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Appendix C: Summary of Sessions
Pages 43-48

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... He mentioned forcing communication between joint forces and command staff and actively using the 1.1 million-person resource pool to do this. He was also tasked with ensuring that the Washington and Norfolk contingents were in sync.
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From page 44...
... Accessed August 30, 2010. 2 For more information, see NRC, 2006, Future Air Force Needs for Suriability, Washington, D.C.: the National Academies Press.
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... Emerging sensor technologies and trends were high lighted, including biosensors and sensors related to protein engineering, GPS, radio and TV signals, femtosecond lasers, and self-organizing, wireless ad hoc networks. The global sensor grid includes smart buildings and roads, military sensor networks, cell phones, minicameras, and smart appliances.
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... . Many of the advances that drive these developments not only are available commercially but also are found in open-source libraries that provide access to nonstate entities; at the same time, they are also responsible for massive speedups in algorithm performance and provide virtual reality training simulators with which an enemy can develop skills for asymmetric conflicts.
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... Practical hydrocarbon-fueled military sys tems will probably remain below Mach 8, which is where the thermal limit of the fuel heat sink is reached.4 One of the highlighted trends was that while transient hypersonic systems have been flying for years, sustained air-breathing hypersonic systems are just emerging. This presentation also included the tactical advantages of hypersonic systems and made the point that air-breathing hypersonic cruise missiles will significantly challenge air defense systems.
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... The feat of putting an object into space under control is a nontrivial accomplishment that might pose a threat or adversely impact U.S. interests.
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