
Increasing competition and threats in the Western Hemisphere are driving demand for more situational awareness and for faster analysis of available information to counter, disrupt, deter and if necessary, defeat these threats, the top U.S. military commanders for the Americas told Congress last week. The top three budget priorities for U.S. Northern Command begin with domain awareness, which includes over-the-horizon radar that can see further out than legacy systems, undersea surveillance to have better situational awareness of the undersea approaches,…