USAF Joint Terminal Attack Controllers 
assisting with recovery operations after Hurricane Katrina had the latest in battlefield technology, enabling them to view real-time video from specially equipped aircraft. Air Combat Command deployed 10 Remote Operations Video Enhanced Receiver—or ROVER—units to the Gulf Coast area for use by JTACs from 9th Air Force, headquartered at Shaw AFB, S.C. According to ACC, ROVERs received imagery from active duty A-10 and Air National Guard C-130 and Navy P-3 aircraft, as well as the camera of a tactical unmanned aerial vehicle mounted on top of a hotel in downtown New Orleans.
The Space Development Agency says it’s on track to issue its next batch of missile warning and tracking satellite contracts this month after those awards were delayed by the Pentagon’s decision to divert funds from the agency to pay troops during this fall’s prolonged government shutdown.
