Our Mission
WSTIAC provides the DoD and user communities
with timely and authoritative information on key R&D concepts, results, and
trends; applications and processes; and assessment of international R&D technology.
WSTIAC monitors and extracts related information, including but not limited to, the
science, technology, and acquisition of conventional and directed energy weapon systems
technology and related guidance, intelligence gathering systems, training, analyses,
databases, model repositories, laboratory studies, testing, hardware, components, systems,
and subsystems. The systems and subsystems include, but are not limited to, aircraft,
ships, satellites, guns, ordnance, missiles, rockets, bombs, submunitions, projectiles,
mines/ countermines, munitions-dispersing canisters, lasers and high power microwaves,
intelligence gathering systems, guidance and control, command guidance communications
links and undersea weapons.
Technical areas of interest include military systems and
supporting equipment; instrument and seeker development and test; manufacturing process
development; system and subsystem simulation; development of computational techniques and
hardware; control actuators and power sources; sensors for gathering and updating
information; aerodynamic and reaction jet control devices; inertial components and system
developments: GPS; guidance aided fuzing; energy management for navigation law profiles;
special test equipment and techniques; theoretical performance computations; analytical
test techniques; component design criteria; operational serviceability; maintenance and
logistics equipment; training systems, and specialized RDT&E systems; models,
simulations, and basic science and technology activities; environmental protection; and
materials areas specifically related to conventional and directed energy weapon systems
technology. |
