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U.S. Senate votes to deploy more foreign radar systems
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Russia Today
September 11, 2008
The U.S. senate has unanimously voted to deploy another radar station in a foreign country, according to RIA Novisti. An amendment to the federal defense budget, proposed by Republican Senator John Kyl, was passed on Wednesday.
It would see $89 million allocated to “the activation and deployment of the AN/TPY-2 forward-based X-band radar to a classified location".
The radar would be similar in design to the one currently slated for deployment in the Czech Republic.
There has been much speculation about where the "classified location" might be, and analysists have advanced Japan, Israel and Georgia as possibilities.
Japan?
Japan is reportedly eager to work with America on issues of missile defence, due to its close proximity to nuclear powers China and North Korea. RT’s expert guest Ruslan Pukhov said this makes Japan an ideal location for a radar base. Click here to watch the interview.
Israel?
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The Senate vote comes in the wake of Israeli media reports, first appearing in Tel Aviv newspaper Haaretz in August, and later confirmed by Pentagon officials, that an X-band radar will be deployed in Israel’s Negev desert.
The radar will be operated by U.S. military staff, making it the first time that U.S. Army personnel will be permanently based in Israel, according to Haaretz.
Under the agreement the Israeli radar will be linked to the U.S. satellite system, and both countries will have access to early warnings of impending missile attacks. The radar deployment was reportedly discussed at meetings between the Israeli Defence Minister, Ehud Barak, and U.S. Defense Secretary, Robert Gates.
A source in the Russian intelligence community told RIA Novosti on Thursday that the radar installation is planned for deployment in Israel.
Georgia?
Following recent tensions in the Caucasus, Georgia has also been hinted at, by analysts, as a possible host of a U.S. radar system. Georgian radars were linked to the NATO surveillance network at the beginning of September. Georgia’s current radar surveillance system is Russian-made.
What is an X-band radar?
A X-band radar, of the type proposed by the Senate, works on the same wavelength as a microwave oven. Its massive power gives it impressive accuracy and speed. It can detect an object the size of a tennis ball 4,700 kilometres away. Serious concerns have been raised for the safety of people living near the radar, for example in the Czech Republic where 60% remain opposed to the planned U.S. radar in their country.
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September 11th, 2008 at 8:16 pm
What are you doing over there Lawrence?? http://www.ncs.gov/news/2008/010408.html
National Communications System Names New Chief for Customer Service
Arlington VA, January 4, 2008 – The National Communications System today named Lawrence C. Hale as its Acting Director and Deputy Manager. Hale replaces Sallie McDonald, who served as the NCS Director and Deputy Manager for a year.
Lawrence C. Hale
NCS Acting Director and
Division Chief, Customer Service Division
Hale joined the NCS in November 2007 as the Chief, NCS Customer Service Division, after having over two years as Chief Information Security Officer of Affiliated Computer Services, a Fortune 500 Information Technology company. Previously, as Director of the Federal Computer Incident Response Center, Hale led the transition of that organization into the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and served as Deputy Director of the National Cyber Security Division’s Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT).
While an officer in the United States Navy, Hale served as an information assurance action officer focusing on secure interoperability issues in the Joint Staff’s Command, Control, Communications and Computer Systems Directorate (J-6). While at the Pentagon, he was a member of the Joint Staff Information Operations Response Cell during a number of cyber events and exercises which helped shape the U.S. Government’s computer security policy.
Hale was one of Federal Computer Week’s 2003 Federal 100 Award winners, recognized for his contribution as an information technology leader.
In January 1999, he became the first military officer assigned to the National Infrastructure Protection Center (NIPC). While at the NIPC, Hale worked to improve the process of issuing warnings about cyber-related events and served on the Year 2000 (Y2K) task force in the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Hale retired from the U.S. Navy as a commander in May 2001. He has a master’s degree in National Security and Strategic Studies from the Naval War College, and a master’s in Aeronautical Science from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.
Signed,
The Rice Blacklist
September 11th, 2008 at 9:05 pm
Another one of these ..except years ago?
Read it and weep/or get mad as hell…
http://www.humanevents.com/art.....#continueA
September 11th, 2008 at 9:20 pm
My tribute, my sorrow
How many, between those which, if they could not have left…
how many, between those which, if they could return…
against the disproportionate and unjustified reprisals,
made in the name of their sacrifice, would not rise?
And how many, between all the others,
feel guilty, by their tacit support,
know themselves accessory, by their indifference,
of this blind, barbarian revenge?
If they could return, I think sincerely…
that they would do all in their capacity,
so that, definitively, all this ceases.
September 12th, 2008 at 2:39 am
“We are the Borg!!! Resistance IS futile!!!” “All HAIL Thermal Expansion Uni-Matrix001!!!”
September 12th, 2008 at 4:27 am
Almost all Czech nation disagrees with US radar in the Czech republic.
But bribed Czech goverment is not interested in it…
September 12th, 2008 at 6:08 pm
I love Liberal/Neocons. Jesus please return and save this poor sinner!