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Air Force Opens New ‘TAP Lab’ IR Data Exploitation Laboratory

Pat Host

Friday, September 16th, 2016

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Air Force Opens New ‘TAP Lab’ IR Data Exploitation Laboratory

The Air Force in April opened a new data exploitation Laboratory with the goal of fostering innovation by providing space-based infrared (IR) data access to a broad industry and academia base.Col. Kerri Mellor, deputy division chief of Air Force Space Command’s (AFSPC) remote sensing directorate, exploitation capabilities division, said Friday the Laboratory is called the Tools, Applications and Processing Lab, better known as TAP Lab. Mellor said TAP Lab, located in Boulder, Colo., provides a sandbox for developers to try…

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