JASON Defense Advisory Group

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The JASON Defense Advisory Group , or JASON for short , is an independent group of university academics in the USA who advise the government on technological issues relating to national security .

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It was founded in 1958/9 by physicists like Sidney Drell , Kenneth Watson , John Archibald Wheeler , Charles H. Townes and Marvin Leonard Goldberger , who come from a younger generation than those who worked at Los Alamos National Laboratory or at MIT during the war . Radiation Lab came to influence (like Edward Teller and Robert Oppenheimer ). At first they were connected to the " Institute for Defense Analyzes " (IDA), which was founded in 1957 as a think tank for the Ministry of Defense and various secret services in the vicinity of MIT.

JASON has approximately 30 to 60 members and is affiliated with the MITER Corporation (a non-profit organization based in McLean, Virginia that conducts science for the Department of Defense).

Jason’s work is financed by the US Department of Defense (DOD) and there often by DARPA , the US Navy, the Department of Energy (DOE) and various US intelligence agencies. Most of the Jason reports are secret. Mostly they are worked out during an annual meeting of Jason in the summer. Examples of reports include communication with submarines over extremely long wavelengths (Project Sanguine , Project Seafarer), adaptive optics, missile defense, a 1979 report predicting CO 2 global warming, nuclear test verification technologies and uranium enrichment facilities and during the Vietnam War Systems of Electronic Mission Surveillance.

Members

JASON members are chosen by them themselves and have to meet a high academic standard. Over time, eleven Nobel Prize winners and dozens of members of the US National Academy of Sciences were among them.

When DARPA wanted to force the admission of three members in 2002, JASON refused and the DARPA funding was discontinued. However, it was continued by another agency of the Department of Defense (DOD).

Jason is headed by Roy Schwitters (as of 2004). Jason has not published a list of its members. Membership is only known if the members themselves made this known publicly, or if this can be inferred from the fact that they co-authored some of the reports. Among its members, which included many physicists from the field of elementary particle physics, were, in addition to those mentioned above, at times u. a. Luis Walter Alvarez , James Bjorken , Keith Brueckner , Curtis Callan , Kenneth Case , Norman Christ , John Cornwall , John Conway , Roger Dashen , Freeman Dyson , Harold Furth , Richard Garwin , Val Fitch , Henry Foley , Michael Freedman , Edward Frieman , Donald A. Glaser , Peter Hagelstein , Paul Horowitz , Terry Hwa , Joseph B. Keller , Henry W. Kendall , George Kistiakowsky , Steven Koonin , Norman Kroll , Joshua Lederberg , Leon M. Lederman , Harold Lewis , Francis Low , Gordon JF MacDonald , Bernd Matthias , Elliott Montroll , Richard A. Muller , Walter Munk , David Nelson , William Stuhlrenberg , Gerard Kitchen O'Neill , Wolfgang Panofsky , William H. Press , Burton Richter , Marshall Rosenbluth , Malvin Ruderman , Edwin Salpeter , Matthew Sands , John Robert Schrieffer , Charles P. Slichter , Paul J. Steinhardt , Sam Treiman , Steven Weinberg , Eugene Wigner , W. Hugh Woodin , Herbert York , Fredrik Zachariasen , George Zweig .

Selection of Jason Studies

  • National Ignition Facility (NIF) (June 2005)
  • Tactical Infrasound (May 2005)
  • High Performance Biocomputation (March 2005)
  • Sensors to Support the Soldier (February 2005)
  • Horizontal Integration: Broader Access Models for Realizing Information Dominance
  • Active Sonar Waveform, (June 2004)
  • The Computational Challenges of Medical Imaging, (February 2004)
  • Requirements for Advanced Simulation and Computing Program (ASCI), October 2003
  • Portable Energy for the Dismounted Soldier, June 2003
  • Turbulent Boundary Layer Drag Reduction, May 2003
  • High Power Lasers, April 2003
  • Biodetection Architectures, February 2003
  • Opportunities at the Intersection of Nanoscience, Biology and Computation, November 2002
  • Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Program, April 2002
  • Non-GPS Methods of Geolocation, January 2002
  • Biofutures, (June 2001)
  • Spintronics, (February 2001)
  • Advantage of Base-Line Redundancy in Sparse Apertures, (September 2000)
  • Space Infrastructure for 2020, (September 2000)
  • Imaging Infrared Detectors II, (June 2000)
  • Molecular Electronics: Interfacing the Nano- and Micro-Worlds, (May 2000)
  • Power Sources for Ultra Low Power Electronics, (June 2000)
  • LEO: Small-Payload Launch Options, (January 2000)
  • Data Mining and the Human Genome (January 2000)
  • Primary Performance Margins (December 1999) (unclassified introduction)
  • System-Level Flight Tests, (December 1999)
  • Remanufacture (of Nuclear Weapons), (October 1999)
  • Army Battlefield Communications (September 1999)
  • Characterization of Underground Facilities (April 1999)
  • Non-destructive Evaluation and Self-Monitoring Materials (April 1999)
  • Electro Thermal Chemical Gun Technology Study (March 1999)
  • Small Unit Operations (June 1998)
  • Signatures of Aging Revisited (March 1998)
  • Signatures of Aging [of nuclear weapons] (January 1998)
  • Counterproliferation (January 1998)
  • High Energy Density Explosives (October 1997)
  • Human Genome Project (October 1997)
  • Small Scale Propulsion: Fly on the Wall, Cockroach in the Corner, Rat in the Basement etc.
  • Subcritical Experiments (March 1997)
  • Quantum Computing (July 1996)
  • Inertial Confinement Fusion (ICF) Review (March 1996)
  • DNA Computing (October 1995)
  • Nuclear Testing: Summary and Conclusions (August 1995)
  • Microsurveillance of the Urban Battlefield (February 1995)
  • JASON Global Grid Study (July 1992)
  • Small Satellites (August 1991)
  • Verification Technology: Unclassified Version (October 1990)
  • Neutrino Detection Primer (March 1988)
  • The Long Term Impact of Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide on Climate (1979) JSR-78-07
  • Sonic Boom Report (November 1978)
  • Laser Propulsion Study (Summer 1977)
  • Tactical Nuclear Weapons in Southeast Asia (March 1967)

According to the memories of Matthew Sands, JASON was also extensively involved in the evaluation of the ideas of Nicholas Christofilos in the 1960s (e.g. Operation Argus ).

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  1. ↑ the name is not an acronym , but was chosen by the woman (Mildred Goldberger) one of the founders after the figure Jason from Greek mythology, because she did not like the name Project Sunrise, which was initially chosen
  2. ↑ Naomi Oreskes and Jonathan Renouf, Jason and the secret climate change war , Sunday Times , September 7, 2008