The Cadillac Weapon System

           THE SEDAN DEVILLE Weapon System

In 1983 Sobczak was awarded a 48-month contract by USAF/ASD to provide non-personal
services to six System Program Offices.  For the first contact year he rented a 1983
Cadillac Sedan DEVILLE from Hertz at Dayton International Airport.  He purchased the
auto at the start of year two.   During this time he established criteria from a new auto.

He purchased a 1985 Sedan DEVILLE in May 1985.  Upon accepting the auto it was taken
to XXXXXXX Motors, a local mechanic servicing high end equipment.  Based on the
experiences of Congressman Norman Lent, a personal friend, the frame was strengthened
by the addition of two 3" iron pipes placed under the auto body and welded to the front and
rear bumpers.  Congressman Lent had lost two sets of bumpers to thieves while in special
parking at La Guardia Airport, Queens, N.Y.  Next, the original equipment shock absorbers
were replaced with Koni-Endine Heavy Duty spring wrapped air adjustable shock
absorbers.  Finally, front and rear axile load levelers that conformed to the new springs
were added.  This guaranteed a stable ride.

The auto trunk was exceptionally large.  It could hold eight suitcases (120 square feet).
A specially constructed 3" high 30 square foot auxiliary gasoline tank was constructed,
added, and modified to accept the existing gasoline fill pipe.  Gasoline storage capacity
was 55 gallons (estimated 880 miles).  The main tank float showed full until the auxiliary
tank was emptied. Both tanks were insulated and had a fume release that exhausted into
the area of the fill nozzle.  A second heavy duty 120 Volt battery was connected to the
ignition system as back up.

The initial trip to WPAFB and the Fairborn Holiday Inn was interrupted twice for warnings
by the Pennsylvania and Ohio State Police.  The auto was extremely comfortable and
inside the sealed cabin speed was easily overlooked.  The cruise control was replaced as
the original equipment was designed for a lighter vehicle.  The new cruise control
compensated for the extra weight.  Additionally, truck class disk brakes with air boosters
were installed.  The mechanics in Dayton suggested that I add a CB Radio so that I might
hear "Speed Trap" and Radar warnings.

Back in New York, I was introduced to Louie G., a retired Army special forces electronic
and signals' specialist.  My friend in Long Island City was implementing a movable antenna
system modeled after my earlier experiments with Weingard antennas, signal strength
boosters and movable (rotating) controls.  In 1972, New York Newsday featured my
experiment in its Sunday Parade Magazine.   My design of a boosted multi-dipole high
gain antenna with a rotator allowed me to receive stations from Charleston S.C.  to
Gander, New Foundland to Montreal, Ontario to all ships transmitting from their masts off
the Atlantic coast.  Newsday's photographer pictured all 72 channels.

I had used my Segment Indexed Integrated Databases system to define what I wanted as
an optimum CB/SSB radio.   Louie G.  obtained, modified and installed within a dash board
cut out a voice activated Cobra radio and a fully automatic 30", five section
AM/FM/CB/SSB Metra Antenna.  All cables and interfaces were hidden in signal
suppressing shielded cables.  A 150-amp booster was wired in series to that the 4 amp CB
could send and receive signals from thirty miles distant.

Next, at my request, to my specifications, Louie added a radar warning receiver.   I chose
Cobra units modified by an Australian radar/ladar detector detector.  The scanner
searched from 2 MHZ thru 30 MHZ.   It consisted of three units, a radar detector, a ladar
detector and a signal booster/analyzer.  It could detect and change red lights, radar guns,
and C thru Ku bands.  It provided voice and strobe alerts in both city and highway modes.
It was programmable with SWR auto calibration.

Long before stealth shapes, Sobczak designed a stainless steel "Bug Screen" that was
punch pressed in various directions (pitches) by friends in the tool and die shop at Waldes
Kohinoor in Long Island City, N.Y.   I consulted for the Waldes Chairman.  The screen
which attached before the Sedan DEVILLE radiator grill, was powered.  It diffused some
signal and confused the image returned to the tracking unit.

Louie G. Suggested the addition of a Japanese C - Ku band noise generator and amplifier
N-channel HJ-fet.  My detector identified the tracking radar about 1000 feet distant, except
where the radar was at the base of a hill and could not be tracked line of sight until the
detector crested the hill.  It generated noise from the screen and the antenna.  The police
scanner showed two images and could not decide which was real.  This unit was hidden
in the trunk box.

