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Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance. The Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance is a non-profit organization advocating the development and deployment of missile defense for the United States and its allies. Founded in 2002, by Riki Ellison, it promotes United States Government missile defense strategies and technologies. The organization is based in Alexandria, Virginia, just outside Washington D.C.

Activities
MDAA reports open source information pertaining to missile defense strategies, technologies, and tests. MDAA also advocates effective missile defense strategies to members of the United States Government. MDAA's website contains information on U.S. and allied missile defense systems, cooperative international missile defense efforts, and information on ballistic missile threats around the world for use by the public.

MDAA hosts a variety of missile defense related events around the world. It hosts an annual Missile Defender of the Year Award Ceremony in Alexandria each year, recognizing excellence among the U.S. missile defense operators from the U.S. Army, Navy, Air Force, and National Guard. The organization also holds annual Defender of the Year events with the Republic of Korea, NATO, the United Arab Emirates, Alaska, and at U.S. Northern Command/North American Aerospace Defense Command. MDAA has been operating the SHIELD program at USC since 2021. The SHIELD Executive program works with USC's Price School of Public Policy and Viterbi School of Engineering to educate senior leaders from the military, government, and innovation technological communities about the intersection of public policy and engineering. It connects theory and practical applications for national security purposes. Each 8-month cohort starts in September and finishes in April of the following year. September 2022 starts the second annual cohort of the SHIELD program's inception. The 2023 USC SHIELD cohort developing leaders in policy, space, and technology for national security.

Since 2014, MDAA hosts regular roundtable discussions on missile defense issues in the U.S. Capitol. Topics have included missile defense of the U.S. homeland, and missiles defense radars and sensors, and missile defense from a military operations perspective. These events typically feature remarks from recently retired military leaders with missile defense expertise.

References

See also 
Astroturfing
Militarization of space
Strategic Defence Initiative

External links
 
 Facebook Page

Missile defense
Military diplomacy
Foreign relations of the United States
501(c)(3) organizations
Organizations established in 2002
2002 establishments in the United States
ANBO V. The ANBO V was a parasol wing monoplane training aircraft designed for the Lithuanian Army in 1931.  A developed version, the ANBO 51 followed in 1936 and 1938.

Design

The ANBO V was of conventional configuration with fixed, tailwheel undercarriage. The pilot and instructor sat in tandem open cockpits. The prototype was powered by a Walter Vega I engine, but the small series produced had either Walter Venus or Armstrong Siddeley Genet Major engines.

In 1936, an improved version appeared, designated ANBO 51, which was Genet-powered and featured strengthened wings.

The ANBO 51 was a fabric covered aircraft with a welded steel tube fuselage structure and steel framed rudder and elevators. The parasol wings were attached to the lower fuselage with pairs of struts on each side, assisted by further centre section struts.  The wings and fixed tail surfaces were wooden structures.

Operators

Lithuanian Air Force

Specifications (ANBO 51)
Data from Jane's All the World's Aircraft 1938

References

Bibliography

 
Ramoška, Gytis, Numylėtas anbukas, Plieno Sparnai Nr. 8 2006 m., https://www.plienosparnai.lt/page.php?28

External links

 In Lithuanian

Single-engined tractor aircraft
Parasol-wing aircraft
1930s Lithuanian military trainer aircraft
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Aircraft first flown in 1931
AGATE (architecture framework). AGATE (Atelier de Gestion de l'ArchiTEcture des systèmes d'information et de communication) is a framework for modeling computer or communication systems architecture.

It is promoted by the Délégation Générale pour l'Armement (DGA), the French government agency which conducts development and evaluation programs for weapon systems for the French military. All major DGA weapons and information technology system procurements are required to document their proposed system architecture using the set of views prescribed in AGATE.

AGATE is similar to DoDAF, promoted by U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) or MODAF, promoted by UK Ministry of Defence (MoD). It is only available in French.

Scope
AGATE defines architectural views for systems and systems of systems, covering:
 Stakes and objectives of the system
 Description of the related organizations
 processes and information flows
 Security requirements, in compliance with DGA policy
 Services of the system, and traceability with operational needs
 Logical architecture of the system
 Physical architecture of the systems, and hardware and software products used in this architecture
 Life cycle of the system

AGATE Views
An AGATE model is organized into 5 views:
 Stakes, Objectives, and context about the system
 Business architecture: describes organizations and Business processes managed by the modelized Information system
 Service-oriented architecture: describes the Services of the system.
 Logical architecture of the system
 Physical architecture of the systems, and hardware and software products used in this architecture

Representation
The AGATE meta-model is defined using a UML representation.

Visio elements for the AGATE representation are provided by the DGA.

History
The first DGA initiative for a standardized French architecture framework was initialized in July 2001, under the acronym AMAC. The denomination was changed to AGATE in November of the same year.

