Dov
Zakheim.
Not many Americans know who he is, but they ignore him at their own peril.
If for no other reason, a dual Israeli-American citizen as Comptroller and
Chief Financial Officer of the United States Dept. of Defense should raise
some eyebrows. He was also President Bush's senior foreign policy advisor
during the 2000 campaign.
He was (is?) Corporate VP1
at System Planning Corporation, a major player in the "Homeland Security"
industry. One of the products that SysPlan sells is the Command
Transmitter System, a remote control system for planes, boats, missiles
and other vehicles2 . It's highly customable and configurable
to interface with an almost limitless number of vehicle types.
The remote control theory of
9/11 looks a little better every day.
System Planning Corproation's
Command Transmitter Systems (CTS) provide remote control and flight
termination functions through a fully-redundant self-contained solid-state
system.
Exciter
The exciter incorporates state-of-the-art Direct-Digital-Synthesis
technology to simultaneously generate an
RF
carrier and up to 6 of 20 available standard
IRIG-B
tones. It has 20 watts of output power and an internal ferrite
isolator. The exciter may also be used as a standalone unit.
High-Power Amplifier
The high-power amplifier (HPA)
is solid-state, dependable, and cool running, allowing continuous 1-kW
output power at temperatures from 0o
to 50oC,
and from sea level to 30,000 feet
AMSL.
The Command Transmitter System is MIL-STD-461C qualified and designed
to military standards for high
MTBF
and continuous 24-hour-per-day operation.
State-of-the-art
CMOS
micro-controllers provide full fault detection and reporting.
High-power ferrite isolators allow full-power operation with antenna
VSWRs
up to 2:1. The HPA
is designed for graceful degradation, which allows high-output power
operation even with several amplifier modules inoperative. As an
optional feature, each
HPA sub-system is
provided with an RF
switch matrix that allows real-time replacement of
HPA
units.
External modulation inputs
may be used to modulate the transmitters with externally-generated
tones from 10 Hz to 100 kHz.
The system can be switched
automatically or manually between transmitters. Automatic switching to
the redudant
system is completed in less than 5ms upon detection of an internal
fault or at preset RF
power thresholds. The system is mounted in two standard 60"-high racks
for easy installation in mobile platforms. The roller-bearing,
tiltable
rack slides allow easy access within the chassis for low
MTTR.
CTS generally ships with front panel button operation for broadcast
frequency and tones. Add-on options are available from
SPC
for remote control features. For more information on an integrated
control system, see
SPC's
Flight Termination System
Download a
CTS
brochure.
CTS
Specifications |
Performance Feature |
FTS Specification |
Frequency Range:
|
400-550 MHz in 100-kHz
steps |
RF
Output Power: |
Exciter: 20 Watts;
HPA:
1 kW |
RF
Power Control: |
1-dB steps, 60-dB
total range |
Permissible Antenna
VSWR:
|
> 2:1 continuously, 50
ohms nom. |
Harmonics:
|
< -50
dBc
at 1 kW |
Spurious: |
< -80
dBc
at 1 kW |
Modulation:
|
FM |
Deviation: |
± 300 kHz |
Modulation Range: |
Internal: 7.5-73.95
kHz (IRIG-B
tone frequencies) |
Prime Power: |
180-228
VAC
3-phase Wye
connection, 47-63 Hz; 5
kVA
maximum per rack, two connectors required (supplied); entrance at
bottom center of each rack
Local Control, RF
Power Monitor, and Exciter are supplied 120
VAC
nom. single-phase by the
HPA
power supply |
Cooling: |
Forced air; all
exhausts through rear panels |
Controls and Indicators |
Local Control: |
- Automatic or manual
- Either transmitter
as primary or secondary Local/Remote
- Alarm reset and
audio alarm disable
- System fault
- Overtemperature
fault
- Power on/off
|
RF
Power Monitor: |
- Forward and
reflected RF
output power level
- Forward and
reflected RF
output power fault
- Overtemperature
|
Exciter: |
- Local/Remote
- Carrier enable,
carrier on
- RF
output power attenuator
- RF
carrier frequency
- Selected audio tone
(up to 6 of 20)
- Deviation
- Deviation monitor
- Compressor on/off
and limit set
- Overtemperature
fault
- Power on/off
|
HPA: |
Overtemperature |
HPA
Power Supply: |
- Line power
(indicators)
- System power
(circuit breaker/switch)
- HPA
28-volt power (circuit breakers/switches,Indicators)
- Overtemperature
|
Dimensions: |
2 standard 19" racks,
32" deep and 60" high |
Antenna Connectors: |
Female type LC,
mounted on left-rear upper rack surfaces |
Weight: |
Approx. 800 lb/rack |
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writes:
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Dov
S. Zakheim:
Dov
S. Zakheim
is Corporate Vice President of System Planning Corporation (SPC),
a high-technology, research, analysis, and manufacturing firm based in
Arlington, Virginia. He is also Chief Executive Officer of
SPC International Corporation,
a subsidiary of SPC
that specializes in political, military, and economic consulting, and
international sales and analysis. In addition, Dr.
