peterc@aipna.ed.ac.uk (Peter Conkey) (01/22/91)
From: Peter Conkey <peterc@aipna.ed.ac.uk>
>From a report in today's (Monday's) Independent newspaper :
"Thousands of minute pieces of information are fed into the MacDill
[US Centcom HQ in Tampa, Florida] computers: mission reports, weather reports,
damage reports, radio frequencies, mission altitudes, tanker refuelling
rendezvous, bomb loads, reconnaisance information, electronic jamming
operations, fighter escort details for the B-52s and even for fighter bombers.
All this information is digested and fed into a computer known as Templar (or
Tactical Expert Mission Planner) which revises the original battle plan,
based on mission successes, and gives the commanders in the field a new one."
Presumably this is actually an expert system. Does anyone have any other
unclassifed information about this.
Peter Conkey