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Air Force range managers are responsible for scheduling the ranges and infrastructures units need for critical, realistic testing and training, sometimes on short notice. They must also supply associated requirements, which requires information and understanding. To aid this, the authors offer an example method that marries the Center Scheduling Enterprise with an update of an existing RAND tool (provided on CD).
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The U.S. Air Force's KC-10 air refueling fleet has been in service for 25 years without a major avionics upgrade. Without modernization, the KC-10 will not be in compliance with upcoming air traffic management mandates regulating the minimum allowed communication, navigation, and surveillance capabilities.
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In this report, RAND outlines a comprehensive set of recommendations intended to help the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) strengthen the party process, create a more expansive statement of causation, modernize investigative procedures, streamline internal operating procedures, better manage resources, maintain a strategic view of staffing, streamline training practices, improve facilities for engineering and training.
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Reports the results of a November 1994 conference held by RAND in Amsterdam, which brought together experts and stakeholders from different countries to identify key airport safety policy challenges and to discuss possible solutions.
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The evolution of GPS into an information system with a substantial international user community has raised complex policy questions for U.S. decisionmakers on a variety of issues affecting national defense, commerce, and foreign policy.
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Distributed problem solving, or multiple-agent problem solving, refers to the process by which several agents interact to achieve goals. This Note describes the development of a framework for implementation of multiple cooperative agents. It also describes experiments and demonstrations with different strategies of cooperation, using air-traffic control and remotely piloted vehicle fleet coordination as the exemplary task domains.
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Results of an experimental investigation of techniques for distributed problem solving. Strategies of cooperation are discussed in a domain-independent fashion, and then in the context of a specific application: collision avoidance in air traffic control. The Note contrasts the methodologies, difficulties, and opportunities of distributed and centralized problem solving.
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Human roles, technical issues, and economic implications for each scenario are discussed, leading to the conclusion that human skills are an integral part of the ATC system and should be retained but extended via the Shared Control scenario.
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A proposed new identification system in which all U.S. aircraft and all ZI penetrating aircraft would be required to carry a transmitter emitting altitude and ID information. This system would enable ground stations to obtain full position informatio...
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