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USAF Team at NSO/SP Works in Number-One Technology...(1Dec92)
Thrust
(from NSO, NOAO Newsletter No. 32, 1 December 1992)

Of sixty-four Technology Thrusts in the whole of the US Air Force R&D,
the thrust Space Effects on USAF Systems, managed by the Phillips
Laboratory Geophysics Directorate (PL/GP), was rated number one for FY
1992. Much of the effort in the Thrust is being produced by the Solar
Research Branch (PL/GPSS), which is resident at the National Solar
Observatory/Sacramento Peak. Rankings of the value of R&D are produced
annually by those USAF commands affected by the work. Their rankings
generally reflect the value of the work to the individual commands.
The work is partially funded under the Air Force Office of Scientific
Research Project 2311 and includes work done by a "sister" task,
PL/GPSG, at Hanscom AFB, Massachusetts. Major components of the work
include solar instrument development, advanced solar activity models
and the Soft-X-ray/Extreme Ultraviolet Imager (XUVI), all managed by
GPSS; the Solar Mass Ejection Imager (SMEI), with shared management
between GPSS and GPSG; and solar-wind dynamics at GPSG.

Dick Altrock

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