Nuclear Safety Design Criteria for Weapons Systems Employing Digital Avionics Information System (DAIS).

摘要

The U.S. Air Force is contemplating the employment of Digital Avionics Information Systems (DAIS) on future Air Force aircraft. Consideration is now being given to the incorporation of nuclear weapon AMAC/REL system functions into DAIS,thereby achieving additional cost reductions and weight and volume savings. The objective of this study effort is to provide the Air Force with nuclear safety design and evaluation criteria that will be used for system design,nuclear safety evaluation,and analysis of computer/software designs that utilize the DAIS approach. The data developed by this study will form a technological data base for extending nuclear safety design and evaluation criteria to other advanced concepts. The study concludes that AMAC/REL systems can be integrated within DAIS with little impact upon DAIS,while retaining nuclear safety in performance equivalent to that provided by dedicated conventional systems presently used on Air Force vehicles.