Army of None: Autonomous Weapons and the Future of War
by Paul Scharre · 23 Apr 2018 · 590pp · 152,595 words
Lieutenant Dave Williams. What Main and Williams didn’t know as they rocketed back toward friendly lines was that a crucial piece of equipment, the identification friend or foe (IFF) signal, wasn’t on. The IFF was supposed to broadcast a signal to other friendly aircraft and ground radars to let them know their Tornado
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GPS global positioning system ICRAC International Committee for Robot Arms Control ICRC International Committee of the Red Cross IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers IFF identification friend or foe IHL international humanitarian law IMU inertial measurement unit INF Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces IoT Internet of Things J-UCAS Joint Unmanned Combat Air Systems LIDAR
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Robot Arms Control), 285 ICRC (International Committee of the Red Cross), 269–70 identification friend or foe (IFF) signal, 138, 139, 144, 379n IEDs (improvised explosive devices), 14 IEEE-RAS Technical Committee on Roboethics, 280–81 IEEE Spectrum, 104–5 IFF signal, see identification friend or foe signal “I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream” (Ellison), 234 IHL, see
Crypto: How the Code Rebels Beat the Government Saving Privacy in the Digital Age
by Steven Levy · 15 Jan 2002 · 468pp · 137,055 words
his time by acquiring an early mastery of telephone hacking. He would die young. Diffie was immediately gratified to learn that Tritter was knowledgeable about Identification Friend or Foe (IFF) devices. Reading Kahn’s book, Diffie had been intrigued by its mention of these systems, which are communications devices that essentially quiz each other to
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-2, ref-3, ref-4, ref-5, ref-6, ref-7, ref-8, ref-9, ref-10, ref-11, ref-12, ref-13, ref-14 Identification Friend or Foe (IFF), ref-1, ref-2, ref-3, ref-4 identity proofs: digital signatures, see signatures, digital zero-knowledge, ref-1 Ingram, Tim, ref-1 Inman, Bobby
Turing's Cathedral
by George Dyson · 6 Mar 2012
long commute by train for a short commute by bicycle down Nassau Street and Olden Lane. Pomerene and Ware had both worked on pulse-coded IFF (Identification Friend or Foe) radar systems during the war. As soon as radar had made it possible to hit targets at night or beyond visible range, otherwise adversarial air
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.1, 12.2, 12.3, 14.1, 15.1, 15.2, 16.1, 17.1, 17.2 Gödel’s theorems and, 6.1, 6.2 IFF (Identification Friend or Foe), 7.1, 8.1 interstellar propagation of metazoan, 11.1, 12.1, 14.1, 16.1, 17.1 non-linear proliferation of, 1.1, 1
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, 18.1, 18.2 IBM 704 IBM 7044 IBM 7094, 12.1, 18.1 I Ching (and Leibniz) iconoscope, 5.1, 5.2, 8.1 Identification Friend or Foe (IFF), 7.1, 8.1 ILLIAC (Illinois Automatic Computer) Illinois, University of, 9.1, 9.2, 12.1, 12.2, 15.1, 15.2 implosion (for
Operation Chastise: The RAF's Most Brilliant Attack of World War II
by Max Hastings · 18 Feb 2020 · 375pp · 111,615 words
of radio signals transmitted from the UK, fitted to all Bomber Command aircraft but jammed by the Germans over continental Europe HCU – Heavy Conversion Unit IFF – Identification Friend or Foe: electronic radar-pulse identification device fitted to all British aircraft MAP – Ministry of Aircraft Production MEW – Ministry of Economic Warfare OTU – Operational Training Unit RAAF
Ghost Fleet: A Novel of the Next World War
by P. W. Singer and August Cole · 28 Jun 2015 · 537pp · 149,628 words
the port side and look slightly up toward the incoming plane, three miles out and closing quickly. A repeating triple dash of lights confirmed the IFF — the identification, friend or foe — signal. “We’d be dead by now if it wasn’t,” said Simmons. “Get the recovery crew ready.” “Already standing by, sir,” said Shear
Anything to Declare?: The Searching Tales of an HM Customs Officer
by Jon Frost · 8 Apr 2015 · 279pp · 96,180 words
a military electrical company was supplying computer chips to the Iraqis for their fighter aircraft. The chips were for the aircrafts’ weapons system called the IFF – Identification: Friend or Foe. Basically, plane A sends out an automated signal to plane B. Plane B sends an automated reply to plane A. If the reply is coded
They Gave Me a Seafire
by Commander R 'Mike' Crosley Dsc Rn · 5 Aug 2014 · 473pp · 156,146 words
