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Space Based Radar Could Help Sew Up Intelligence, Targeting Gaps, USAF Official Says

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Space Based Radar Could Help Sew Up Intelligence, Targeting Gaps, USAF Official Says
A member assigned to 319th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron Detachment 1 waits to ready an RQ-4 Global Hawk Block 30 for takeoff on July 7, last year at Beale AFB, Calif. This flight was the final RQ-4 to depart Beale headed to Grand Forks AFB, N.D., to be divested and transferred to Northrup Grumman. (U.S. Air Force Photo)

A Space Based Radar providing ground moving target indication (GMTI) could help sew up intelligence and targeting gaps that DoD faced during Operation Inherent Resolve (OIR) against ISIS in Syria and Iraq, a top U.S. Air Force official said on May 17. "We need to start to TTX [table top exercise] what it is that the [Space Based Radar] constellation, that entire enterprise, might look like in the 2027-2028 timeframe," Air Force Lt. Gen. Leah Lauderback, the service's deputy chief…

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