The system worked well except coming over a hill.  I received an undeserved violation in
this situation on US Route 70 about three miles into West Virginia.  The local town issued
an ordinance that traffic through the town on I-70 must move no faster than 55 MPH.
People driving east into West Virginia had been driving at 65 MPH through Ohio.  There
was no warning signage.  I received my warning from a trucker driving in the opposite
direction.  It was too late.  The experience cost me $80.  The Magistrate was the Sheriff's
wife.  She was in an unmarked auto 500' past the speed trap.  They accepted cash, checks
and credit cards on the spot or you must spend one day in jail before you could plead.

I explained my frustration to Louie G.   He told me he could create a weapon to burn up
the offending detector.  The device was placed in my auto's trunk.  The transmitting
antenna sat in a hole drilled next to the left rear brake light.  When triggered it dumped
three capacitors through the antenna after the offending device was passed.  It destroyed
the West Virginia Sheriff's speed detector two trips later.  The same scenario sans
violation happened near New Cumberland PA.  These were the only times I used my
Cadillac weapon.

Appendix - SIID Explanation

INTRODUCTION

A large share of money spent to research novel ideas' results in workable solutions that
lay fallow.  Waste of intellectual property resources is an extravagance taken for granted
by those experiencing government largess.  Programs that attempt to transfer technology
generate income, solely, for the individuals attempting to locate ideas/solutions from
Agency/Source A for Country/Agency B.  Information reuse successes are limitless to
those capable of developing the means to identify their potential.

Dr. Thomas V. Sobczak has created a logically simple method to identify sources of
archived information that provide a focus to projects that suffer from supposed secrecy.
Outcomes emanate from locating and integrating unfocused facts.  Sobczak has generated
new products/ideas in niche markets for entrepreneurs willing to seek out solutions their
competition has ignored.  Examples of how the system works and more specifically results
that are timely to modern industry define options for those capable of realizing the potential
gained by locating and focusing random facts that exist in a different venue.  Many ideas,
as originally conceived, are probably pedestrian in their original industry/universe.  These
ideas become fast track when reapplied to a more amenable niche.  Most data, identified
and structured by Sobczak, currently reside in archival holdings that are little used,
perhaps forgotten.  These warehoused facts have a high probability for public
dissemination when identified and associated with a specific sought after topic.

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
 
The logic of a Segment Indexed Integrated Database (SIID) is the refocusing of modern
manufacturing technology planning and control techniques into areas outside their
originally intended scope.  SIID begins by using the idea of a Work Breakdown Structure
(WBS) not unlike that of the original USAF PERT/COST.  It is enhanced using the USAF
Wright Laboratory Manufacturing Technology Division ICAM IDEF logic.  The ICAM Group
Technology Classification & Coding (GTCC) cements related organizations, i.e., grouping
related facts.  The SIID groups ideas.  Focus and control are evident when the relations
between ideas and their original intended use, an SIMPLIMATRIX, creates data structures
delineating new solutions (knowledge.)
 
A comment explained later in this essay, discusses the SIID methodology as identifying
16,000 manufacturing terms containing less than 4,500 unique definitions.  The theory
speaks pointedly of the duplication and redundancy that are eliminated when logic and
common sense are applied to structure archived intellectual resources.
 
Technologists generate data in gigabytes in every subject.  Proper capture, logging and
organization of data infers previously undefined thoughts.  SIID allows those who research
technological secrets to expand and capitalize upon useful knowledge while purging chaff.

STRUCTURE FROM CHAOS

SIID uses existing catchwords to structure a search for datum necessary to produce new
facts.  SIID optimizes federally funded archival research.  Ideas such as CAD, CAE, CAM,
and CIM begat the major USAF investment in the Integrated Computer Aided
Manufacturing (ICAM) programs.  The evolution of a manufacturing architecture served as
the basis for attempts to join islands of automation.  One such effort involved the transfer
of production information between IBM, Honeywell and DEC hardware.  USAF integration
research cost almost three (3) million dollars.  Data distribution between end users
occurred in a traditional and pedestrian fashion.  The ICAM Program Office awarded a
small contract to Dr. Thomas V. Sobczak.  He used it to formalize a set of rules for data
integration that he termed SEGMENT INDEXED INTEGRATED DATABASE (SIID).   SIID
collects archived information/facts and structures them to produce unintended results.
 
