's Needs in Space for Providing Future Capabilities %@ 978-0-309-09677-5 %D 2005 %U https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/11299/navys-needs-in-space-for-providing-future-capabilities %> https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/11299/navys-needs-in-space-for-providing-future-capabilities %I The National Academies Press %C Washington, DC %G English %K Conflict and Security Issues %P 266 %X The United States must operate successfully in space to help assure its security and economic well being. The Department of the Navy is a major user of space capabilities, although those capabilities are now primarily provided by DOD, the Air Force, and NOAA. Following a DOD assessment of national space security management in 2001, the Navy commissioned a Panel to Review Space to assess Navy space policy and strategy. As an extension of that review, the NRC was requested by the Navy to examine its needs in space for providing future operational and technical capabilities. This report presents a discussion of the strategic framework of future space needs, the roles and responsibilities for meeting those needs, an assessment of Navy support to space mission areas, and a proposed vision for fulfilling Naval forces space needs. %0 Book %A National Research Council %T Continuity of NOAA Satellites %@ 978-0-309-05675-5 %D 1997 %U https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/5588/continuity-of-noaa-satellites %> https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/5588/continuity-of-noaa-satellites %I The National Academies Press %C Washington, DC %G English %K Space and Aeronautics %K Earth Sciences %P 62 %0 Book %A National Academy of Engineering %E Davis, Lance A. %E Enge, Per K. %E Gao, Grace X. %T Global Navigation Satellite Systems: Report of a Joint Workshop of the National Academy of Engineering and the Chinese Academy of Engineering %@ 978-0-309-22275-4 %D 2012 %U https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/13292/global-navigation-satellite-systems-report-of-a-joint-workshop-of %> https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/13292/global-navigation-satellite-systems-report-of-a-joint-workshop-of %I The National Academies Press %C Washington, DC %G English %K Engineering and Technology %K Space and Aeronautics %P 284 %X The Global Positioning System (GPS) has revolutionized the measurement of position, velocity, and time. It has rapidly evolved into a worldwide utility with more than a billion receiver sets currently in use that provide enormous benefits to humanity: improved safety of life, increased productivity, and wide-spread convenience. Global Navigation Satellite Systems summarizes the joint workshop on Global Navigation Satellite Systems held jointly by the U.S. National Academy of Engineering and the Chinese Academy of Engineering on May 24-25, 2011 at Hongqiao Guest Hotel in Shanghai, China. "We have one world, and only one set of global resources. It is important to work together on satellite navigation. Competing and cooperation is like Yin and Yang. They need to be balanced," stated Dr. Charles M. Vest, President of the National Academy of Engineering, in the workshop's opening remarks. Global Navigation Satellite Systems covers the objectives of the workshop, which explore issues of enhanced interoperability and interchangeability for all civil users aimed to consider collaborative efforts for countering the global threat of inadvertent or illegal interference to GNSS signals, promotes new applications for GNSS, emphasizing productivity, safety, and environmental protection. The workshop featured presentations chosen based on the following criteria: they must have relevant engineering/technical content or usefulness; be of mutual interest; offer the opportunity for enhancing GNSS availability, accuracy, integrity, and/or continuity; and offer the possibility of recommendations for further actions and discussions. Global Navigation Satellite Systems is an essential report for engineers, workshop attendees, policy makers, educators, and relevant government agencies. %0 Book %A National Academy of Engineering %A National Academy of Engineering %T Memorial Tributes: Volume 9 %@ 978-0-309-07411-7 %D 2001 %U https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/10094/memorial-tributes-volume-9 %> https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/10094/memorial-tributes-volume-9 %I The National Academies Press %C Washington, DC %G English %K Biography and Autobiography %P 326 %X This is the 9th Volume in the series Memorial Tributes compiled by the National Academy of Engineering as a personal remembrance of the lives and outstanding achievements of its members and foreign associates. These volumes are intended to stand as an enduring record of the many contributions of engineers and engineering to the benefit of humankind. In most cases, the authors of the tributes are contemporaries or colleagues who had personal knowledge of the interests and the engineering accomplishments of the deceased. Through its members and foreign associates, the Academy carries out the responsibilities for which it was established in 1964. Under the charter of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering was formed as a parallel organization of outstanding engineers. Members are elected on the basis of significant contributions to engineering theory and practice and to the literature of engineering or on the basis of demonstrated unusual accomplishments in the pioneering of new and developing fields of technology. The National Academies share a responsibility to advise the federal government on matters of science and technology. The expertise and credibility that the National Academy of Engineering brings to that task stem directly from the abilities, interests, and achievements of our members and foreign associates, our colleagues and friends, whose special gifts we remember in this book. %0 Book %A National Research Council %T Solar and Space Physics: A Science for a Technological Society %@ 978-0-309-16428-3 %D 2013 %U https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/13060/solar-and-space-physics-a-science-for-a-technological-society %> https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/13060/solar-and-space-physics-a-science-for-a-technological-society %I The National Academies Press %C Washington, DC %G English %K Space and Aeronautics %K Math, Chemistry, and Physics %P 466 %X From the interior of the Sun, to the upper atmosphere and near-space environment of Earth, and outward to a region far beyond Pluto where the Sun's influence wanes, advances during the past decade in space physics and solar physics—the disciplines NASA refers to as heliophysics—have yielded spectacular insights into the phenomena that affect our home in space. Solar and Space Physics, from the National Research Council's (NRC's) Committee for a Decadal Strategy in Solar and Space Physics, is the second NRC decadal survey in heliophysics. Building on the research accomplishments realized during the past decade, the report presents a program of basic and applied research for the period 2013-2022 that will improve scientific understanding of the mechanisms that drive the Sun's activity and the fundamental physical processes underlying near-Earth plasma dynamics, determine the physical interactions of Earth's atmospheric layers in the context of the connected Sun-Earth system, and enhance greatly the capability to provide realistic and specific forecasts of Earth's space environment that will better serve the needs of society. Although the recommended program is directed primarily at NASA and the National Science Foundation for action, the report also recommends actions by other federal agencies, especially the parts of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration charged with the day-to-day (operational) forecast of space weather. In addition to the recommendations included in this summary, related recommendations are presented in this report.