The arrangement is part of the Army’s Multi-Domain Sensing System program, a basket of tech the service believes will modernize its intelligence gathering.
War fighters need a suite of options is needed to thwart the growing threat from unmanned systems. “There’s no one silver bullet that is going to address this," a leader says.
The service wants to use sensors to "see" across the larger distances expected for future battles. And deeper sensing makes more data to process and understand.