Thomas V. Sobczak, Ph.D., P.E., researches knowledge engineering via code structures
to foster information caching from dissimilar data base (file) structures hosted on dissimilar
hardware.  Our government has tools that when used non-traditionally, allow knowledge
integration to occur in a less complex manner than is presently evolving as mining of
warehoused (archived) information.  Available methods that aid manufacturing integration
include Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), Group Technology (GT), Classification and
Coding (GTCC), Integrated Definition (IDEF), etc.  These methods are applied, by
Sobczak, ubiquitously outside their originally intended use.
 
Sobczak's initial test bed SIID was an integration of the Army, Navy and Air Force data
bases for Manufacturing Technology.  A work breakdown structure of ideas was
constructed based on the six USAF Manufacturing Technology Advisory Group's (MTAGs)
technology thrusts.  Integration of collected data identified a problem of inter-service
semantics.  A search by Armed Forces and Contractor managers for an individuality
(unique product identity) created a maze of complexity that obscured knowledge
integration and concept reuse.  

By Baselining (establishing a standard definition) terms in a relational matrix, Sobczak set
common manufacturing terms.  Now, twenty-two years later, the Society of Manufacturing
Engineers still publishes Dr. Sobczak's Manufacturing Glossary under the title: A Glossary
of Terms Used in Computer Aided Manufacturing.  By tagging like ideas Sobczak related
16,000 self-centered terms into a manageable 4,300 meaningful yet common definitions
without loss of content or context.
 
He created a Work Breakdown Structure from current terminology.  Since many basic
terms appear at different levels in an organizational stratum, the idea of Group Technology
(GT) was applied non-traditionally.  In place of the GT grouping of like parts, Sobczak
grouped like methods and ideas.  The result was akin to a Japanese Bonsai tree in shape.
It allowed any use of a term, any place in the organizational strata, to be identified and
tracked as one rather than multiple entities.  This procedure eliminates supposed duplicate
ideas made different only by their location in an archival stratum.  SIID allows a DBMS
index to reference fewer terms.  This allowed relocation of pertinent  portions of main
frame-based DBMS to some personal computer/work station hard drives.  The indexed
structure is quantified by using GTCC to classify and build a SIC/NAICS like structure.
 
Initially, information from three Armed Services who operated manufacturing data bases
was integrated.  Defense RTD&E on-line System (DROLS), National Technical Information
Service (NTIS), Smithsonian Science Information Exchange (SSIE), Federal Projects in
Progress (FPIP) and Lockheed's Compendex Engineering Indexes were added over time
to supplement research needs for wider ranges of appropriate data.  This expansion
occurred as Dr. Sobczak researched the manageable span of control within an SIID model.
Sobczak's research, accomplished at no cost to Government, integrated ideas, identified
misplaced knowledge and created new applications in yet to be considered markets.   An
SIID conducted today might collect inputs from several thousand data bases worldwide
being accessed by numerous search engines.  The extracted data segments and their
reference tags are the fodder of SIID integration.
 
Sobczak, precisely, places the items of data located in a relational matrix.  Dissimilar data
segments eventually integrated within the SIID context provide an integrated universe of
previously unrelated information.  The initial collection process involved writing software
to extract data as a flat file, convert it to ASCII, transmit it to a newly designated host
machine and, when assembled, merge identified data with other like files. SIID
automatically structures the merged result and manipulates data using newly assigned
common format tags (similar to the original IBM Corporation "key-words-in-context").  The
source DBMS and its host hardware are irrelevant to the process once we leech the
relevant compatible data.
 
Dr. Sobczak sells knowledge obtained from public access to Federal and Corporate Data
bases back to agencies of the Federal Government (USAF/AFSC/B1B/PMW,
USN/DTNSRDC, DOD/MTAG, USAF/ASD/XRX, etc.)/Corporations needing the newly
identified solution.  The test bed host repository used by Dr. Sobczak was a Personal
Computer using a data base manipulated by expert system macros produced for the
purpose of identifying targeted topics in various keyword combinations.  Later, Dr. Sobczak
used the CLIPS expert systems engine developed by the NASA Johnson Space Flight
Center and NASA Langley.
 