March 2004: Version 2.1
December 2005: Version 3

See also
Délégation Générale pour l'Armement
Department of Defense Architecture Framework (DoDAF)
NATO Architecture Framework (NAF)
British Ministry of Defence Architecture Framework (MODAF)

References

External links
AGATE page on French Defense procurement website 
short presentation of AGATE on French Defense procurement portal

Enterprise architecture frameworks
Military acquisition
Military of France
ANBO VI. 

The ANBO VI was a parasol-wing monoplane designed for the Lithuanian Army as a trainer in 1933, based on the ANBO III. It featured revised landing gear and a more powerful engine.

Operators

Lithuanian Air Force

Specifications (ANBO VI)

References

 
 Lithuanian Aviation Museum

Single-engined tractor aircraft
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1930s Lithuanian military trainer aircraft
Parasol-wing aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1933
Chauncey Starr. Chauncey Starr (April 14, 1912 – April 17, 2007) was an American electrical engineer and an expert in nuclear energy.

Born in Newark, New Jersey, Starr received an electrical engineering degree in 1932 and a Ph.D. in physics in 1935 from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Starr was vice president of Rockwell International and president of its Atomics International Division. In 1967 he became the dean of the UCLA School of Engineering and Applied Science.  Six years later he founded the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) and was its first president. He was the first president emeritus of EPRI.

Starr was a member of the board of directors at the George C. Marshall Institute, a member of the board of science advisors of the Science and Environmental Policy Project (SEPP) and, like most other members of that board, he signed the Leipzig Declaration on Global Climate Change.

Starr died at his home in Atherton, California, from natural causes. The day before his death he celebrated his 95th birthday at an EPRI ceremony.

Starr was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1965. He received in 1979 the Walter H. Zinn Award from the American Nuclear Society, and in 1990 he was awarded the National Medal of Technology by then President George H. W. Bush. He was a recipient of the Harold Pender Award in 1975.

Selected publications
 Starr, C. (1969), "Social benefit versus technological risk", Science 165 (3899), pp. 1232-1238

References

External links
Chauncey Starr profile via RPI
Chauncy Starr interview via EPRI
Chauncey Starr death notice via EPRI

American nuclear engineers
American electrical engineers
Engineers from California
Manhattan Project people
1912 births
2007 deaths
Atomics International
National Medal of Technology recipients
UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science faculty
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute alumni
20th-century American engineers
People from Atherton, California
Karo aviacijos tiekimo skyrius. Karo Aviacijos Tiekimo Skyrius was the Army Aviation Workshops of Lithuania, established at Kaunas. The facility was considerably modernized under the leadership of Antanas Gustaitis, who also designed a variety of aircraft to be built there in small series in the 1920s and 1930s under the designation ANBO.

Aircraft
 ANBO I
 ANBO II
 ANBO III
 ANBO IV
 ANBO V
 ANBO VI
 ANBO VIII

Sources

References 

Aircraft manufacturers of Lithuania
Military history of Lithuania
Defunct manufacturing companies of Lithuania
Stanford Joint Program in Design. The Joint Program in Design (also called the Graduate Design Program or simply the Design Program) was a graduate program jointly offered by the Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Department of Art & Art History at Stanford University. It was discontinued with the last cohort of students graduating in Spring 2017 and is succeeded by the Stanford Design Impact Engineering Master's Degree. The program offered degrees in Mechanical Engineering and in Fine Arts/Design and was closely connected with the Stanford d.school (The d.school is not one of the seven schools at Stanford and does not grant degrees).

The program was founded in 1958, and had three full-time faculty. It maintained close links with the design and technology firms of nearby Silicon Valley.

History

Stanford's Design program dates from 1958 when Professor John E. Arnold, formerly of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, first proposed the idea that design engineering should be human-centered. This was a radical concept in the era of Sputnik and the early Cold War. Building on Arnold's work, Bob McKim (Emeritus, Engineering) along with Matt Kahn (Art), created the Product Design major and the graduate-level Joint Program in Design. This curriculum was formalized in the mid-1960s, making the Joint Program in Design (JPD) one of the first inter-departmental programs at Stanford or other nationally prominent Universities. The key texts in those days were McKim's recently published Experiences in Visual Thinking, and Jim Adams', Conceptual Blockbusting, a Guide to Better Ideas. The "loft" was a bootleg attic space in Building 500 that the University didn't know about (and the faculty pretended didn't exist). ME101: Visual Thinking was the introductory class for all product design students and the class included four "voyages" in the Imaginarium, a 16-foot geodesic dome that presented state-of-the art multimedia shows designed to stimulate creativity.

