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Japan To Deploy Intelligence System
Tokyo (UPI) Mar 14, 2005 Japan's Defense Agency plans to build a large-scale image communications system to relay information via satellite from areas where its troops are operating. A high-capacity commercial satellite will cover the area known as "the arc of instability" from the Middle East to East Asia, the Mainichi Shimbun reported Monday. The communications satellite will send real-time images to Japan from wherever Japan's Self-Defense Force is operating abroad. The satellite is expected to cover Japan, East Asia and parts of the Middle East and Africa, almost the same area as the arc of instability designated by the U.S. State Department. The agency plans to share intelligence information gathered by the system with the U.S. military, the report said. The plan falls under a Cabinet-approved program to increase the use of information technology to counter "new t hreats," including international terrorism. The system is based on the assumption that Japanese troops will continue operating in the areas it covers as part of international U.N. peacekeeping operations, the newspaper reported. Community Email This Article Comment On This Article Related Links SpaceDaily Search SpaceDaily Subscribe To SpaceDaily Express Military Space News at SpaceWar.com
Space Group To Activate New Unit
Colorado Springs CO (SPX) Jan 6, 2006Air Force Reserve Command's 310th Space Group will travel deeper into the space program when it activates a new unit Jan. 7. Headquarters Reserve National Security Space Institute will be a Reserve associate unit to the National Security Space Institute in Colorado Springs, Colo. The institute is the Department of Defense's focal point for providing education about space power in joint warfighting. |
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