Science and Technology for Army Homeland Security Report 1 (2003) / Chapter Skim
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5. Attribution and Retaliation Technologies
5. Attribution and Retaliation Technologies
Pages 112-123
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For this report, it is defined as those operations that are focused on capturing, killing, and eliminating those individuals, organizations, their supporters, and their operational ability to conduct acts of terrorism and sabotage directed against the United States, its territories, and vital national interests. Additionally, these operations aim to create effects and demonstrate consequences that will deter other groups that might plan such attacks and to bring any such perpetrators or their supporting agencies, organizations, or foreign governments to .
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Moving quickly in a crowded city swarming with civilians and hiding some terrorist cells is an extremely complicated task. This iBy "rugged" the committee means dense foliage or hilly terrain where it is difficult to use overhead assets or organic platform sensors to find terrorist cells.
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that can loiter one block away and be called forward by the ground commander when needed. They can provide not only lethal but also nonlethal support in the form of concussion grenades, incapacitating agents, or psychological operations products.
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Recommendation 5-3. The Army should make technologies such as the situational awareness Blue Force Tracking program and the health monitoring system available to the Department of Homeland Security, which will consider whether or not they can be adapted for civilian use.
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There is a need to monitor the key parameters of individual soldiers' health, such as body core temperature, hydration level, heart rate, biological and chemical exposure levels, and wound location and severity, utilizing a system like the one being developed by the Army Institute of Environmental Medicine (U.S. Army, undated)
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7For example, the U.S. Army Night Vision and Electronic Sensors Directorate's technology programs for counterterrorism (CT Echelon Surveillance and Reconnaissance, Multi-Function Remote Unattended Ground Sensors (CECOM I2WD)
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Recommendation 5-5. The Army should adopt a tiered approach to the problem of terrorist cell tracking and surveillance in the urban environment and in rugged terrain, first increasing sensor sensitivity, then networking and fusing sensors, and, finally, fusing information from disparate sources.
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