NEEDS 3.1 ?

I vaguely recall some talk that ACES was looking into distributing
NEEDS 3.x. Is this going to happen anytime soon?

(Background)

NEEDS (the Numerical Electromagnetic Engineering Design System) was
developed at NOSC in the late 1980's as a series of graphical pre- and
post-processors for NEC-2. In its original incarnation, it was a DOS
based tool with all the problems and limitations which that implies.
Many of us acquired copies of NEEDS 1.0 and 2.0 through ACES.

More recently, NEEDS has been totally re-written for UNIX and the X
Window System. The on-line documentation is "Approved for public
release; distribution is unlimited" and can be browsed at

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    Numerical Electromagnetic Engineering Design System (NEEDS 3.1)
    Workstation User's Manual

    J. C. Lam, J. W. Rockway, L. C. Russell, D. T. Wentworth

    November 1995

    http://manta.nosc.mil/~ratliff/td/2870/nradtd2870homepg.html
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    Numerical Electromagnetic Engineering Design System (NEEDS 3.1)
    Workstation Programmer's Manual

    J. C. Lam, J. W. Rockway, L. C. Russell, D. T. Wentworth

    November 1995

    http://manta.nosc.mil/~ratliff/td/2871/nradtd2871homepg.html
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The work detailed in these reports was performed for the Naval Sea
Systems Command by the Naval Command, Control and Ocean Surveillance
Center, RDT&E Division, Applied Electromagnetics Branch, Code 851.
Funding was provided under Program Element 0603563N.

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Dave Michelson                             University of British Columbia 
davem_at_ee.ubc.ca                              Radar Remote Sensing Group