Zakheim
serves as Consultant to the Secretary of Defense and the Under Secretary
of Defense for Policy. He is an Adjunct Senior Fellow for Asian Studies
of the Council on Foreign Relations, Adjunct Scholar of the Heritage
Foundation, and a Senior Advisor at the Center for International and
Strategic Studies.
From 1985 until March 1987, Dr.
Zakheim
was Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Planning and Resources. In
that capacity, he played an active role in the Department's system
acquisition and strategic planning processes and guided Department of
Defense policy in a number of international economic
fora.
He also successfully negotiated numerous arms cooperation agreements
with various U.S. allies.
Dr. Zakheim
served the Reagan Administration in a variety of other senior Department
of Defense posts from 1981 through 1985. He had served previously as
Principal Analyst with the National Security and International Affairs
Division of the Congressional Budget Office.
A graduate of Columbia University, New York, where he earned his B.A.,
Summa Cum Laude and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, Dr.
Zakheim
also studied at the London School of Economics. Dr.
Zakheim
earned his doctorate in economics and politics at St.
Antony's
College, University of Oxford, where he was a National Science
Foundation Graduate Fellow, a Columbia College
Kellett
Fellow, and a post-doctoral Research Fellow. He has served as Adjunct
Professor at the National War College, Yeshiva University, and Columbia
University and as Presidential Scholar and Adjunct Professor at Trinity
College, Hartford, CT.
Dr. Zakheim
served for two terms as a Presidential appointee to the United States
Commission for the Preservation of America's Heritage Abroad. In 1997 he
was appointed by Secretary of Defense Cohen to the Task Force on Defense
Reform. In May 1998 Secretary Cohen named him to the first Board of
Visitors of the Department of Defense Overseas Regional Schools. In
February 2000 he was appointed to the Defense Science Board Task Force
on the Impact of DoD
Acquisition Policies on the Health of the Defense Industry.
Dr. Zakheim
writes, lectures, and provides media commentary on national defense and
foreign policy issues, both domestically and internationally, including
appearances on major U.S. network news telecasts, CNN's
Newshour,
Larry King Live, BBC Arab and World Service, and Israeli, Swedish, and
Japanese television. He is a columnist for the Jerusalem Post, a regular
contributor to Defense News, and an editorial board member of Israel
Affairs and of The Round Table (the Commonwealth Journal of
International Affairs). He serves on review panels for the Wilson Center
for International Scholars, the United States Institute of Peace, and
the U.S. Naval Institute. He is the author of Flight of the
Lavi:
Inside a U.S.-Israeli Crisis (Brassey's,
1996), Congress and National Security in the Post-Cold War Era (The
Nixon Center, 1998), and numerous articles and chapters in books. Dr.
Zakheim
is also a trustee of the Foreign Policy Research Institute; serves on
the Board of Directors of Search for Common Ground and of Friends of the
Jewish Chapel of the United States Naval Academy; and is a member of the
Council on Foreign Relations and other professional organizations. Dr.
Zakheim
is a member of the advisory boards of the Center for Security Policy,
the Initiative for Peace and Cooperation in the Middle East, and the
American Jewish Committee.
Dr. Zakheim
is the recipient of the Department of Defense Distinguished Public
Service Medal (1986), the Bronze Palm to the
DoD
Distinguished Public Service Medal (1987), Congressional Budget Office
Director's Award for Outstanding Service (1979), and the
SPC
Director's Award for Outstanding Service (1997).
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COMMAND TRANSMITTER SYSTEM (CTS)
The CTS at the Sea Range provides safe, controlled testing of unmanned
targets, platforms and missiles, including ballistic missiles and other
long-range vehicles.
The CTS is a tunable
UHF FM transmitter designed for ground use in controlling guided
missiles, pilotless aircraft and pilotless boats.
It delivers a nominal 750 watts of
RF
power to the antenna (rated at 1 kW with a minimum of 500 watts). The
RF
signal is frequency modulated by selected tones (IRIG
20 tone format) that correspond to particular control functions of the
missile, aircraft or boat. Four of these systems are located at Laguna
Peak and three are located on
SNI.
The fourth system at SNI
is expected to be operational in fiscal year 1997.
Control of target vehicles allows a specific test or threat geometry to
be produced for weapons systems tests or Fleet training. The CTS may be
controlled at the site or remotely from the OCRs at Point
Mugu.
This allows an operator to control a
pilotless
aircraft or drone throughout the Sea Range or control boats and ship
targets within about 40 miles of the active transmitter site. Area of
coverage is shown in Figure 7-5. The CTS is used for control of airborne
targets such as VANDAL, AQM-37C and aerial tows, and seaborne targets
such as the SEPTAR
and Mobile Ship Target (MST). The BQM-74E is sometimes flown using the
CTS when shortages of DKW-3 equipment occur.
In addition to the fixed site capability, the Test Wing's NP-3D aircraft
can be configured to provide airborne CTS functions as an
over-the-horizon repeater or "stand-alone" transmitter."
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