US Needs Hi-Lo Mix Of ‘Exquisite’ & Affordable ISR: Intel Official
"Those will be debates we'll have over the next couple of years, and those are some tough choices," intelligence official Kevin Sherman told me. "Do we reduce some of those capabilities have been very helpful in the CT (counter-terrorism) fight, that a lot of our combatant commands have relied on, in order to buy more exquisite things?"
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. on July 18, 2018 at 5:51 PM
The days when the U-2 spyplane was cutting edge are long gone, but it’s still a vital workhorse of US intelligence.
CAPITOL HILL CLUB: Under the new National Defense Strategy, the nation must invest in cutting-edge technologies to take on Russia or China in a major war. But even as we do that, we can’t neglect the lower-end, lower-cost systems that gather intelligence everyday in peacetime, a senior Pentagon intel official said. We need to strike a balance between a small number of high-tech, high-cost capabilities and a larger number of more mundane ones, Kevin Sherman told an Army signals intelligence (SIGINT) conference this morning, for three reasons:
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