Comments on: NORAD – Tracking Missles, Planes, Santa and… Ships

By: TSA’s Security Operations Center

TSA’s Security Operations Center — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 06:27:15 +0000

[...] Analysis I especially liked the monitors they have set up. I’m not sure that this really does anything but allow an analyst to see when a plane goes awry. However I’m impressed that they spent such a good amount of tax dollars for those plasma screens I really don’t see much of a point to monitor where the air marshals are. I mean, c’mon, if some terrorist got on a plane or issued a bomb threat, what the heck is this analyst going to do with knowing that someone is on a plane, give the person a call? lol. Another wasteful government project in my opinion. I mean, monitoring the physical world with a computer does nothing to protect citizens in real time. I thought the DOD’s NORAD was responsible for monitoring the skies with their own tracking system? [...]

By: watermon

watermon — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 14:15:00 +0000

A partnership with Canada in rapidly developing an ADVANCED SPACE-BASED AIS detection would increase maritime domain situational awareness in a positive manner.

Recently, John Keating, CEO of COM DEV. stated that “Space-based collection of AIS data offers tremendous cost and performance advantages over existing methods of monitoring marine traffic.”

For instance, a reliable satellite-based collection system would eliminate the 50-mile limitation as well as the need to build large numbers of ground stations along the world’s coastlines. Existing AIS transmissions can be received from space.

Check it out for more exciting information:

http://www.comdev.ca/pressrel/2007/071017.html

By: watermon

watermon — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 12:15:00 +0000

A partnership with Canada in rapidly developing an ADVANCED SPACE-BASED AIS detection would increase maritime domain situational awareness in a positive manner.

Recently, John Keating, CEO of COM DEV. stated that “Space-based collection of AIS data offers tremendous cost and performance advantages over existing methods of monitoring marine traffic.”

For instance, a reliable satellite-based collection system would eliminate the 50-mile limitation as well as the need to build large numbers of ground stations along the world’s coastlines. Existing AIS transmissions can be received from space.

Check it out for more exciting information:

http://www.comdev.ca/pressrel/2007/071017.html

By: Pingree on Security

Pingree on Security — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

project in my opinion. I mean, monitoring the physical world with a computer does nothing to protect citizens in realtime. I thought the DOD’s NORAD was responsible for monitoring the skies with their owntracking system? I’d rather them spend the money to have more air marshals on planes than deploy advanced equipment simply to tell where agents are on their planes. There is an aspect of coolness and geek factor but other than that it seems wasteful to me. Anyone