Young Weighs Cost of Boosting Global Hawk Imagery Quality

By Christopher J. Castelli / October 3, 2008 at 5:00 AM
Pentagon acquisition chief John Young says the Defense Department is mulling whether it is worth incurring huge costs to slightly boost the resolution quality of the images gleaned from the Global Hawk unmanned aerial vehicle's sensors. "We have a requirement to deliver a certain [National Imagery Interpretation Rating Scale] level, this is resolution quality, and it's totally subject to human judgment," Young told InsideDefense.com today in a brief interview. "Three different analysts can look at one picture and they can...

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