The US Government does not read the works of psychics, so they reinvented the wheel. It is also defined as an all male activity however in practice this is anything but true. Know this that remote viewing has one foot in the occult and one foot in scientific psychology and the mundane World. These two worlds do not work together. Remote viewing is the ability of a person to project their conscious observation, to a distant location in our world, to see or sense what there is.
Distance is no object and there are no limits in time.
The past is fixed. The future is variable. The overall future has a number of possibilities and probabilities so the overall futures has limits. The old ability of Mental Telepathy and psychometry is popular in Spiritualist Churches. The medium picks up an article or possession not knowing whom it is from.