Experimentation Directorate (J9) attempts to alleviate this shortfall by proposing a definition: \"Persistent Surveillance: an operationally focused surveillance approach that uses a full range of strategic, operational and tactical collection methods to dwell on and revisit a target. Persistent surveillance contributes to the detection and recognition of meaningful changes in an adversary's activities that support planning and executing preemptive actions to prevent likely adversary...
Topics: Military surveillance, Military reconnaissance, Military intelligence