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UAVs CPText: The United States Federal Government and the United States Air Force should reinstitute funding and procurement for the Global Hawk RQ-4 Unmanned Aerial Vehicle.First, the UAV worksNorthrop Grumman 12 (Publication: Northrop Grumman Website. “High-Altitute, Long-Endurance Unmanned Air-Craft Systems..” Northrop Grumman is a premier developer, integrator, producer and supporter of manned and unmanned aircraft, spacecraft, high-energy laser systems, microelectronics, and other systems and subsystems critical to maintaining the nation’s security and leadership in science and technology. http://www.as.northropgrumman.com/products/globalhawk/index.html) The family of high-flying HALE Unmanned Systems builds on the common RQ-4 Global Hawk airframe. When equipped with a variety of available mission-specific sensors, they provide intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) information over a vast geographic area without putting anyone in harm's way. Global Hawk missions are to provide a broad spectrum of ISR collection capability to support joint combatant forces in worldwide peacetime, contingency and wartime operations. The systems can also be used for various civil and commercial missions such as border patrol, port surveillance, hurricane monitoring, disaster relief support, and high-altitude scientific research. The systems complement manned and space reconnaissance systems by providing near-real-time coverage using radar, imagery intelligence (IMINT) sensors, signals intelligence (SIGINT), and communications relay capability. (insert advantage-specific solvency evidence)CP Solvency—HegThe UAV solves Heg—provides ISR to the military.Northrop Grumman 2012 “Support: Global Hawk.” Northrop Grumman is a premier developer, integrator, producer and supporter of manned and unmanned aircraft, spacecraft, high-energy laser systems, microelectronics, and other systems and subsystems critical to maintaining the nation’s security and leadership in science and technology. http://www.northropgrumman.com/supportglobalhawk/ Protect Our Troops by Protecting the Block 30 Global Hawk Program. Your recent response to Northrop Grumman's call to action has been overwhelming with nearly 3,000 letters sent to the White House and 186 offices in Congress in the first three days! Thank you for your support to date to help our troops continue to receive this much needed capability, unmatched by any other airborne platform providing intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance to our warfighters and allies today. For the time being, we are suspending our call to action while we work with the Pentagon to assess alternatives to Block 30 termination. The combat-proven Global Hawk unmanned aircraft is the most affordable and capable ISR system available to our warfighters on the ground, in the air and at sea. Global Hawk has the most modern ISR capability in the air today. From providing critical real-time data in Iraq, Afghanistan and to NATO in Libya, to using advanced sensors to monitor damage after Japan's earthquake and tsunami, Global Hawk enables our military and our allies around the world to act decisively in times of conflict and crisis. Built by Northrop Grumman and its 248 suppliers across America from 42 states, the high-flying aircraft are in high demand by forces that deploy them. Explore this site to learn more about the facts and myths regarding the Global Hawk program. Share news updates with your friends, family, and community. CP Solvency—Heg Navy SpecificThe Global Hawk UAV is designed to sustain the navy.Northrop Grumman 2012 (Publication: Northrop Grumman Website. “Global Hawk and Persistent Awareness: Sizing the Global Hawk Fleet” Northrop Grumman is a premier developer, integrator, producer and supporter of manned and unmanned aircraft, spacecraft, high-energy laser systems, microelectronics, and other systems and subsystems critical to maintaining the nation’s security and leadership in science and technology, http://www.northropgrumman.com/analysis-center/paper/assets/Global_Hawk_Sizing_the_fleet.pdf) Just as land forces require layered ISR to gain awareness of the battlespace, maritime forces have a similar requirement for the Open Ocean and littoral areas. The evolving security challenges of the 21st century have prompted the U.S. Navy to improve its maritime persistent awareness for multiple reasons. First, it needs persistent awareness for its common operating picture to support fleet operations. Second, such awareness is critical for the fleet to function as a “trip wire” force for the theater across the maritime commons. Third, it can support freedom of the seas activities while helping deter piracy. Finally, persistent awareness is critical to interdicting trans-national terrorists, including any attempt at transporting of WMD. Denying