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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 08, 2016
Filed:
Jun. 11, 2012
Carl R. Herman, Owego, NY (US);
Carl R. Herman, Owego, NY (US);
Lockheed Martin Corporation, Bethesda, MD (US);
Abstract
Embodiments of the invention are directed to techniques for preemptively managing countermeasures of a vehicle. Prior to identifying an actual threat, at least one countermeasure device may be preemptively oriented to point in a direction most likely to produce a threat. The preemptive orientation may be determined my environmental information and/or vehicular information. Once an actual threat is identified, the countermeasure device may re-orient to point to the identified threat. The preemptive orientation may save time in the re-orientation process thereby providing extra time for countermeasures to be actively deployed.