A U.S. Navy radar developed in secrecy for tracking targets at sea has been playing an important role on land because of its ability to track objects smaller than trucks or cars. One knowledgeable official says the radar is one of the "groundbreaking" insurgent-hunting technologies referred to, though not by name, in Bob Woodward's latest book, "The War Within." The Littoral Surveillance Radar System, or LSRS, was "born black" and developed as a "deeply, deeply classified system," according to a knowledgeable official who was not authorized to speak for the program. LSRS operates from P-3C Orions and can be used to track targets on land or sea, and to provide images of those targets to intelligence analysts and commanders. Boeing, Raytheon and L-3 Communications collaborated on it.
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