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Official Says Empire Challenge 10 Offers Successes–And Vulnerability

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Wednesday, October 13th, 2010

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By Ann Roosevelt Empire Challenge 10, the Defense Department's the annual premier intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) demonstration, aims to improve how information reaches warfighters in a timely fashion, and found vulnerabilities. One of the most important successes was the integration of the Persistent Ground Surveillance System (PGSS), an aerostat with a camera that produces full motion video, that in one area of Afghanistan is co-located with the U.K. CORTEZ force-protection system, said John Kittle, Empire Challenge program manager at…

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