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The primary mission of naval aviation is power projection. Over the years, in order to successfully conduct this mission, the threats encountered have driven tactical air to the night, low altitude environment. Is this still a viable task for the Carrier Battle Group (CVBG) and is it still necessary to support the operational commander? Will lessons learned from Desert Storm indicate a need to redefine the role of the CVBG and give the night interdiction mission entirely to the Air Force? A brief review of the development of night systems is conducted, current capabilities are discussed and a comparison of Navy and Air Force systems is presented. The combined use of night vision goggles with state of the art forward looking infrared (FLIR) systems in Navy F/ A-18s and A-6s is more flexible and provides more capability in some scenarios and environmental conditions than is available from the Air Force FLIR only systems. The lessons learned from Desert Storm are numerous and important, but can not applied to all future conflicts. Geography made it very difficult for naval aviation in the war against Iraq and the next conflict may find the Air Force facing a similiar problem. This paper contends there is still a need for improving our night strike capability and a need for both Navy and Air Force in future joint operations.

The problem of this study is to find a more reliable method of forecasting sales than the system presently being used by the Lady Wrangler Division of Blue Bell, Incorporated. Sales forecasting is perhaps the most difficult problem in the apparel industry today. To a large degree, the success of a business depends upon the skill of management in accurately predicting sales. This study investigates the use of consumer preference data in forecasting sales. Three sets of data were collected and compared statistically. In addition to the consumer preference data collected from 292 female consumers, a forecast made by Blue Bell management using conventional forecasting methods was used. The final Spring 1968 sales for the styles being forecast constitute the third set of data. Each of these sets of data were reduced to an index of 100 for this study in order to mask the actual sales figures and place all three variables on a common base.