The Loft moved to its current location behind the Old Firehouse. Bob McKim went Emeritus; Matt Kahn, Rolf Faste and David Kelley continued instruction in the tradition of merging art, science and needfinding though the 1980s and 1990s. Today ME101 is still taught, although the Mechanical Engineering Department and the Department of Art no longer continue their historic collaboration with faculty drawn from both schools in its instruction.

See also
 Stanford Hasso Plattner Institute of Design ("the d.school")
Silicon Valley
 Leadership
 Entrepreneurship
 Globalization
 Social responsibility

References

Joint Program in Design
1958 establishments in California
Art schools in California
Universities and colleges established in 1958
Art in the San Francisco Bay Area
Lightning rocket. A lightning rocket is a rocket that unravels a conductor, such as a fine copper wire, as it ascends, to conduct lightning charges to the ground. Lightning strikes derived from this process are called "triggered lightning."

Design 
A conducting lightning rod is grounded and positioned alongside the launch tube in communication with the conductive path to thereby control the time and location of a lightning strike from the thundercloud.  The conductor trailed by the rocket can be either a physical wire, or column of ionized gas produced by the engine.  A lightning rocket using solid propellant may have cesium salts added, which produces a conductive path when the exhaust gases are discharged from the rocket.  In a liquid propellant rocket a solution of calcium chloride is used to form the conductive path.

The system consists of a specially designed launch pad with lightning rods and conductors attached.  The launch pad is either controlled wirelessly or via pneumatic line to the control station to prevent the discharge traveling to the control equipment.  The fine copper wire (more recently reinforced with kevlar) is attached to the ground and plays out from the rocket as it ascends.  The initial strike follows this wire and is as a result unusually straight.  As the wire is vaporized by the initial strike, subsequent strikes are more angular in nature and follow the ionization trail of the initial strike.  Rockets of this type are used for both lightning research and lightning control.

Betts system 
The Betts lightning rocket, patented by  Robert E. Betts in 2003, consists of a rocket launcher that is in communication with a detection device that measures the presence of electrostatic and ionic change in close proximity to the rocket launcher that also fires the rocket. This system is designed to control the time and the location of a lightning strike. As the rocket flies to the thundercloud a liquid is expelled aft forming a column in the air of particles that are more electrically conductive than the surrounding air. In a similar fashion to the system employing a solid propellant as the conductive producer this conductive path conducts a lightning strike to ground to thereby control the time and location of a lightning strike from the thundercloud.

References

External links 
 July 25, 2002, triggered lightning video
 Transient Response of a Tall Object to Lightning

Lightning
Journal of Environmental Engineering. The Journal of Environmental Engineering is a monthly engineering journal published by the American Society of Civil Engineers.

The main editor is Dionysios D. Dionysiou of University of Cincinnati.

The journal presents broad interdisciplinary information on the practice and status of research in environmental engineering science, systems engineering, and sanitation. Papers focus on engineering methods; impacts of wastewater collection and treatment; watershed contamination; environmental biology; nonpoint-source pollution on watersheds; air pollution and acid deposition; and solid waste management.

History
As one of ASCE's flagship journals which began publication in 1956, this journal's origin goes back to the publication of the first volume of Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers in 1892. Established originally as Journal of the Sanitary Engineering Division and renamed Journal of the Environmental Engineering Division in 1973, it acquired its current name in 1983.

Indexes
The journal is indexed in Google Scholar, Baidu, Elsevier (Ei Compendex), Clarivate Analytics (Web of Science), ProQuest, Civil engineering database, TRDI, OCLC (WorldCat), IET/INSPEC, Crossref, Scopus, and EBSCOHost.

References

External links 

 ASCE Library

Engineering journals
Environmental engineering
Sewerage
Systems engineering
Systems journals
Waste management journals
American Society of Civil Engineers academic journals
Academic journals established in 1956
Software system. A software system is a system of intercommunicating components based on software forming part of a computer system (a combination of hardware and software). It "consists of a number of separate programs, configuration files, which are used to set up these programs, system documentation, which describes the structure of the system, and user documentation, which explains how to use the system".

A software system differs from a computer program or software. While a computer program is generally a set of instructions (source, or object code) that perform a specific task, a software system is more or an encompassing concept with many more components such as specification, test results, end-user documentation, maintenance records, etc.

The use of the term software system is at times related to the application of systems theory approaches in the context of software engineering. A software system consists of several separate computer programs and associated configuration files, documentation, etc., that operate together. The concept is used in the study of large and complex software, because it focuses on the major components of software and their interactions. It is also related to the field of software architecture.

Software systems are an active area of research for groups interested in software engineering in particular and systems engineering in general. Academic journals like the Journal of Systems and Software (published by Elsevier) are dedicated to the subject.

