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Friday, March 23, 2012

U.S. Arctic plans could serve as a wake-up call for Canada

[Hector Castillo]The Pentagon wants to know what’s happening in the Arctic; there’s an app for that.

Well not yet, but Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency wants one in a hurry. In a call for proposals this week, it said it plans to pick, deploy and test two systems this summer.

“Remote sensing may offer affordable advantages over traditional methods of monitoring the region – aircraft, satellites or manned ships and submarines – due to the great distances in the Arctic,” the agency said in a call for bids. The U.S. military wants “new technologies to monitor the Arctic both above and below the ice, providing year-round situational awareness without the need for forward-basing or human presence.”

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