New Satellite & Computer Technology Streamlines Intel on China
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By Dave Sterling, CEO of Royce Geospatial Consultant
This week, the People’s Republic of China (PRC) again escalated aggression in the South China Sea with kinetic actions including blocking, harassing, and using water cannons against vessels from the Philippines, resulting in four wounded sailors. The latest incident is the culmination of months of increasingly aggressive behavior by the Chinese in the South China Sea, which included the use of lasers and the ramming of Philippine vessels.
At home, we continue to see Chinese cyber intrusions hitting ports, utilities, communications, and other infrastructure. Additionally, China has surpassed the US with the number of international Space Stations as well as with the number of surveillance satellites it has in orbit.
As China continues to ramp up its aggressive activities, the U.S. must unleash the commercial satellite data layer and advanced technologies needed to monitor China’s behavior and maintain our intelligence advantage in the region.
What if we could automate and scale advanced analytics to take streams of disparate geospatial, signal, human, open source, and cyber intelligence data, and turn them into actionable insights within minutes for the U.S. military and intelligence agencies?
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More specifically to the China threat, what if advanced commercial space-based systems and computer algorithms could monitor and report on the PRC’s global activities in Latin America, Africa, and the South China Sea in real-time?
