Common Sense: Improving the Efficacy of Wide Area Surveillance
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Before us stands a great challenge and a great opportunity. Our nation has invested billions of dollars to develop, field, and maintain an array of optical and radar-based wide area surveillance (WAS) systems. The demand for such systems lies in their potential to persistently monitor significant portions of a threat’s operating environment. This ability greatly contributes to learning and understanding a threat’s key actions, associations, and locations, thus providing decisive knowledge to our nation’s leaders. The capability is powerful,
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