The ACM Software System Award is an annual award that honors people or an organization "for developing a system that has had a lasting influence, reflected in contributions to concepts, in commercial acceptance, or both". It has been awarded by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) since 1983, with a cash prize sponsored by IBM.

Categories
Major categories of software systems include those based on application software development, programming software, and system software although the distinction can sometimes be difficult. Examples of software systems include operating systems, computer reservations systems, air traffic control systems, military command and control systems, telecommunication networks, content management systems, database management systems, expert systems, embedded systems, etc.

See also
 ACM Software System Award
 Common layers in an information system logical architecture
 Computer program
 Computer program installation
 Experimental software engineering
 Software bug
 Software architecture
 System software
 Systems theory
 Systems Science
 Systems Engineering
 Software Engineering

References

Systems engineering
Software engineering terminology
Leightonfield. Leightonfield is an industrial locality in south-western Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia.

History
Leightonfield was the site of a munitions factory, where in the period of World War II, more than 3,000 people worked at the plant for the development of military weapons. It was later closed down in August 1945, shortly before the end of the war. 

Currently, it endures as an industrial zone within part of Villawood and is accessible only by train within its railway station.

Geography
Sandwiched between Chester Hill and Villawood, Leightonfield is part of the City of Canterbury-Bankstown and is within the suburb of Villawood. Leightonfield's postcode is 2163.

Commercial area
Leightonfield is exclusively an industrial estate within Villawood that features dozens of warehouses, workshops and factories. It is a prominent manufacturing hub in western Sydney. It has no permanent population.

Transport
It is served by Sydney Trains and various bus routes.

References

City of Canterbury-Bankstown
Sydney localities
EPSI. The École privée des sciences informatiques (EPSI) is a French private school specialized in information technology. EPSI was founded by professionals. The first school was based in Paris. Later on, with the rise of the computer science industry, the school built branches in Bordeaux, Montpellier, Arras then in October 2002 in Nantes and then later in Lyon.

Information about the Administration
Director : Laurent ESPINE

Date of Creation : September 1961

Status : IT Private School

State recognition : The diploma is recognised by the French state : (Journal officiel du 9 septembre 1998)

Applying to EPSI
Profile examination
Meeting
Written tests (psychotechnical)

Level needed to Apply
A level to apply for the BTS (equivalent to HND) degree

The A Level or equivalent diploma is needed to apply for the BTS.

A Bac + 2 (2-year undergraduate degree) is required for the Bachelor (1-year program).

A Bac + 3 (3-year undergraduate degree) is required for the Engineering degree (2-year program).

Academic Curriculum
 Number of years of study
 2 years for the BTS
 1 year for the Bachelor
 2 years for the engineering degree (CSII)
 Approved diplomas by French State :
 BTS Services Informatiques aux Organisations Solutions logicielles et applications métier
 BTS Services Informatiques aux Organisations Solutions d’infrastructure, systèmes et réseaux
 Titre RNCP Niveau II Administrateur Système Réseaux et Bases de Données (Bachelor)
 Titre RNCP Niveau II Concepteur développeur informatique (Bachelor)
 Titre RNCP Niveau I Expert en Informatique et Système d’information (engineering degree)
 University equivalence
 Bac + 2 for the BTS
 Bac + 3 for the Bachelor
 Bac + 5 for the computer science engineering degree

About the school
 Number of Students : 1200 (2005, in the 6 E.P.S.I. sites)
 Number of diplomas given per year : 120
 Number of foreign students : 27
 Permanent teachers : 12
 Associate teachers : 72

External links
 Official School Website

Computer science departments
Engineering universities and colleges in France
Educational institutions established in 1961
1961 establishments in France
Sukhoi Su-31. The Sukhoi Su-31 is a Russian single-engined aerobatic aircraft designed by Sukhoi as a lighter and more powerful version of the Sukhoi Su-29.

Design and development
The design of the aircraft started in 1991 as a single-seat development of the earlier Sukhoi Su-29 with a more powerful Vedeneyev M14PF engine and new landing gear. The low-wing cantilever monoplane first flew in June 1992 as the Su-29T and the first production aircraft flying in 1994.

Variants
Su-29T
Prototype single-seat aerobatic monoplane
Su-31
Production variant with fixed landing gear, sometimes known as the Su-31T.
Su-31M
Improved variant with a pilot extraction system.
Su-31M2
Further improved variant of the Su-31M with weight reduction, single piece canopy/windscreen and larger wing introduced in 1999.
Su-31U
Proposed retractable landing gear variant of the Su-31T.
Su-31X
Export variant of the Su-31T

Specifications

See also

References

External links

 Su-31 Air Races Datasheet 

Su-31
2000s Russian sport aircraft
Aerobatic aircraft
Low-wing aircraft
Aircraft with fixed conventional landing gear
Single-engined piston aircraft
Single-engined tractor aircraft