Every commercial flight that takes off from the United States is currently monitored by a radar-based ground system that has been in place since WWII.
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Investigators have attributed the failed 1999 Climate Orbiter mission to human error: The flight software used metric units while the ground system that wrote the code used Imperial measures.
So, for example, having an operational Airborne Laser system and a ground based system give the sea based interceptor more timely and accurate information with which to do its job.
Just a few minutes ago, NATO signed a contract to acquire the Alliance Ground Surveillance system.
As a benign example of how transatlantic teams can stimulate competition in high-tech weapons making, defence analysts cite the fierce competition to supply Britain with an air-to-ground surveillance system.
For the JAGM contract, Lockheed provides a 27-month technology development program that includes design, test and demonstration of joint air-to-ground missile system that significantly enhances warfighters operational flexibility and combat effectiveness.
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The Department of Defense is using a tactical ground reporting system so soldiers can report people and events they encounter in the field, in effect crowdsourcing information from disparate sources so other teams can understand what they may encounter.
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' This report shall address the engineering steps that would be needed to develop a sea-based NMD system to supplement the ground-based NMD system.
Cost and Capability: Cost concerns alone should dictate rejection of a completely ground-based defensive system in favor of one that uses both ground and space elements.
Airlines have been split on whether to go with a ground-based system or with satellite-based systems.
The other panel we can see in this image is the Ground Proximity Warning System (GPWS).
The re-instituted missile ground-based system plan will put 14 more long-range interceptors in Fort Greely, Alaska by 2017 to supplement the 30 already existing on the West Coast.
The ground-based system offered by Gogo, which connects a Wi-Fi hot spot installed in a jet to one of 135 antennas Gogo has on the ground in North America, has been running on commercial aircraft since 2008.
British Airways was forced to abandon its plans of moving its entire Heathrow operations to Terminal 5 in just three days in April, after its baggage system ground to a halt, resulting in chaos in the terminal's opening days.
There are, moreover, other ways to provide such a defense notably, from the sea using modified AEGIS fleet air defense ships that could enable a national missile defense to be fielded for a fraction of the cost of the ground-based system.
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There are, moreover, other ways to provide such a defense -- notably, from the sea using modified AEGIS fleet air defense ships -- that could enable a national missile defense to be fielded for a fraction of the cost of the ground-based system.
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The Bush Administration has a sluggish, low-key missile defense effort under way: a limited ground-based system deployed in Alaska and California, which won't be much of a deterrent in today's world, and a still underdeveloped sea-based system modeled on the U.S. Navy's Aegis vertical launch system.
Such systems include all phases of the Phased Adaptive Approach to missile defenses in Europe, the modernization of the Ground-based Midcourse Defense system, and the continued development of the two-stage Ground-Based Interceptor as a technological and strategic hedge.
Whether the U.S. system of ground-based interceptors are the right response quickly became a matter of debate Friday.
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The system includes ground surveillance radars, video cameras with motion detection and "smart" fencing, according to Raytheon's website.
Earlier testing also revealed problems with a Federal Aviation Administration ground-proximity warning system.
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Precise satellite navigation could remove the need for aircraft to fly longer routes that were partly designed around the old system of ground-radio beacons.
Just one year ago, the Bush administration announced it would keep the ground-based LORAN system operational to serve as a backup for the satellite-based global positioning systems, which are becoming ubiquitous in cars, planes and ships.
While this is a significant sum, to be sure, if an apples- to-apples comparison were made, the price of purchasing and operating modern fighter aircraft wings or a class of surface ships or submarines would significantly exceed that associated with a ground-based NMD system.
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The FAA says funding for the new fee system, combined with federal money, would shift the 40-year-old ground-based air traffic control system to a satellite-based, cockpit-to-cockpit system that is safer and more efficient.
The governors are agitating for change, trying to rebuild the system from the ground up.
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The GD300 supports commercially available standalone applications or military "apps" like the Tactical Ground Reporting (TIGR) System which is currently in use by the military.
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That means expanding our homeland missile defense system Ground-based Midcourse Defense to an East Coast site, something that Congress has told the Pentagon to study.
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And the President is hopeful that in the next year or two we can start to demonstrate some tangible progress in finding common ground on this missile defense system.
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