terrorists access to maritime transporta- tion and preventing the movement of WMD has been a U.S. priority for the past several years. In May 2003, the U.S. launched the Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI) with a host of global part- ners to deter and intercept WMD components moving along maritime routes. PSI’s centerpiece was improved situational awareness and intelligence of the maritime commons.21 In October 2005, the U.S. published its “National Plan to Achieve Maritime Domain Awareness” (MDA) to reinforce the PSI effort. This MDA plan articulated an ambitious goal to increase the ability to collect, fuse, analyze, disseminate and archive information on oceangoing ships, cargoes, crews and passengers. The core of the program will be a near real-time maritime common operating picture linking multi- ple sensors and databases to military command centers plus federal, state and local agencies.22 Given the nature of the maritime environment, a single maritime ISR sortie can contribute data to all of these tasks—fleet protection, trip-wire, anti- piracy, GWOT and preventing WMD prolifera- tion. The U.S. Navy relies on its maritime patrol aircraft as critical to its ability to conduct such overlapping tasks. Since its P-3 and EP-3 aircraft have decades of service, the Navy has launched a Maritime Patrol Reconnaissance Force Recapitalization plan. The Navy anticipates that its recapitalization plan will allow for open-ocean and littoral support 365 days a year.23…. A modified Global Hawk offers a solution for this requirement. The Block 30 Global Hawk will be based on experience gained from the existing Global Hawk program and platform, but can be engineered for the maritime environment and mission. As such, Global Hawk is a low risk solution. It will allow for operations at all flight altitudes with improved corrosion, fatigue and anti-icing capability. The aircraft will provide the key sensors naval forces need to meet the national MDA objec- tive, including the onboard Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR). With an operating radius of 3,000 miles, it will provide wide area surveillance and specific, detailed data simultaneously. For surveillance, the LR-100 Electronic Support Measure (ESM) system will alert U.S. forces to key communications and other signals in a 360 degree circle out to 300 miles—covering nearly 7 million square miles during a 24 hour mission. The radar can search, detect, track and even classify vessels in all weather conditions. While its EO/IR sensors can cover 40,000 square miles each mission with 1 meter res- olution, they can also discriminate targets out to at least 90 miles from the aircraft as shown in Figure 4-1. Thus, like its Joint Force Air Component Commander ( JFACC) counter-part, the Global Hawk will give the Joint Force Maritime Component Commander ( JFMCC) the dual ability to monitor a wide area while providing discrete data on specific locations or forces, as well as mapping vessels around the globe. CP Solvency—TerrorismGlobal Hawk surveillance is key to detect terrorism.Dillman ’11 (Publication: Veterans News Now- Independent Media for US Military Veterans. “Terrorism and Today’s Global Hawk.” By Tom Dillman—US Army Veteran from Korea War. Post-Military degree of Electrical Engineering. His security clearance led to classified work in missile defense, anti-submarine warfare, the space program, and alternate energy. Also, a retired DOD security advisor. http://www.veteransnewsnow.com/2011/07/15/terrorism-and-todays-global-hawk/) The Global Hawk has a nautical range of over 12,500 miles—or, halfway around the world. It can stay or loiter in the air at greater than 60,000 feet for almost two days, all under remote control from the other side of the world. Try to imagine the technology as well as the required quality of the data link to fly it remotely from a source thousands of miles away. Not only that, but the “pilot” controls it from a warm control panel at Edwards AFB, CA. with on-the-ground visual feedback and ensuing commands traveling at the speed of light. The Global Hawk wireless network is controlled via satellite. This pictured unit just finished it 250th mission, many that went from Edwards AFB to Afghanistan or Iraq and back, nonstop. It can taxi out, take off, fly a mission, return, land and taxi back on its own. Basically, they come into the fight at a high mach # using military thrust power, fire their AMRAAMS, and no one ever sees them or paints with radar. There is practically no radio chatter because all the guys or gals involved in the flight of simultaneous flights by other Global Hawks are tied together electronically and can see who is targeting who, and they have AWACS (Airborne Early Warning and Control Systems) direct input with a circular 360 situational awareness from that and other sensors. Unlike the beautiful, short range B-17, there are