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[Uvscanada.org] UVS Canada: In addition, Rockwell Collins TDR 94/94D transponders are approved by the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) in accordance with ETSO-2C112A and are compliant with the latest draft ETSO-2C112B standards to support both Elementary and Enhanced Surveillance. Elementary and Enhanced Surveillance allows the transponder to reply to ground-based Secondary Surveillance Radar interrogations supplying air traffic controllers with enhanced surveillance information.

 [Machinewatch.blogspot.com] machinewatch - a wary eye on the convergence: NASA Has a Job for You - SpaceRef: "At a minimum, the contractor shall have direct technical expertise in: autonomous, adaptive, and evolvable control systems, artificial intelligence, planning and scheduling, electro-mechanical systems (robotics), knowledge-based systems, soft computing (including neural networks), prognostic signal analysis, model-based diagnostic reasoning, fault-tolerant computing hardware and networking, tele-operation of remote and mobile platforms, data mining, integrated design, human-centered computing, human/computer interactions, and system administration of a distributed heterogeneous network of workstations."

 [Jefallbright.net] Military | Jef's web files: Unlike Star Wars, which faded into the realm of misbegotten high-tech dreams, the new system relies on agile but fairly ordinary rockets to smash incoming warheads rather than nuclear-powered lasers in space. In the new debate, Pentagon planners see the system as a bulwark against the ultimate calamity, a nuclear attack, while skeptics ridicule it as a defense that will not work against a threat that does not exist.

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