New Battlefield System "Sees" Myriad Blue-Force Tracking Devices
A three-vehicle U.S. Army convoy ambushed on the outskirts of Baghdad prompts a soldier to press a "help" button on his blue-force tracking (BFT) device, a portable, GPS-based position-reporting system. That transmits a so-called "9-1-1 distress code" to a national intelligence-gathering aircraft or...
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