"I've been waiting for this for so long, " Mr. Waas said of the Summer Games.

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It's a tall order, but Air Force officials hope that an on-board wide-area airborne surveillance system (WAAS), which uses 96 cameras to generate nearly 275TB of data every hour, and a supercomputer hosting the equivalent of 2, 000 single-core servers will fit the bill.

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