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The Los Angeles Times has published a story [latimes.com] critical of JLENS, the Joint Land Attack Cruise Missile Defense Elevated Netted Sensor System. Begun in 1998, the program is intended to track airborne objects" [washingtonpost.com], according to an Army spokesperson, but the Army acknowledged that it can also monitor road-going vehicles and watercraft, a capability that has raised concern about mass surveillance. Built by Raytheon, the system includes two blimp-like tethered balloons, equipped with radar sets. Power and data are carried over the 15,000-foot [defenseindustrydaily.com] (4.6 km) cables by which the balloons are moored.

• 2013 story in Popular Mechanics [popularmechanics.com]
• Wikipedia page [wikipedia.org]

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