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From: jbn@GLACIER.STANFORD.EDU (John B. Nagle)
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Subject: Re: bm654 - Spang Robinson 3#6, 6/87
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>Rome Air Force Development Center is building a system to help decide
>if foreign rocket launches are threats. 

      I saw the RFP for that one go by when I was at Ford Aerospace.
I recommended that we not bid, pointing out that an expert system to
make launch-on-warning decisions was a singularly bad idea.  Seen
in that light, no one at Ford wanted to have anything to do with the program.
Nevertheless, RADC apparently found somebody willing to spend their money.

      Fortunately, most of what RADC funds never gets deployed.

					John Nagle