It's a tall order, but Air Force officials hope that an on-board wide-area airborne surveillance system (WAAS), which uses 96 cameras to generate nearly 275TB of data every hour, and a supercomputer hosting the equivalent of 2, 000 single-core servers will fit the bill.
One of the distinguished retired military officers who co-authored the Center study was General John Foss (USA, Ret.), who served as Commanding General, Training and Doctrine Command (1989-1991) and former Commanding Officer of the 82nd Airborne Division with responsibility for deploying U.S. forces to the Multilateral Force and Observers mission (MFO) in the Sinai Desert.