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NORTHCOM, SOUTHCOM Chiefs Want Improved Domain Awareness, Data Analytics

NORTHCOM, SOUTHCOM Chiefs Want Improved Domain Awareness, Data Analytics
Admiral Craig S. Faller, Commander, U.S. Southern Command, briefs members of the news media on the importance of USSOUTHCOM to the United States National Defense Strategy at the Pentagon Briefing Room, Washington D.C., March 11, 2020. (DoD photo by Marvin Lynchard)

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,…

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