Paper that summarises and to discuses trends in research on interceptor guidance laws for fast-flying and/or agile air targets. The authors will present an analysis of the implications of these trends on the missile performance and in particular the robustness of the end-game guidance in military operations. …

The authors discuss the need for a C4I architecture for the Netherlands armed forces and list the progress that has been made up to now. Several challenges are identified, such as unique real-time requirements, interoperability and agility and unique security requirements.

In this paper the authors describe the iTasks workflow system. The iTasks system is a software library written in the declarative programming language Clean, which allows for the highlevel specification of multi-user workflows. An important advantage of the iTasks system above commercially available …

In this issue, the members of the Combat Systems Department inform the defence community and (military) research institutes about their current and future research projects. The contributions cover a large part of the field of technological academic research that military organisations require

The authors report on a new research project on cooperative robots, which is particularly suited to student participation. The research on cooperative robot systems of the Combat Systems section is still at a preliminary stage. A system for the determination of the relative position of robots hasalready …