Citation

Fulghum DA. Aviat. Week Space Technol. 2004; 161(18): 30.

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(Copyright © 2004, McGraw-Hill)

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Abstract

The intelligence demands from the U.S. high-tech terrorist war troops in Iraq and Afghanistan have changed from traditional data on organized forces to an intense focus on individuals, events or organizations and what links them, including their financial underpinnings. U.S. aerospace companies are developing sensors such as BAE Systems' airborne WolfPack. It puts ground sensors on small UAVs that can use their engines to recharge sensor batteries or to reposition the sensor. An airborne system is flex over an area to get special surge coverage of hits from a (ground) system, according to Kimmons. U.S. needs to field hyper-spectral, which can analyze targets from a long range and over wide areas, and acoustic sensors, according to Edward Bair.