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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 16, 2015
Filed:
Oct. 01, 2012
Aurora Flight Sciences Corporation, Manassas, VA (US);
Tom Washington, Manassas, VA (US);
Thorsten Hisam, Manassas, VA (US);
Martin Gomez, Manassas, VA (US);
Aurora Flight Sciences Corporation, Manassas, VA (US);
Abstract
The present disclosure endeavors to provide systems, methods and apparatus for ensuring aircraft compliance with governmental guidelines, such as, for example, Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) Category II compliance. A hardware-based system may be employed to reduce range and/or payload below predetermined ranges and a payload capacities. Also provided herein are hardware-based systems, methods, and apparatus for restricting a system's range to predetermined range and/or the payload to a predetermined limit using, for example, an Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) installed in the flight control system.