Curtain Up on White Space

摘要

Several efforts—developing both inside and outside of the United States Air Force— may in the next few years bring much of the nation's space surveillance capability out of the secretive "black" world and into the open. The trend is toward relying on unclassified satellite systems to acquire vital space-based intelligence-surveillance-reconnaissance (ISR) data. In time, said officials, the openly acknowledged space systems could increasingly supplant the highly classified satellites of today.