Mr Borkowski said there were also plans to test self-controlled surveillance blimps equipped with cameras.
Colourful blimps, tiny by Zeppelin standards, are a common sight in the skies above cities.
This includes companies that had been given waivers to fly blimps and banner-towing planes over sports arenas.
For years, specialized, helium-filled blimps have floated above Kabul and scores of U.S. military bases across Afghanistan and Iraq.
And news reporting aircraft, traffic planes and helicopters, and airships and blimps operating under visual flight rules continue to be grounded.
From blimps to bugs, an explosion in aerial drones is transforming the way America fights and thinks about its wars .
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America's armed forces have added some major tech to their arsenal lately, from smartphones for soldiers to giant surveillance blimps.
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Last year, the FCC proposed that the industry explore wireless networks that can be operated from blimps and unmanned aircraft in a disaster.
Equipped with sophisticated cameras, infrared sensors and other detection equipment, the small blimps often float 2, 000 feet over an area to keep a round-the-clock watch.
Maybe you have one of those Dads like the Dads in pharmaceutical commercials the silver, sinewy types who go mountain-climbing, fight sharks and skydive out of blimps.
The uniforms, the stadium, cheerleaders, mascots, the game field, referees, the advertising, blimps, and all the other hoopla that signals and symbolize the game become icons.
The Department of Homeland Security last year began testing blimps equipped with cameras and radar, similar to those used in the overseas wars, in parts of the border.
It has got around the state monopoly on advertising by deploying its trademark blimps, and pre-empted objections to that by using them to advocate a worthy cause: safe driving.
The blimps, which can be a quarter of the size of the 192-foot-long Goodyear blimp, have become an increasingly valuable tool for soldiers, who are able to monitor the information from the nearby bases.
In addition to the blimps, border officials are exploring more than 100 other types of military gear, from hand-held instant-translation devices that could be used at crossings to sensors that can monitor up to a 10-mile diameter area for days at a time.
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