no blackouts, pilot fatigue, relief tubes, ejection seats, and best of all, no dead pilots, and no POWs. The enemy has a definite morale problem after being pounced on by a previously unseen, unheard Global Hawk with its radar undetectability and variety of weapons systems. It is to air superiority today to what the jet engine was to propeller aviation. I can understand much of the frustration of people who choose to be fanatical terrorists. But there has to be a better way for them to realize their potentials in this life. Forcing America and others theo terrorists perceive as mortal enemies (mostly from confusing religious differences) only leads the world’s technological brain powers to develop Global Hawks and their even more powerful successors that are sure to come down the road. Imagine a Global Hawk loitering out of sight above your city with one to five nuclear bombs much more powerful than Hiroshima or Nagasaki. There will be no place to hide Mr. or Mrs. Terrorist.
CP Solvency—RelationsGlobal Hawk UAV creates relations.Erwin 2006 (Publication: National Defense Magazine. “Air Force to Expand Pacific Region Surveillance, Multinational Training.” November 1, 2006. Sandra I. Erwin- writer for NDM and has won many awards for writing of national defense issues. http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Air+Force+to+expand+Pacific+region+surveillance,+multinational...-a0154330650) The Air Force wants to extend the reach of its surveillance drones over the Pacific region by setting up refueling stations in several friendly countries in the area. These refueling hubs would make it easier for the Air Force to operate its new fleet of Global Hawk high-altitude unmanned surveillance and reconnaissance aircraft, said Gen. Paul V. Hester, commander of Pacific Air Forces, at Hickam Air Force Base, Hawaii. "We are in discussions with several nations," Hester told reporters at the recent Air Force Association annual convention in Washington, D.C. Among the candidate nations considering proposals to host Global Hawk bases are Japan, Singapore, Australia and South Korea. These would not be major military bases, but rather modest "gas and go" refueling stations, Hester said. They would help extend the range of Global Hawk, which is the Air Force's most advanced surveillance drone. Up to seven Global Hawks could be delivered in the coming years to Andersen Air Force Base, Guam. Andersen is expected to also become a permanent home for U.S. Navy units in the near future. Other countries in the Pacific region are being encouraged to acquire Global Hawks, but it's too early to tell what countries will buy the costly aircraft, whose price tag ranges from $55 million to $130 million, depending on the sensor package. "If countries can't afford Global Hawk, maybe they can provide basing and refueling" as part of a cooperative security agreement, Hester said. The desire of many nations to gain access to regional intelligence make surveillance tools such as Global Hawk a valuable "opportunity for multilateral discussions with allies," Hester said. The absence of a formal regional alliance comparable to NATO in the Pacific area has severely hindered multilateral relations. "We do business bilaterally," Hester said. "There is no multilateralism in the Pacific. We are looking for opportunities to do business together." Multilateral collaboration in Asia is "extremely difficult," said Navy Adm. William Fallon, head of U.S. Pacific Command. "They all want to go one-on-one, bilaterally. The United States would like to engage in trilateral talks with Japan and South Korea, for instance. But that is not likely to happen any time soon due to long-standing tensions between the two Asian powers. One area that is ripe for multinational collaboration is training, Hester said. "We are re-scoping our exercise program with our allies. We are trying to transition away from bilateral to multilateral training." The aftermath of the 2004 tsunami in Southeast Asia convinced several countries that they needed to step up their preparations for disaster recovery and humanitarian relief. Training exercises that are tailored to these operations tend to get more attention and increased participation in a region that is considered the world's "ring of fire" due to earthquakes and volcanic activities. "Humanitarian relief is a good place to build on. Maybe if they do humanitarian relief together they won't want to shoot each other," Hester noted. "We have earthquakes, volcanoes, monsoons and we saw the effects of the tsunami in late 2004 and 2005. Those are situations that will most likely bring everyone together into international waters." An example of this shift toward non-traditional training is the Cobra Gold military exercise, which is co sponsored by the United States and Thailand. "It used to be just a few countries focused on combat," Hester said. "Now it has transitioned to humanitarian and disaster relief, so more countries want to participate." Search-and-rescue drills at sea off the coast of California last month, meanwhile, saw U.S. and Chinese naval forces train together for the first time. This was an "easy first step" toward improving military-to-military relations with China, although much remains to be done, Hester said. ¶ "We've often used rescue at sea as an opportunity" to work with other nations, he said. "It's an easy-to-write scenario." Combat rescue is one of those military missions that helps to build ties among forces from different countries. Although the search-and-rescue exercise is a positive development in U.S.