The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is building a surveillance system for urban environments.  "Combat Zones That See" (CTS) should deploy thousands of cameras, then knit them together through dataveillance. (quote via ACM TechNews): DARPA plans to award a three-year contract for up to $12 million by Sept. 1. In the first phase, at least 30 cameras would help protect troops at a fixed site. The project would use small, $400 stick-on cameras, each linked to a $1,000 personal computer. In the second phase, at least 100 cameras would be installed in 12 hours to support "military operations in an urban terrain." The second-phase software should be able to analyze the video footage and identify "what is normal [behavior], what is not." Both configurations will be tested at Fort Belvoir, Va., then in a foreign city. via smartmobs