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Combat Zones That See, or CTS, is a project of the
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(DARPA) Wikisource:DARPA Solicitation Number SN03-13: Pre-Solicitation Notice: COMBAT ZONES THAT SEE (CTS) whose goal is to "track everything that moves" in a city by linking up a massive network of surveillance cameras to a centralized computer system.
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software will then identify and track all vehicle movement throughout the city. CTS is described by DARPA as intended for use in combat zones, to deter enemy attacks on
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troops and to identify and track enemy combatants who launch attacks against U.S. soldiers. Civil liberties activists and writers of dystopian fiction believe that such programs have great potential for privacy violations, and have openly opposed the project.


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Information Awareness Office The Information Awareness Office (IAO) was established by the United States Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in January 2002 to bring together several DARPA projects focused on applying surveillance and information technology ...
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Surveillance Surveillance is the monitoring of behavior, many activities, or information for the purpose of information gathering, influencing, managing or directing. This can include observation from a distance by means of electronic equipment, such as c ...
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VIRAT Virat or Viraat is an Indian male given name that may refer to the following people: *Viraat Badhwar (born 1995), Australian golfer *Virat Kohli (born 1988), Indian cricketer *Virat Singh (born 1997), Indian cricketer See also *VIRAT *Viraat (di ...
* Heterogenous Aerial Reconnaissance Team *
Closed-circuit television Closed-circuit television (CCTV), also known as video surveillance, is the use of video cameras to transmit a signal to a specific place, on a limited set of monitors. It differs from broadcast television in that the signal is not openly t ...
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Cognitive Technology Threat Warning System The Cognitive Technology Threat Warning System, otherwise known as (CT2WS), is a brain-computer interface designed to analyze sensory data and then alert foot-soldiers to any possible threats, passive or direct. CT2WS is part of U.S. Department ...


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DARPA BAA 03-15
official project description and bid solicitation DARPA Military equipment of the United States Surveillance Research projects {{US-military-stub