-China military affairs, the nations are nowhere close to planning any joint war games. The likelihood that China could one day participate in one of the U.S. Air Force's major exercises such as Red Flag is remote, at best. "Maybe in decades to come," Hester said. Fallon said China is the "biggest issue" for military leaders in that area. During the past five years, he said, military-to-military exchanges with China have lagged and this lack of interaction contributes to a chilly relationship between both countries, particularly since the 2000 incident in which a U.S. Navy patrol aircraft collided with a Chinese fighter jet off the coast of China. ¶ "I'm amazed at how few people have had any interaction with our folks," Fallon said. Most one-star and two-star Chinese officers rarely ever have personal contacts with U.S. military representatives. "Their impression of us is based on assumptions and what they are told" by their senior commanders, Fallon said. ¶ Unlike what many Americans might believe, China is "not a clone of the Soviet Union." It is unfortunate, Fallon said, that the U.S. government sometimes treats China as if it were the evil empire. There is a lack of "fundamental understanding" from both sides, said Fallon. "From the military side, frankly, we haven't been very engaged with them in the past five years. There's a long way to go." The recent search-and-rescue exercise will be followed by a similar drill in November, off the coast of China. CP Solvency—Maritime EconomyInformation is key to enhance port securityPackard 2011 (HP- Hewlett- Packard Development Company. “Secure the maritime domain with real time data for critical decisions: HP Solution for Maritime Domain Awareness and Port Security & Operations Effectiveness” 2011. ) Government agencies and commercial enterprises face important challenges in day-to-day operations and security within the maritime domain and ports. Specifically, the ports are vital and complex environments exposed to security, terrorism, emergency, disaster and operational events.. As a stakeholder in port administration, you handle important critical supplies daily, such as bulk energy, food and hazardous materials. You need to manage known or declared hazardous cargo and detect and manage high-risk elements in normal shipments. These highly critical operations can have significant exposure related to security, emergency and normal operating events, with the potential for severe economic and societal consequences. Exposures exist not just as ships approach a port, but also during the handling and movement of land cargo to, from and within a port. Today’s ports also face tremendous pressure to balance national security while attracting new global trade – and to operate efficiently to stay competitive. You need to be agile when responding to natural disasters, large-scale industrial accidents and terrorist incidents. This requires the ability to anticipate and detect events and provide real-time information exchange and transparency. Finally, ports must modernise systems and procedures, maximise available resources – all while enhancing limited physical infrastructure. Maritime Domain Awareness (MDA) is a critical operation that requires clear understanding of anything associated with the global maritime domain that could impact the security, safety, economy or environment of any nation. The HP Solution for Maritime Domain Awareness and Port Security & Operations Effectiveness can help you achieve a ‘fusion centre’ – an integrated, comprehensive command and control capability to provide a single view of operations that is tailored to each participant. C. Even a small attack would shut down ports and crush the economy and our ability to tradeAllen 2008 (Admiral Thad Allen, Commander in the U.S. Coast Guard, 2008, “Friend or Foe? Tough to Tell”, Proceedings, U.S. Naval Institute, Annapolis, Maryland (410) 268-6110, www.pacnwest.org/docs/friendorfoe.pdf, ACC: 9.25.11, p. online) Some Americans take for granted how the shelves remain stocked at Target, Wal-Mart, and their local grocery store. More than 80 percent of the world’s trade is transported by merchant vessels.2 The United States Marine Transporta- tion