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November 16, 2004November 14, 2013Loren B. Thompson, Ph.D

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Fleeting Targets: Rethinking Orbital and Airborne Sensors

November 16, 2004November 14, 2013Loren B. Thompson, Ph.D

Fleeting Targets: Logic Flow

• In the future, most military targets will be fleeting – mobile, time-sensitive & hard to track.

• U.S. forces are resolving the issues associated with finding & targeting conventional mobile targets (SAM’s, Scud launchers, etc.).

• But plans for addressing unconventional fleeting targets – terrorists, insurgents, weapons traffickers – may be grounded in unrealistic assumptions.
— Surface access to areas of interest
— Timely funding of transformational tools
— Utility of orbital sensors
— Availability of airborne sensors

• The military needs to rethink what will be feasible & available for finding fleeting targets in the future.

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