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- 1986 Hughes Aircraft won a contract to produce a field version of Stanford Research Institutes chemical warfare detection system. Using CO2 lasers to create an infra-red spectrum, spectral absorption techniques were used to detect chemical warfare agents at a distance. Called the Remote Active Spectrometer (RAS), Hughes Aircraft successfully completed field tests at Dugway Proving Grounds.
- Responsible for the RAS host computer, a PC-XT
- Designed ISA card to interface to the RAS electronics and SRIs computer.
- Wrote the system operating software.
- Here's a movie clip about RAS: RAS Movie
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