The concept of ‘Global Persistent Surveillance’ (GPS) is at the centre of much debate surrounding what actions are deemed necessary to combat the current world-wide global set of threats. Current thinking is that Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) will undertake a critical role in making GPS a successful strategy. The current definition of GPS is: ‘the ability to know something of intelligence value about everything, on demand and on our terms, and have the capacity to dive deeply into the fine-grained details of specific issues to support timely political and military decisions’. If a nation’s military strategy is to successfully implement GPS, then it will need to horizontally integrate manned, unmanned and space reconnaissance and surveillance systems. Overhead systems will provide synoptic global surveillance coverage over denied areas. UAVs represent an efficient and effective solution to provide a ‘cursor’ over a target under any conditions and at any location. Simply put, UAVs enable Global Persistent Surveillance.

Speakers will include General John Jumper, Chief of Staff, United States Air Force, USA, Secretary Mike Wynne, Under Secretary for Acquisition, Technology & Logistics, Office of the Secretary of Defense, USA, and Rob Zitz, Technical Director, National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGIA) USA.

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Top Stories - November 28th, 2004