System (MTS), a complex combination of waterways, ports, terminals, inter-modal connec- tions, vessels, people, and support ser- vices that intertwines the public and private sectors is the lifeblood of our national economy. Since the United States is the world’s leading maritime trading nation, accounting for nearly 20 percent of the annual ocean-borne overseas trade, our MTS also fuels the global economy.3 As the MTS has grown in global importance, its inherent vulnerabili- ties have also increased. Nearly 700 ships arrive in U.S. ports each day, and nearly 8,000 foreign flag ships, manned by 200,000 foreign mariners, enter U.S. ports every year.4 Annually, the nation’s 326 ports handle more than $700 billion in merchandise while the cruise line industry and its passen- gers contribute another $35 billion inspending.5 Overall, the MTS supports a global chain of economic activity that contributes more than $700 billion to our national economy each year.6 This enormous level of activity results in the MTS operating within extremely tight tolerances, and with limited ability to deal with dis- ruptions. When the port of Los Angeles/Long Beach closed because of a labor dispute in 2003, the cost to the American economy was approximately $1 billion per day for the first five days with the price tag rising sharply thereafter.7 To safeguard the MTS, the Coast Guard has worked with other Department of Homeland Security (DHS) components to produce the Small Vessel Security Strategy (SVSS). CP Politics Link—PopularThe CP is popularJeremy Herb, 4/26/12, “House panel blocking Pentagon’s retirement of Global Hawk Drones.” The hill. http://thehill.com/blogs/defcon-hill/air-force/223973-house-panel-blocking-pentagons-retirement-of-global-hawk-drones/ The House Armed Services Committee is looking to block the Pentagon’s plan to retire one version of the Global Hawk drone.¶ The Tactical Air and Land Forces subcommittee’s portion of the defense authorization bill would “require the Secretary of the Air Force to take all actions necessary” to keep the RQ-4 Global Hawk Block 30 unmanned aircraft operational through the end of 2014, according to documents released Thursday by House Armed Services Chairman Buck McKeon (R-Calif.).¶ The bill would also “limit the use of funds” for the Pentagon to retire the Block 30s, which it had proposed in its 2013 budget. It says no funds could be used in 2013 to “retire, prepare to retire, or place in storage an RQ–4 Block 30 Global Hawk unmanned aircraft system.”¶ The Pentagon proposed retiring 18 of Northrop Grumman’s Global Hawk Block 30 drones, one variant of the unmanned aircraft, which the Air Force said would save $2.5 billion over the next five years.¶ The Air Force would instead rely on the manned U-2 aircraft as a replacement, even though the Block 30 drones were supposed to be a less expensive alternative drone.¶ Air Force Secretary Michael Donley said at a congressional hearing on the budget that the Block 30 drones were being retired because the service “couldn't justify the costs to improve the Block 30's sensors to achieve capability that already exists in the U-2.”¶ But the plan faced resistance in Congress, including in the House Appropriations Defense subcommittee, where ranking member Norm Dicks (D-Wash.) came to the aircraft's defense.¶ “I must tell you, putting the Global Hawk in a hangar is not acceptable to this member,” Dicks said at a March Air Force budget hearing. “I think we've got to find somewhere, whether it's NATO, SOCOM, the Navy, or somewhere, to use these Global Hawks.”¶ McKeon, during a hearing last month, also questioned the Pentagon's rationale for killing the Global Hawks, asking why the Air Force was going with the U-2 when a report had been released last year that said the program cost $220 million more per year to operate. ¶ He asked Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Norton Schwartz to explain why the service "chose to retain a plane that was flown by the grandparents of today's U-2 pilots, especially given that eight months ago, the undersecretary of defense for acquisition technology and logistics certified to Congress that the continuation of the Global Hawk program was essential to national security." Directory: files files -> Answer True False 2 points Question 2 files -> Integer programming and game theory files -> 4 Integer Programming files -> Bpa vehicle Window Repair Scenario #1 task: Procure vehicle window relacement. Objective files -> Pop Warner History files -> North Carolina Inclusion Initiative Mapping Where Children with ieps are Being Served Purpose files -> Fall 2013 Spring 2014 Program Data: Standard 1 Exhibit 4d files -> Hanban – asia society confucius classrooms network 2010 request for proposal files -> Northern England’s set-jetting locations Download 0.81 Mb. Share with your friends:
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