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This Defense Intelligence Reference Document, dated 1 November 2010 and numbered DIA-08-1011-002, was prepared by the Defense Intelligence Agency's Defense Warning Office. It is one of a series of advanced technology reports produced under the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications program. It draws mainly on the book Frontiers of Propulsion Science and speculates about breakthroughs such as control of gravity and inertia and faster-than-light travel. It then proposes a provisional cockpit design with six-degree-of-freedom controls, virtual displays and no windows.
From the source:Release of 2026-09-18 Incident: 11/1/10, Las Vegas, Nevada. Released with redactions. This document is a Defense Intelligence Reference Document (DIRD), a technical reference format used by the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) to capture baseline knowledge on a specific topic for later analytic use. DIRDs are best understood as reference and synthesis products rather than as original research. It is one of 38 DIRDs produced under the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program (AAWSAP) between 2009 and 2011. Because AAWSAP’s scope permitted a broad range of supporting topics, not every DIRD in the series directly concerns aerospace systems or future threat assessment. The following summary reflects the DIRD’s scope and framing at the time of writing and should not be read as implying current validation of the concepts discussed. This DIRD examines how cockpit design might change if future aerospace vehicles were ever to achieve major propulsion breakthroughs such as control over gravity and inertia, “propellantless” flight, or faster-than-light travel. The report does not describe an existing or emerging vehicle class. Instead, it asks what such hypothetical capabilities would mean for piloting, displays, controls, and human factors, and it argues that the biggest design challenges would come from full six-degree-of-freedom motion, operation across multiple flight regimes from near-surface flight to orbit and deep space, and the possible separation between the craft’s actual motion and the crew’s internal physical sensations. It combines those assumptions with established human-machine-interface principles and with maturing inputs such as gesture, voice, and brain-machine control to outline a provisional cockpit centered on intuitive displays, stress-tolerant physical controls, and a virtual surround display.
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UNCLASSIFIED/ ,'FOR OFFI@IAL WSE ONLY Appendix B: Endnotes L Millis, Marc & Davis, Eric. (eds). (2009). Frontiers of Propulsion Science, Volume 227 of Progress in Astronautics and Aeronautics, Reston, VA : American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) . 2 Mi llis & Davis (2009) p. 150, Specifically refer to Table-6. Methods in the first 6 rows of t hat table would not require the double hull config uratio n. Also refer to the "gravitational control" methods discussed in the subsequent chapter, 4, for more approaches. 3 Millis & Dav is (2009) p. 487-489. 4 Millis & Davis (2009) Chapter 15. 5 Mill is & Davis (2009) p. 127. 6 Millis & Davis (2009) Chapter 3. 7 Millis & Davis (2009) p. 166. 8 Millis & Davis (2009) Chapters 3-13, & 18. 9 Stokes, A., Wickens, C. & Kite, K. (1990). Display Technology - Human Factors Concepts, Warrendale, PA : Society of Automotive Engineers, Inc. to Millis & Davis (2009) p. 460. 11 Millis & Davis (2009) p. 456-459. 12 Millis & Davis (2009) p. 496-499. 13 Millis & Davis (2009) p. 132. 14 Moskowitz, S. & Devereux, W. (1970). Navigational Aspect of Transstellar Space Flight. In F. Ordway III (Ed.), Advances in Space Science and Technology, Academic Press, Vol. 10, 75-126 15 Numerous references pertain to the overall study of human factors. The more sweeping of these include: • Dismukes, R. (1991) . Aerospace human factors research division - Code FL. Internal document, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA. • Russo, D., Tillman, 8 ., & Pickett, L. (2009) . Human Factors Engineering Standards at NASA, Presented at the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Conference (22-26 Sep. 2008, Manhattan, NY). NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston TX. • Reason, J. (1990). Human Error. Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press. • Stanton, N., et al. (2005). Human Factors Methods; A Practical Guide For Engineering and Design. Aldershot, Hampshire : Ashgate Publishing Limited . • Shneiderman, B. (1997) . Designing the User Interface: Strategies for Effective Human-Computer Interaction, 3rd edition. Boston, MA : Addison-Wesley Longman Publishing. • Stokes, Wickens, & Kite, K. (1990) . • Tilley, A. R., & Dreyfuss, H. (2001). The Measure of Man and Woman: Human Factors in Design . Wiley. • Webb, P. (Ed.). (1964). Bioastronautics Data Book. NASA SP-3006. Washington DC: Scientific and Technical Information Division . 16 Grifantini, K. (2010). GM Develops Augmented Reality Windshield. Technology Review, MIT, March 17. Retrieved from 17 Morgan, B. ( 1985). DOD enlists voice control and expert systems. Electronic Products, Oct. 1, 65 - 67. 18 Only a few gesture-based computer articles were consulted considering the assumption in this study that these would be mature technologies by the time that propulsion breakthroughs become possible. • Hall, Kenji. (2007) . The Big Ideas Behind Nintendo's Wii. Business Week . Retrieved from • Sutter, J. D. (2010/ June/ 18). New tech moves beyond the mouse, keyboard and screen . CNN. Retrieved . • Underkoffler, J. (2010). John Underkoffler Points to the Future of User Interfaces . TED Talks, June 2, 2010, Retrieved from > ' 9 Only two Brain-Machine interface articles were consulted since the assumption of this study that these would be mature technologies by the time that propulsion breakthroughs become possible. • Genik II, R. J. (2009/ March/ 23). Technological Approaches to Controlling External Devices in the Absence of Limb-operated Interfaces, Defense Intelligence Reference Document, DIA-08-1003-012 (unclassified). • Sutter (2010). 20 Moravec H. (2000) Robot: Mere Machine to Transcendent Mind: Oxford University Press 21 Two references apply to this endnote: • Stokes, Wickens, & Kite, K. (1990). • Hoover, G. (1992). Stop Saturating Pilots with Alphanumeric Hieroglyphics. Aviation Week and Space Technology, June. 15, 98-99. 50 UNCLASSIFIED/fFOA. OFFICIO ls. Plili ONls.¥
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