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There are both crowdsourced and fleet-oriented apps and systems to do that, and anyone in charge of a bid would know this within 5 minutes of googling the topic from a cold start. It is such a lame excuse I'm inclined to call BS and think it's a cover story.

It's either a cover or the kind of propaganda gig that you see in military dictatorships - "Troops rescue cat from tree!" "Paratroopers deployed to give children candy!" "Death squad visits old people's home with cake!"

You nailed it. Of course it's a cover story. It's USA Today - the newspaper they sell at McDonald's.

could also use non-military-grade satellite photos and this technique: www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA458753

> A bit overkill no?

For just potholes, yeah, but there is a lot of other municipal infrastructure that could benefit from aerial inspection, especially if they are in non-public, low traffic or otherwise inaccessible areas.

Google has Waze. Waze has pothole detection.

Today I learned! Thank you!

Waze also has Morgan Freeman's voice for navigation. Glorious!