Personal revelations from an insider

I was taught to see the reason why my life was my confession.


Undercover hierarchical and bureaucratic engineering organizations gave soon way to the best concept yet! Lockheed "Skunk Works" Kelly Johnson's strong, but small integrated engineering teams. Teamwork at its best!

Ready for any challenge I was soon dealing with structural finite element discretization methods and up to the frontiers of plasticity, large deformation (non-linearities/plasticity) engineering science problems.

Concurrent engineering was justified and one of a long series of successful effort to harness the collected knowledge of the other team members. Man's consciousness and his social environment was and still is an essential toolkit. The common basis required to achieve directness and unity, engineering elegance beyond the usual, was provided by the U.S. Department, Air Force Institute of Technology or Joint Technical Coordinating Groups.

Vigorously grown modular subroutines on efficiency have lately materialized in aeronautics and astronautics, with extensions to a variety of defense engineering science fields. On future global engineering coalitions I would recommend bringing the design team closer to the customer.

Nobody has determined where to land such a monster, which will permit a realistic solution of most extremely complex engineering situations. Within my own engineering circles we have cleared away most of the repugnance. In fact, there is now an increasing sense of duty to look after the common good as well as ourselves. This is a mighty advance and it is true.

Man's death is a common property as well as the common fact of life. Moving outward from the usual perimeter of the mighty U.S. arsenal, throughout my academic career I've struggled with minds that understand the smallest part of what they see. The prophecy of courage will surely loop backwards on us. But bravery goes underground and new more streamlined plots for peace will rise to the surface.

Prepare to be blown away by the development work on the pulse-detonation engines (PDE). PDEs is a revolutionary propulsion concept. The configuration arrangement consists of a pulse-detonation combustor (PDC) integrated into a gas turbine engine. The thermodynamically more efficient PDEs rely on a pressure rise from a supersonic, shock-induced combustion wave. In a conventional combustor the flame speed is 15-80 fps versus PDEs around 6000 fps. The fuel used for these technology demonstrators vary from hexane, ethylene, JP and diesel. Mil-specs demonstrate 12 % efficiency improvement that would yield further efficiencies in carbon dioxide reduction. If the straight swap-out model of conversion is feasible, it might solve the defense needs. When PDEs pass through the developing process, steps will be taken to provide for peacetime production. General Electric is seeking involvement in several NASA research, or U.S. Defense Dept. research programs.

When I first joined a technical coordinating group, I knew that as an experienced engineering professional, with an elevated secret clearance, I would never rise to the position of Chief of Staff. But I also knew that numerous positions were available that demanded dedicated professionals to sustain the development of new ISR technologies. That is, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance as a requisite of national security and international amity. One important piece of the ISR Rosetta stone is the company called E-Systems. An Industrial Associate of the U.S. Air Force Association. Another pièce de résistance is the 3rd Space Experimental Squadron under the Space Innovation and Development Center. This is a classified effort to develop autonomous surveillance and under one umbrella targeting capability. Currently, ISR is recapitalizing its technologies. Spacecrafts or high-altitude platforms that do surveillance are expanding their role in assisting civilian communities (hurricane relief, tornado warning etc.) The goal is global communication with reference to a sophisticated database that allows near-real-time prediction of target location and wartime attack assessment. My own technical coordinating group has incrementally developed a high-temperature superconductivity. Our superconductors have generated new opportunities for reduced power requirements and volume aboard platforms and spacecrafts. Furthermore, induced less lift for launching surveillance satellites.

Still, I find it difficult to find a way round good defense against wrongdoing. As The Bomber Roadmap states, "The art of inflicting operational paralysis depends on hitting a precise selection of the enemy's most valuable targets in a short span of time." But the time-dimension is still lingering at the back of one's mind. The silver streak of a falling nuclear bomb - God forbid! We are done with life! No wonder it's a tall order the emergence of enhanced communications. We must add information that puts the message into perspective. More accountability at the personal level for solving problems that impede our future.

Skills, knowledge and functional capabilities within an engineering team should never be treated as a market-driven commodity. Classified engineering nowadays is an extremely complex endeavor.

"I believe in excellence. It is a basic need of every human soul. All of us can be excellent because, fortunately, we are exceedingly divers in our ambitions and talents." - Edward Teller

A man will by nature work with extreme gusto for the sake of a beautiful woman, but with little earnestness for the sake of moral excellence, unless governed by force!

Move heaven and earth, put your mind to it - Big Brother !

Ron Certitude
2007-10-03