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How the GPS Won Funding by the Department of Defense is the story of the war between the leader of the Rockwell International's (now Boeing) engineering teams and subcontractors that overpowered the overwhelming factions in the Air Force and their prime contractor, Lockheed Missiles and Space Company that pulled the trigger time after time, working to destroy GPS and how the author created a new technology that allowed each of Boeing's GPS Block I satellite's atomic clocks to operate at their peak performance during every U.S. and international organization's multi-service system wide testing including NATO's. The author tells how he caused Boeing's GPS satellite's performance to exceed all expectations and thus the GPS system to do the same using prognostics and health monitoring technology the author developed and used routinely on every on-orbit Boeing GPS Block I satellite that allowed each Boeing GPS satellite to perform beyond expectations when they shouldn't have and won the GPS program funding by the Department of Defense in 1982. The PHM technology was developed in paraelle by the nuclear power industry as well as the aircraft industry and is used today in every nuclear power plant and in the design of all future military and commercial aircraft including the existing Lockheed Martin/Air Force F-35 Joint Strike Fighter and Boeing's 787 Dreamliner commercial aircraft. This is the story of how and why GPS was able to succeed over two existing satellite-based navigation systems owned and operated by the U.S. Navy's nuclear submarine program with equipment designed to fail prematurely in space making GPS program's chances of winning funding next to impossible. Unknown to the author that what he developed was impossible to do, he used the equipment status information he received and converted the common measurements of voltage, current and temperature into a measurement of remaining usable life. It wasn't until his management informed him that what he had been doing successfully with GPS program management's full knowledge for 4 years that won GPS funding by the Department of Defense was impossible and to stop doing it. That is when the author realized that he had to leave the GPS program and Rockwell International and begin a 26 year research program to identify the origin of the behavior he had discovered in the equipment engineering data and its relationship to the length of time the equipment was going to function normally. An agreement by Boeing of the events in this book will result in a claim by the U.S. Air Force for $55M for the total loss of Boeing's GPS SV-7/NAVSTAR 5 and $20M for the Atlas F used to launch SV-7, for only one year of use into its 3.5 year mission life

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The author, is a member of a wide variety of government and aerospace and defense industry organizations and is an authority on RF and digital communications theory and application on spacecraft as well as the creator of PHM technology application in the space industry that allows predicting certain events with certainty. The author's many Power Point presentations and published technical papers are available for reading and downloading at his company's web site located at http: //www.failureanalysisco.com. The AIAA/IEEE Space Conference technical paper titled, Using the Brain's Fight-or-Flight Response to Predict, Prevent and Recover from Mental Illness during NASA's Deep Space Missions is also available on-line from The American Journal of Applied Psychology at the Science Publishing Group's web site for reading or downloading. As an Electrical and Aerospace Engineer, Len is an RF and digital design engineer and designs and redesigns aerospace systems, satellites, spacecraft and launch vehicles for the U.S. military, NASA and national and international civil and government agencies. For an explanation of his company's technology and services, As Boeing's GPS Space and Ground Segment Manager, the author was responsible for winning funding for the GPS program by the Department of Defense. Len was able to accomplish this by developing and using prognostics and health management (PHM) technology. PHM allows engineers to physically measure product/equipment reliability invasively using common equipment test point data or telemetry with certainty changing the quality control and mission assurance paradigm from reliance on probability analysis and stochastic equations. The author's research identified the cause, which includes living in space and a process for recovering from emotional disorders/illnesses and mental illnesses on any of NASA's future manned deep space missions. Academically, the author has earned B.S. degrees in Physics and Mathematics simultaneously, a M.A. and a Ph.D in Electrical Engineering and an M.S. degree in Education.

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