2 août 2018 | International, Aérospatial, C4ISR
By: Valerie Insinna
POZNAN, Poland — The Air Force's ambitious new ISR strategy calls for a sensing grid that fuses together data from legacy platforms like the RQ-4 Global Hawk, emerging technologies like swarming drones, other services' platforms and publicly available information. And deciphering all of that data will be artificial intelligence.
Such a system may sound like something out of a sci-fi book, but the service believes it could be in service by 2028.
In a July 31 interview, Lt. Gen. VeraLinn “Dash” Jamieson, the Air Force's deputy chief of staff for ISR, explained the Air Force's new “Next Generation ISR Dominance Flight Plan,” which lays out the service's intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance goals for the next 10 years.
In the past, “when we fielded a sensor, we fielded a sensor to answer a question,” Jamieson said. What the ISR flight plan tries to accomplish is far more extensive: “How do I get the data so I can fuse it, look at it and then ask the right questions from the data to reveal what trends are out there?"
“We have to do all of that at the speed of relevance — meaning at warfighting speed — so that our decision cycle has shrunk,” she added. “We get our effects in and out, and we create chaos and confusion in the adversary. Once he gets behind, it is extremely difficult to actually catch up.”
15 septembre 2021 | International, Aérospatial
The Defense Innovation Unit is looking for commercial solutions that can provide nuclear-powered propulsion for military satellites.
6 juillet 2023 | International, Aérospatial
Romania is considering opening a regional training hub for F-16 fighter jet pilots which would ultimately be available to its NATO allies and partners, including Ukraine, the country's supreme defence council (CSAT) said on Thursday.
10 septembre 2020 | International, Aérospatial
Quatre pays, à savoir la France, Israël, la Suède et les Etats-Unis, se sont porté candidats pour remplacer les avions de combat de la Croatie et ainsi moderniser son armée de l'Air, a indiqué le ministère de la Défense croate le 9 septembre. En janvier, la Croatie avait lancé un appel d'offres pour l'acquisition de 12 avions de combat, neufs ou d'occasion, auprès de sept pays, dont la Grèce, l'Italie et la Norvège. Le ministère de la Défense se donne jusqu'à la fin de l'année pour évaluer les offres, avant de donner sa recommandation au gouvernement, a-t-il indiqué dans un communiqué. Capital du 9 septembre 2020