Production comes flying sky high
today we must be on guard in the sky
when it comes to protecting our resources
and national resources
that are so precious to us the
events of weapons are here today.
So presented over destructive
seemingly I'm resistant
to protect the future of America.
The defense techniques of tomorrow had to be discovered.
Now they were discovered in electronics that is our stage
and bursting computers into military service electronics for combat means new
concepts new to know whether you are listening to the heartbeat of the
sage computer.
Every instrument in this room is constantly monitoring testing taking control
and by this is the programming
and operations center for the sage computer which surrounds you.
It can continue as streams of data which it continuously absorbs
and stored on magnetic drums tape
and call data from radar unit Texas towers the
kitchens early warning aircraft ground observer corps want to be
the same nothing to the minute data on all regularly scheduled commercial air
flights. It also packed away information as to the number location
and characteristics of all military craft all anti aircraft all defensive missiles
and the best computer is on the job around the clock with twenty four hour
a day reliability.
It is really two computers but only one is an operating system.
The other with the same vast memory performs a slave checking calculations
and results ready to take over in a matter of seconds
but the master computer for all this is knowledge in one of the new headquarters of
computer defense.
One of the directions centers of what the Air Force calls say beyond the fantastic
a passive or calculation in memory sage possesses the newest
and most revolutionary advance in data processing the display screen a computer
generated visual display on call as needed until sage the
miracle of the computer was its ability to calculate in split seconds
and then provide printed information Sade's needed more than the.
What a lightning ships of about all the Air Force requested from I.B.M.
A computer capable of translating values of changing data into a continuous flow of
interpretation which could be understood at a glance early events required split
second presentations as well as split second calculations given the subject.
I.B.M.
By the latest extension of data processing the displaced the giant picture
to which computer results are instantaneously
and continuously translated into graphic images in Sage Ehrman have the battle
visualize on the computer generated display two floors above the great computers
are the batteries of display scope.
Although they look like the offspring of a marriage between a television tube
and radar screen display scopes do not show physical images transmitted from
elsewhere.
They display the results of the computer's findings stage with its display scope
also has one feature possessed by neither a television or radar screen.
It has memory in case of an American actor.
Not only going to play a picture of the changing air situation be displayed on the
scope but if they are man wishes to see how things got
that way the scope can recall any previous phase of the situation on the computer's
memory by analyzing the past.
Sage can project into the future
the computer can furnish information on the counter measures ability so
that the officer in charge can make his choice as to when and where to find one C.S.
Selected a plan of counter-attack.
Peter guides interceptors
and missiles to the enemy the computer guides the interceptors back to their base
Aladdin's lamp couldn't do more.
What is the most precious commodity that electronics defense wins this time.
Long before the bomber reaches our defense perimeter the computer's memory will
identify his friends
but every flight of planes are identified as most of them in a matter of minutes
time. Everything. This is electronic defense in depth.
And what better reason for an impact of air defense but is this protection enough.
Here is protection to the protection which comes with the possession of weapons of
retaliation.
Just as our defensive powers have been amassing so have our instruments of attack
demands a plane warfare require the fantastic ability of modern computers.
The question was How could the electronic computer be made arable.
Problems of consequence
when designing a computer for ground installation became overwhelming
when it was proposed to redesign them to fit into jet bombers.
First the problem of space
and weight the interior of a modern bomber is prayer space as is how can I Bob the
computer be fitted on the deadweight carry a bomb.
I must add many more gallons of second.
The problem of reliability
that a computer be designed to withstand all the stresses of flight.
Whether prime target third meant it
got a computer be designed for easy ground an error made of these
and other problems were all finally solved by unique design
and my implying the basic principle of modular construction the same logical
arrangement principle which was applied in the design of this Daubert are unable
there bars to protect your airborne computer by designing an electronic assembly
package them self-contained units which are then joined a computer of flexible
construction with a chip it can either be installed in a compact unit
or parts can be distributed according to the space available
some contained units make it easier to achieve durable construction
and easier to test each unit for reliability under all conditions an airborne
computer is likely to be exposed to and some highly unlikely ones.
I doubt it to jump to one hundred twenty thousand feet low temperatures down to one
hundred degrees Fahrenheit below zero.
High temperatures up to two hundred degrees Fahrenheit sunlight
rain life tests of mechanical.
And electronic to migrate into
and this test the question is not will the computer work under this condition
but how long will it work.
Once the continue to build these are the airborne computer were established it was
only one other major obstacle the method to solve this problem.
I.B.M. Draw on its commercial experience it converted it's controlled.
Host a military in order to test a unit of an airborne computer the technician
merely selects the proper controls.
He then plugs the units into the test equipment
and the signal lights tell him whether the units are working or not.
This puts testing computer units in the same class as testing like today
the airborne computer is no longer there is now an experiment itself tested
functional practical respect it has gone into production under the label
rain.
Bombing radar navigation equipment a new plant is being rushed to completion in all
we go New York to boost its out here is a scale model of a B.
Fifty two jointly relative locations of brain equipment the rest of the system
computers periscope and screen.
Are designed to take up a minimum of space and they give a maximum of us.
Come pewters have taken away.
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and elevation you which are probably a R five and right
that was where you are now give me a man of you
and I be a second. Are you. Yeah I think I got it now. You OK.
Have a fire surprised how much better you settle down. OK now. Thanks up.
And as long as we're on guard as long as we are ready to look ahead and move ahead.
The future of America is secure
America.