Space Force ISR Boss Wants ‘Predator’-like Asset In Orbit

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Credit: U.S. Army
For decades, the U.S. Air Force relied on its workhorse fleet of MQ-1 Predators to track and identify targets and attribute events on the ground. Maj. Gen. Leah Lauderback, the U.S. Space Force’s director of intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR), says much like the Predator can...
Brian Everstine

Brian Everstine is the Pentagon Editor for Aviation Week, based in Washington, D.C. Before joining Aviation Week in August 2021, he covered the Pentagon for Air Force Magazine. Brian began covering defense aviation in 2011 as a reporter for Military Times.

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