peterc@aipna.ed.ac.uk (Peter Conkey ) (01/23/91)
From a report in 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