Interview with: Dr. Tim J. Nohara, President & Chief Executive Officer, Accipiter Radar

1. Interview with: Dr. Tim J. Nohara,
President & Chief Executive Officer,
Accipiter Radar
There is a need to detect and analyze
security threats in a much wider area
than ever before, according to Dr. Tim
J. Nohara, President & Chief Executive
Officer, Accipiter Radar. As the threat
on the homeland front requires
surveillance that has no time or space
boundaries, sensors must be abstracted
and their information integrated
together so that various agencies can
respond in a coordinated fashion, he
adds.
Accipiter Radar will be present at the
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Manufacturing Summit 2013, in Las
Vegas, Nevada, October 20-21, as a
solution provider.
Ho w h a s t h e su r ve i ll a n c e
environment changed in recent
years?
In the 20th century, radar technology
was the gold standard surveillance tool,
as it could detect uncooperative targets
of interest. In the military context, you
could move your assets and people
overseas to a military operation and
survey a specific geography, where
targets were either friend or foe.
Today, in the homeland environment,
the area of interest is the entire
homeland. The threats on safety and
security can occur anywhere, anytime,
and must be distinguished from the
much more numerous innocent civilian
traffic.
Multiple agencies have responsibility.
Users are not sensor experts so threat
awareness must be user-centric and
easy to understand. These are new
requirements in the defense and
security sector.
What surveillance solutions could
address this issue?
The solution sets of the 21st century will
involve a large number of surveillance
sensors that are inexpensive, spatially
distributed, located across the areas of
interest, but abstracted and integrated
together to provide real-time target
information and historical behavior
patterns in support of intelligence-led
operations.
Sensors need to be deployed on a much
wider scale for threat mitigation today,
and they need to plug and play into a
target information system that allows
any number of users and agencies to
interact with the data in the way each
user’s mission requires.
Why should different departments
share surveillance information?
How would it address the cost
element?
Technologies that act like “force
multipliers” are similar to adding more
security personnel. Governments today
typically have a number of different
agencies and departments surveying
movement of people and goods across
borders or within the country, but at
present, they do not readily share
information primarily to protect the
privacy of their citizens.
The defense sector needs to be much
smarter. We need to distinguish
between personal information and non-
sensitive target information. The
information to detect and avert a threat
is often available, but we lack
connectivity between the dots.
If we shared non-sensitive target
information across departments, we
would get a much higher yield on our
security budgets.
Countries could even share target
information or sensor resources with
friendly neighbors, such as the US and
Canada, without impinging on the
privacy of citizens.
Most movement that is observed is
friendly and good, but it is critical to
deter the small percentage that are not.
By sampling target patterns, agencies
could focus their resources on
suspicious activities. This would be
much more cost effective in this
environment of austerity.
Any final thoughts?
This is a new way of thinking about
homeland security. We are in the
information age today, and radar
information networks will leave behind
the old ways of protecting citizens.
The threats
on safety
and security
in the
homeland
can occur
anywhere,
anytime
Cost-Effective Surveillance in the 21st Century

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About Accipiter Radar
Accipiter Radar develops, sells and operates high-performance radar and sensor information networks engineered to detect, track
and characterize uncooperative targets such as small vessels, low-flying aircraft, and birds. The result is enhanced, wide-area
security through unprecedented domain awareness for 21st Century applications including domestic security, law enforcement,
critical infrastructure protection, bird strike prevention and environmental protection.
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