Prestwick 5th Dec

[watson]

n420ag by prestwick001, on Flickr

[BOLLO]

It came in then Billy,looks like a poss EA 11 variant ???

[venom]

Fantastic billy

[TonyO]

Wow, nice catch. Google suggests a LIDAR system in the canoe fairing. Another weird Global Express.

[Mark K]

Wow, nice catch. Google suggests a LIDAR system in the canoe fairing. Another weird Global Express.

Yep its a LIDAR system that is being worked on by Scitor Corporation.

Taken from http://lignesdedefense.blogs.ouest-france.fr and Translated from French

Scitor Corporation, a very discreet US company founded in 1979, will be deployed in Djibouti.

Scitor working for the CIA and the US intelligence agencies (he is a former cryptology services USAF and NSA and CIA who founded it). It specializes in the "MASINT": "measurement and signatures intelligence"; Scitor has also belonged to the former MASINT Association became the Advanced Technical Intelligence Association.

Scitor was chosen to adapt the technology LIDAR (light detection and ranging, remote sensing laser) used in airborne mapping, against insurgency.

This technology was developed by DARPA (HALOE program for High-Altitude LIDAR Operations Experiment) that tested primarily in Afghanistan. But according to the head of DARPA (statement of 26 March 2014 before a committee of the House of Representatives.): "In July 2013 the HALOE system Was Deployed to the AFRICOM Area Of Responsibility (AOR) The system Collected data in Africa During eight flight outings through August. " The tests were then carried out from a Bombardier BD-700 (photo below USAF).

It is a second phase of tests "African" that will lead Scitor Corp. over the next two years.

Scitor Corporation, Reston, Virginia, Was Awarded a $ 25,063,344 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract to Provide high-altitude light detection and ranging off-nadir experimentation That includes technology demonstrations and assessments for counter insurgency operations to meet the objective to advance state-of the art in high-altitude off-nadir data collections. Work Will Be Performed in Djibouti, Africa (65 percent), and Baltimore, Maryland (35 percent), with an Estimated completion dates of Sept. 25, 2016. One bid Was Solicited, with one received. Fiscal 2014 research, development, test and evaluation funds in the amount of $ 16,150,000 being white are obligated at the time of the award. Army Contracting Command, Research Triangle Park Division, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, is the contracting activity (W911NF-14-C-0123).

Original article here: https://translate.google.co.uk/translat ... t=&act=url

Mark

[BOLLO]

This as just departed PIK at 13.55.

[muscat90]

dept to Baltimore, which ties in nicely with Mark's post above