Creating an effective multi-domain wide-area surveillance platform to enhance border security
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Parsley, Randall S.
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Bergin, Richard
Morag, Nadav
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2008-03
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Monterey California. Naval Postgraduate School
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North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) and United States Northern Command (USNORTHCOM) lack persistent, multi-domain, wide-area surveillance (WAS) to conduct their assigned homeland defense and homeland security missions. Wide-area surveillance allows military operators to see vast expanses of the homeland. For example, it is the difference between a view of Texas and a view of the broad U.S. southern border - from Texas to California. With WAS, the Department of Defense (DOD) would have access to the big picture. Without WAS, gaps in radar coverage could allow potential terrorists or people transporting drugs into the United States - to cross the border undetected. DOD or Customs would never see them. This thesis examines how NORAD-USNORTHCOM could and must achieve consistent, wide-area surveillance for the U.S. borders, both southern and northern. This can be achieved by combining the existing manned and unmanned radars with Over-the-Horizon Radars capabilities. By combining all three systems to form a family of radar surveillance systems, working as one consistent radar surveillance system, NORADUSNORTHCOM will be more effective in homeland defense and homeland security missions.
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Naval Postgraduate School
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xiv, 85 p.
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