[Scan-DC] Army's Giant Surveillance Blimp to Start Tracking Objects in DC Region

[Blair Thompson]

Hat tip: http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014547229

Army's Giant Surveillance Blimp to Start Tracking Objects in DC Region

http://blogs.defensenews.com/intercepts/2013/07/armys-giant-surveillance-blimp-to-start-tracking-objects-in-dc-region/

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Jul 24, 2013
By Paul McLeary
 
in Acquisition, Aircraft, Army, Budget, Capitol Hill, DoD, Drones, Industry, Intercepts, Missile Defense, New Tech
 
Tags: Army, JLENS, Missile defense

While Congress debates the merits of spending tens of millions of dollars to add missile interceptors on the East Coast while increasing the number already in place out West, a long-running developmental Army radar system is packing up and heading for Maryland.

>From May 4 to June 14, Raytheon’s JLENS, or Joint Land Attack Cruise Missile Defense Elevated Netted Sensor System, was put through its paces by about 100 soldiers during user assessment tests out in Utah, but the company announced today that the 74-foot-high tethered airship is now headed to the Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland for a more ambitious operational assessment run by the US Northern Command.

The soldiers who were trained up to use the system in Utah will make the trip with the airship, but since JLENS will be running on a 24/7 basis once on the East Coast—and tracking anything that flies, drives, or floats near the National Capital Region—more soldiers will be trained to operate it before the assessments kick off in 2014.
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