Video: Targeting Journalists in Iraq is Pentagon Policy

(KurtNimmo) – The Baghdad snuff video released by WikiLeaks has yet to receive much corporate media play. MSNBC, however, covered the video. In a discussion of the video, Brett McGurk of the Council on Foreign Relations and an NSC member for Bush and Obama, defended the mass murder episode. McGurk said the soldiers fired on journalists because they thought they saw an RPG launcher.

Software Swarm to Spot Rockets Before They’re Fired

There are plenty of systems out there to identify the direction of a shooter after he has opened fire. But it might be too late by then. That’s why Darpa is developing a system to spot a rocket propelled grenade before it’s fired. It’s a major challenge, but the solution may lie with a swarm of software agents.

The Rocket Propelled Grenade Pre-launch Detection and Cueing Program aims to deliver “an omni directional, visual, and vehicle-mounted surveillance system for threat detection using cognitive swarm-recognition technology to rapidly detect and identify the locations of attackers with RPGs before they are launched.” Fitting a set of video cameras giving 360-degree coverage is easy enough, but the hard part is the software.