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.
The sensors will be part of the Army’s High Accuracy Detection and Exploitation System (HADES), an undetermined aircraft that will be one piece of the service's family of deep-sensing systems.
The $7.5 million investment for a new networked systems center of excellence comes as the Defense Department looks to advance its future joint war-fighting concept.
To interconnect in future fights, the 13 friendly nations are talking now about how to collect and prepare data for artificial intelligence that will drive those battles.