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NORAD, NORTHCOM Leader Cites Challenges With Maritime Warning Role

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Friday, August 22nd, 2008

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The North American Aerospace Defense Command's (NORAD) burgeoning maritime-warning role "doesn't come easy," said its leader, who talked yesterday about challenges with sharing situational-awareness data with partners and his desire for improved surveillance aircraft. Air Force Gen. Victor Renuart, commander of NORAD and U.S. Northern Command (NORTHCOM), in an address at the Heritage Foundation in Washington said NORAD's newest mission of maritime warning has proven logistically challenging. "You have to have good situational awareness, and you all know most of…

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