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UAV Advantage-Internals

The JPDO is tasked with defining the Next Generation (NextGen) Air Transportation System. Since UAS must be incorporated into NextGen, this relationship is critical. Leverage already occurs with ARMD primarily through the Airspace Systems Program and Aviation Safety Program. The Project will continue to meet routinely with JPDO to synch outputs with the national strategy consistent with NextGen. Objectives: UAS Integration in the NAS ConOps; Ensure UAS are include in the Integrated Work Plan

Because of their inherent differences from manned aircraft, such as the pilot removed from the aircraft and the need for “sense and avoid,” introduction of UAS into the NAS is challenging for

both the FAA and aviation community. In addition, UAS must be integrated into an evolving NAS, from one with ground-based navigational aids to a GPS-based system in NextGen.
NextGen key to UAS
FAA 2012 (Federal Aviation Administration, “NextGen Impementation Plan – March 2012” http://www.faa.gov/nextgen/implementation/media/NextGen_Implementation_Plan_2012.pdf )

Collaboration with NASA and the departments of Defense and Homeland Security helps us explore NextGen concepts, including efforts to facilitate the entry of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) into the NAS. Currently, unmanned aircraft may enter the NAS only after obtaining a certificate of authorization from the FAA. In cooperation with Homeland Security’s Customs and Border Protection, we are operating remotely piloted Predator B aircraft in Florida’s Cape Canaveral to conduct Automatic Dependent Surveillance–Broadcast and digital data communication flight trials in support of UAS integration. To help facilitate the FAA’s collaboration with the Department of Defense, a U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory liaison works closely with FAA experimenters to identify opportunities to leverage research, laboratory capabilities and other expertise. This partnership advances work on UAS, alternative aviation fuels and human factors research.

UAV Advantage-Mexico Scenario

Terrorists can easily smuggle a dirty bomb across the border

The Investigative Project on Terrorism 2010 [Investigative Project on Terrorism, “New Terror Threat On Mexico Border”, July 20, 2010, http://www.investigativeproject.org/2068/new-terror-threat-on-mexico-border]

Border: A Hezbollah-like car bomb explodes in a border town as a congresswoman asks Homeland Security about links between the terrorist group and Mexican drug cartels. This is more than an immigration problem. Car bombs are a terrorist specialty and not a drug cartel modus operandi. The heavily armed cartels are more into shootings and kidnappings. So the car bomb that exploded Thursday in Ciudad Juarez, near a federal police headquarters, killing four, was either a change in tactics for the cartels or a sign of teaming up with a terrorist group, one of which could be Iran-linked Hezbollah. Officials called it a well-planned trap using what may have been the first time that traffickers have used a car bomb since the start of a military-led offensive against drug cartels. It also may be the first indication of Hezbollah's growing influence south of the border. Erick Stakelbeck of the Investigative Project, a counterterrorism research group, says Hezbollah has established a base in the Americas in what is known as the Tri-Border area, where Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay meet. As he reports, "the area is home to roughly 20,000 Middle Eastern immigrants — mostly from Lebanon and Syria — and has long been a hotbed for terrorist fundraising, arms and drug trafficking, counterfeiting and money laundering." Rep. Sue Myrick, R-N.C., recently sent a letter to the Department of Homeland Security asking it to form a task force to investigate growing ties between Hezbollah and the drug cartels as well as growing evidence of a Hezbollah presence in Mexico. "We have seen their cooperation in countries across South America, particularly the tri-border area of South America (bounded by Puerto Iguazu, Argentina; Ciudad del Este, Paraguay; and Foz do Iguanzo, Brazil). Hezbollah operates almost like a Mafia family in the region, often demanding protection money and 'taxes' from local inhabitants," Myrick said in the letter. Last year we reported that Colombian officials were investigating the Medellin-based Office of Envigado cartel as a Hezbollah front organization. This came after the arrest in Bogota of Chekri Mahmoud Harb, a suspected go-between for Hezbollah and the Taliban in Colombia. According to an April 30 report compiled by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service, "International terrorist groups, including Hamas and Hezbollah, have also reportedly raised funding for these terrorist activities through linkages formed with (drug-trafficking organizations) in South America, particularly those operating in the tri-border area of Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina." Myrick says Farsi tattoos have been found on members of drug gangs in U.S. prisons. Farsi is the native language of Iran. She also raised concerns over Hezbollah's training of Mexican cartels in making car bombs and in sophisticated tunneling techniques used in its war against Israel. If the cartels are able to smuggle drugs and people into the U.S., it has not escaped the attention of groups like Hezbollah and al-Qaida that they are also capable of smuggling other things into the U.S. — like trained terrorists or the makings of a dirty bomb. State Department documents obtained by Human Events show that more than 180,000 illegal aliens from countries other than Mexico were apprehended from 2008 through mid-March 2010, including those from state sponsors of terror. Steve Emerson, author of "American Jihad: The Terrorists Living Among Us," said on Fox News recently that compared with al-Qaida, "Hezbollah has got a greater network, much, much more developed around the world," including throughout the U.S., and that "potentially Hezbollah can wreak a lot more damage if they chose to attack the United States within the continental borders." Border security is national security. The 9/11 Commission said the worst attack on American soil happened in part because of our lack of imagination. We couldn't conceive of young Islamic men flying passenger jets into building. Early this year, the Los Zetas paramilitary drug cartel tried to blow up the Falcon Dam near Zapata, Texas, to destroy a rival cartel's smuggling route. Imagine if it was Hezbollah and the target was America. We'd better start imagining what Hezbollah could do in and from Mexico. Our worst nightmare may be yet to come.
Controlling immigration at the border key to solve terrorism

Krikorian 2004 (Mark, Executive Director of the Center for Immigration Studies, MA from Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, “Keeping Terror Out: Immigration Policy and Asymmetric Warfare”, April 2004, http://www.cis.org/node/380)

Prior to the growth of militant Islam, the only foreign threat to our population and territory in recent history has been the specter of nuclear attack by the Soviet Union. To continue that analogy, since the terrorists are themselves the weapons, immigration control is to asymmetric warfare what missile defense is to strategic warfare. There are other weapons we must use against an enemy employing asymmetric means - more effective international coordination, improved intelligence gathering and distribution, special military operations - but in the end, the lack of effective immigration control leaves us naked in the face of the enemy. This lack of defensive capability may have made sense with regard to the strategic nuclear threat under the doctrine of Mutually Assured Destruction, but it makes no sense with regard to the asymmetric threats we face today and in the future.

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