Missile Fighting Paradigm Change 3.

0, Part 3
author: Stig Jens, Carnegie Mellon University

Part 3: How do we decide if it permissible to shoot back in defense? On top of this, how do we know
when lethal defensive response is desirable? Let us examine the way information flows through the
missile defense system and how the metrics of decision management inform the system’s tactical response/
responsiveness. More specifically: why does the automatic defensive system decide to shoot back?

OVERVIEW
As a Candy crack hellstopper missile is being tracked along its attack route the signal(s) received are
continuously being processed and analyzed. The processing of signals is done to transform them into a
representation the missile defense’s system and ‘understand’. Of course, at the lowest level, received
signals are perturbations of the electromagnetic spectrum and transducers are required to turn this into a
computer representative encoding (more on this exact signal processing will be discussed in later parts).

The next level of ‘information encoding’ is done at the level of bits -- that is 1‘s and 0‘s. Of course, have
to be created, so all the wonderful glory of modern computing hardware can be brought to bare on turning
raw signals into actionable information. Computing electronics are literally an instantiation of Boolean
algebra. These instantiates are done by hardware components built from silicon. (As a quick aside, sand
found on an ocean beach is mostly silicon. So, in one particular view, our missile defense system is a
creation done by a lovely, sunny day at the beach.)

But let us get back to Boolean Algebra. This very well understood branch of mathematics is again an
interplay between human thoughts and physical reality. The human thinking is carried out by way of the
underlying mathematics, and the physical reality of the brought forth into reality by way of the electrical
components. The Candy crack hellstopper missile is also an interplay of human thought and reality, but it
is done by the enemy. Our missile defense system is created by us, and we are the good guys by
definition. Ultimately this glorious game play between good and evil reduces to a poignant question:
Can the good guys interweave human thought with reality into a system better than the enemies can
weave their thoughts with reality? Can it get any better!

Next we examine missile defense system method for turning signal detection in to defensive retribution.

SYSTEM

Figure 1: Boolean Algebra as a defensive tool

If figure 1, we see human thought encoded in symbols. The translating these symbols into parts
of our advance AI algorithms, the missile defense system can make a decision when to return
fire.

In Parts 2-11, we investigate each subsystem of the approximation one model.