In 1986, Dr. Sobczak contracted to and constructed an SIID structure and two software
packages for USAF ASD/YP (F-16, Fighting Falcon).  He identified and integrated data
bases from General Dynamics/Fort Worth, Ogden Air Logistics Center, ASD/YPC,
ASD/YPP, and ASD/SI.  The source data had previously resided on one mainframe, two
mini computers and about a dozen micro computers (Zenith 248 & PC 80386).  Sobczak
reduced the General Dynamics Automated Configuration Tracking Information (ACTION)
to a PC hosted information Network (AACTION).  The system functioned on a micro
computer or networked from an LAN server feeding a Financial Management System
(FMS) SIID created for the F-16 SPO.  While not tasked to do so, the final model
integrated the complete F-16 Program by tail number, lot, etc.  This included Air Frame
(YP), engines (YZ), hardware (RW) and PMRT (00ALC).
 
SIID integrates any DBMS to provide yet to be considered solutions.
    
BENEFITS
 
In any endeavor the quest for automated productivity is driven by a need for increased
profit.  While the Government is not a 'for-profit' organization, its Commands, Divisions and
Systems compete for scarce resources.  Those auditing operations judge the cost to a
performance ratio an indicator of managerial success.  Return on investment (yield)
optimize available resources so they might accomplish more for less.  SIID data transfer
functions bidirectionally.  Data created to optimize production can be recycled to bear on
cost effective engineering upgrades.

In any organization with a highly mobile staff, long term projects suffer from a discontinuity
of corporate memory.  To assure consistent and continuous corporate memory, data must
be collected and stored, in a way amenable to prompt efficient and organized retrieval.
The system in operation must be congruous with the policy, standards and regulations that
govern determined need and use.  Most computer systems  in use by both government and
industry are dissimilar in architecture and/or structure.  This causes creation of redundant
and duplicate data.  Potential for success is limited as users depend on incomplete pieces
of knowledge that do not readily integrate nor meet program/project needs.
 
The development of indexable logic structures, for integrating knowledge, significantly
reduces the cost to find and expand the availability of needed data.  Further, by
Baselining, i.e., establishing a matrix of terminology with common definitions and data
distribution methods, SIID integrates tangent yet related support functions.  The ability to
manipulate common data simplifies the search process.  The combined effect of common
structured data, input and validated once, yet, available across operational boundaries can
significantly reduce the administrative overhead associated with identifying alternate use
potential.
 
The extension of SIID mechanisms simplifies arrangement and conversion of dissimilar
data.  Common data appears transparent in a designated user format.  In place of the
current practice of duplication at high cost, a data management-based host-device can be
programmed to create new unanticipated uses of data at minimal cost.  Grouped
information can be modeled and altered to conform to evolving needs.  Common place
technologies within industry A become the esoteric solutions to problems plaguing
industries' B, C, and D.
 
Uniform data allows development of trend information within and among topics being
monitored.  We can paper test (model) resultant trends against many scenarios to optimize
solutions.  In the same manner as data moving from design to production, manufacturing
trends can be relocated to help in optimizing new engineering designs and configurations
without an increased cost.

The SIID model is the tip of a yet unmapped information manipulation iceberg.  The use
of an integrated knowledge-based system allows definition of concepts that can be
reasonably transferred to other uses.  Quantified decisions allow the prioritization of
variables against fixed rules similar to an engineering design of experiment.

Potential product changes, simulated to predict the effects on time and cost, before
commitment of resources, reduce investment.  Depiction of modeled results as three
dimensional spread sheets is possible and realistically attainable.  As we gain experience,
the SIID becomes a generic methodology, a real time lesson learned, to manage, and
train, cadre for future efforts within the universe of the information being reapplied.

Segment Indexed Integrated Data base (SIID) methodology is proprietary to Dr. Thomas
V. Sobczak.  Use of SIID is a cornerstone upon which automated technology transitioning
is constructed.  A reference library of previous SIID studies allows for the reduction of
development expenses.  Use of SIID is a prime factor in the achievement of Return on
Investment from any transition/reuse effort.