Darpa Goes Real Time
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Saturday, Mar. 13, 2004
Darpa may have publicly abandoned its creepiest programs,
like Total Information Awareness. But the agency, holding its
every-18-months conference this week in Anaheim, still has a project to make you run full speed into your bunker.
DARPA is starting the planning for a blimp, three times the size of Goodyear's, that would keep watch over an entire city.
Sitting at 70,000 feet above ground, the ISIS (short for "Integrated Sensor is Structure") airship would use a giant, flexible radar antennae to give, in the words of Darpa program manager Larry Correy, a "dynamic, detailed, real-time picture of all movement on or above the battlefield: friendly, neutral or enemy."
"We will apply this technology to track people emerging from buildings of interest and follow them as they move to new locations," added DARPA's Paul Benda.
"Imagine the impact it will have if ISIS tracks the movement of
individuals for months. Hidden webs of connections between people and
facilities will be revealed."
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