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Dov Zakheim's Homeland Security biz and the remote control of aircraft
Christians Against Zionism - March 2005
He was (is?) Corporate VP1 at System Planning Corporation, a major player in the "Homeland Security" industry. One of the products that SysPlan sells is the Command Transmitter System, a remote control system for planes, boats, missiles and other vehicles2 . It's highly customable and configurable to interface with an almost limitless number of vehicle types.
The remote control theory of 9/11 looks a little better every day.
System Planning Corproation's Command Transmitter Systems (CTS) provide remote control and flight termination functions through a fully-redundant self-contained solid-state system.
| Exciter The exciter incorporates state-of-the-art Direct-Digital-Synthesis technology to simultaneously generate an RF carrier and up to 6 of 20 available standard IRIG-B tones. It has 20 watts of output power and an internal ferrite isolator. The exciter may also be used as a standalone unit. High-Power Amplifier State-of-the-art CMOS micro-controllers provide full fault detection and reporting. High-power ferrite isolators allow full-power operation with antenna VSWRs up to 2:1. The HPA is designed for graceful degradation, which allows high-output power operation even with several amplifier modules inoperative. As an optional feature, each HPA sub-system is provided with an RF switch matrix that allows real-time replacement of HPA units. External modulation inputs may be used to modulate the transmitters with externally-generated tones from 10 Hz to 100 kHz. The system can be switched automatically or manually between transmitters. Automatic switching to the redudant system is completed in less than 5ms upon detection of an internal fault or at preset RF power thresholds. The system is mounted in two standard 60"-high racks for easy installation in mobile platforms. The roller-bearing, tiltable rack slides allow easy access within the chassis for low MTTR. CTS generally ships with front panel button operation for broadcast frequency and tones. Add-on options are available from SPC for remote control features. For more information on an integrated control system, see SPC's Flight Termination System Download a CTS brochure.
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bluegrass writes: "
1 Dov S. Zakheim:
Dov S. Zakheim is Corporate Vice President of System Planning Corporation (SPC),
a high-technology, research, analysis, and manufacturing firm based in
Arlington, Virginia. He is also Chief Executive Officer of
SPC International Corporation, a
subsidiary of SPC that specializes in political, military, and economic
consulting, and international sales and analysis. In addition, Dr. Zakheim
serves as Consultant to the Secretary of Defense and the Under Secretary of
Defense for Policy. He is an Adjunct Senior Fellow for Asian Studies of the
Council on Foreign Relations, Adjunct Scholar of the Heritage Foundation, and a
Senior Advisor at the Center for International and Strategic Studies.
From 1985 until March 1987, Dr. Zakheim was Deputy Under Secretary of Defense
for Planning and Resources. In that capacity, he played an active role in the
Department's system acquisition and strategic planning processes and guided
Department of Defense policy in a number of international economic fora. He also
successfully negotiated numerous arms cooperation agreements with various U.S.
allies.
Dr. Zakheim served the Reagan Administration in a variety of other senior
Department of Defense posts from 1981 through 1985. He had served previously as
Principal Analyst with the National Security and International Affairs Division
of the Congressional Budget Office.
A graduate of Columbia University, New York, where he earned his B.A., Summa Cum
Laude and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, Dr. Zakheim also studied at the London
School of Economics. Dr. Zakheim earned his doctorate in economics and politics
at St. Antony's College, University of Oxford, where he was a National Science
Foundation Graduate Fellow, a Columbia College Kellett Fellow, and a
post-doctoral Research Fellow. He has served as Adjunct Professor at the
National War College, Yeshiva University, and Columbia University and as
Presidential Scholar and Adjunct Professor at Trinity College, Hartford, CT.
Dr. Zakheim served for two terms as a Presidential appointee to the United
States Commission for the Preservation of America's Heritage Abroad. In 1997 he
was appointed by Secretary of Defense Cohen to the Task Force on Defense Reform.
In May 1998 Secretary Cohen named him to the first Board of Visitors of the
Department of Defense Overseas Regional Schools. In February 2000 he was
appointed to the Defense Science Board Task Force on the Impact of DoD
Acquisition Policies on the Health of the Defense Industry.
Dr. Zakheim writes, lectures, and provides media commentary on national defense
and foreign policy issues, both domestically and internationally, including
appearances on major U.S. network news telecasts, CNN's Newshour, Larry King
Live, BBC Arab and World Service, and Israeli, Swedish, and Japanese television.
He is a columnist for the Jerusalem Post, a regular contributor to Defense News,
and an editorial board member of Israel Affairs and of The Round Table (the
Commonwealth Journal of International Affairs). He serves on review panels for
the Wilson Center for International Scholars, the United States Institute of
Peace, and the U.S. Naval Institute. He is the author of Flight of the Lavi:
Inside a U.S.-Israeli Crisis (Brassey's, 1996), Congress and National Security
in the Post-Cold War Era (The Nixon Center, 1998), and numerous articles and
chapters in books. Dr. Zakheim is also a trustee of the Foreign Policy Research
Institute; serves on the Board of Directors of Search for Common Ground and of
Friends of the Jewish Chapel of the United States Naval Academy; and is a member
of the Council on Foreign Relations and other professional organizations. Dr.
Zakheim is a member of the advisory boards of the Center for Security Policy,
the Initiative for Peace and Cooperation in the Middle East, and the American
Jewish Committee.
Dr. Zakheim is the recipient of the Department of Defense Distinguished Public
Service Medal (1986), the Bronze Palm to the DoD Distinguished Public Service
Medal (1987), Congressional Budget Office Director's Award for Outstanding
Service (1979), and the SPC Director's Award for Outstanding Service (1997).
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COMMAND TRANSMITTER SYSTEM (CTS)
The CTS at the Sea Range provides safe, controlled testing of unmanned targets,
platforms and missiles, including ballistic missiles and other long-range
vehicles.
The CTS is a tunable UHF FM transmitter designed for ground use in
controlling guided missiles, pilotless aircraft and pilotless boats. It
delivers a nominal 750 watts of RF power to the antenna (rated at 1 kW with a
minimum of 500 watts). The RF signal is frequency modulated by selected tones (IRIG
20 tone format) that correspond to particular control functions of the missile,
aircraft or boat. Four of these systems are located at Laguna Peak and three are
located on SNI. The fourth system at SNI is expected to be operational in fiscal
year 1997.
Control of target vehicles allows a specific test or threat geometry to be
produced for weapons systems tests or Fleet training. The CTS may be controlled
at the site or remotely from the OCRs at Point Mugu. This allows an operator to
control a pilotless aircraft or drone throughout the Sea Range or control boats
and ship targets within about 40 miles of the active transmitter site. Area of
coverage is shown in Figure 7-5. The CTS is used for control of airborne targets
such as VANDAL, AQM-37C and aerial tows, and seaborne targets such as the SEPTAR
and Mobile Ship Target (MST). The BQM-74E is sometimes flown using the CTS when
shortages of DKW-3 equipment occur.
In addition to the fixed site capability, the Test Wing's NP-3D aircraft can be
configured to provide airborne CTS functions as an over-the-horizon repeater or
"stand-alone" transmitter."