this out for himself. Also at this time, we had to fit a new ‘black box’ in the back of our Hurricanes. This was the IFF (Identification Friend or Foe), to help identify us so that we should not be mistaken for a German or an Italian. In addition, we had a new, four-channel
Darwin Among the Machines
by George Dyson · 28 Mar 2012 · 463pp · 118,936 words
and explored its possible use as a high-speed storage medium in the EDVAC report of 1945. Frederick C. Williams, after working on pulse-coded IFF (Identification Friend or Foe) radar systems at England’s Telecommunications Research Establishment during the war, developed a practical version in 1946 and succeeded in building a small computer at
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, 104 ideas. see also consciousness; meaning; mind Darwinian evolution of, 28, 184 and formal logic, 38, 43, 46, 49, 129 nature of, 136, 158, 225 IFF (Identification Friend or Foe) radar, 104 Illinois, University of, 107 immortality, and composite organisms, 175, 191, 210 and non-Darwinian evolution, 31 improbability, and origins of life, 29–30
The Billion Dollar Spy: A True Story of Cold War Espionage and Betrayal
by David E. Hoffman · 9 May 2016
which was directly in Tolkachev’s line of work. Nor was the Yak-41, a vertical takeoff and landing aircraft that was never produced. The IFF (identification friend or foe) and sapfir radars were definitely within Phazotron’s field of research, but Tolkachev had already provided extensive material on the sapfir. Tolkachev was being pushed
The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East
by Robert Fisk · 2 Jan 2005 · 1,800pp · 596,972 words
beam. “I’m listening to a plane landing now—commercial flight—but if I want to know about a specific plane, I ask for an IFF [identification, friend or foe?] and talk to Sharjah control.” There were boards and charts and crayon marks on war-zone lines. The USS Reid —part of Reagan’s Gulf
Secrets and Lies: Digital Security in a Networked World
by Bruce Schneier · 1 Jan 2000 · 470pp · 144,455 words
use your cell phone (or your pay-TV system), it authenticates itself to the network so the network knows who to bill. Military aircraft have IFF (identification friend or foe) systems to authenticate themselves to allied aircraft and antiaircraft batteries. Burglar alarms include authentication, to detect someone splicing a rogue alarm (that will never go
After the Flood: What the Dambusters Did Next
by John Nichol · 1 Jul 2015 · 434pp · 128,151 words
piano keyboard, to minimise the risk of losses to ‘friendly fire’, since the volume of D-Day signals traffic was certain to swamp the normal IFF (Identification Friend or Foe) system that used a transponder to identify friendly aircraft to British radar. Bomber crews were also forbidden from jettisoning bombs over the Channel that night
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–1 presumed to have perished 230 takes part in Kembs op 224 Howard, Christopher ‘Kit’ 228, 232 Humphries, Squadron Adjutant Harry ‘Humph’ 22–3, 86 Identification Friend or Foe (IFF) system 123 Ijmuiden 316 Ingelby, Flying Officer Phil 147–8, 184–5 Intelligence Section, Woodhall Spa 100, 109, 112, 158 Isherwood, Flight Sergeant Samuel 155
Future War: Preparing for the New Global Battlefield
by Robert H. Latiff · 25 Sep 2017 · 158pp · 46,353 words
our own, thus putting our pilots and aircraft at risk. In electronic warfare, operators want protection against communications jamming, radar spoofing, or intrusion into aircraft identification-friend-or-foe (IFF) systems. In the electromagnetic spectrum, militaries are constantly having to develop countermeasures and counter-countermeasures such as frequency hopping, adaptable waveforms, and sophisticated signal filters
Spitfire: A Very British Love Story
by John Nichol · 16 May 2018 · 522pp · 144,605 words
was close to being overrun. He had to sacrifice his machine and get out. They had been warned that it was vital that their latest ‘Identification Friend or Foe’ device should not fall into enemy hands. Peart ignored the incoming rounds and sprinted to his Spitfire. He climbed onto the wing, leaned into the
Armed Humanitarians
by Nathan Hodge · 1 Sep 2011 · 390pp · 119,527 words
of a U.S. Patriot missile smacking into a Royal Air Force GR4A Tornado fighter. The missile battery failed to pick up the aircraft’s IFF (identification friend or foe) beacon, an electronic signal that is supposed to prevent fratricide.1 Both crew members were killed. Word of the incident spread quickly, but although it