Army ISR-as-a-Service is the right choice to counter near peers
As the military emerges from the counter-terrorism era and pivots toward a focus on
near-peer conflicts, new needs are coming to the fore around aerial intelligence,
surveillance, and reconnaissance.
By Breaking Defense
The Army needs greater standoff distance in its intelligence,
surveillance, reconnaissance (ISR) platforms in order to stay out of
range of more sophisticated capabilities being developed by near-peer
adversaries. That demands sensors with greater range, more varied
types of sensors for detection, and the ability to quickly swap them out
as threats evolve. They also need greater speed and range from the ISR
platforms themselves as conflict zones shift rapidly on a global scale.
According to Secretary of the Army Christine Wormuth, the 2030
Army will need to “see more, farther, and more persistently at every
echelon than our adversaries.”
Hitting home that point, the Army’s ISR aircraft fleet “has been tailored
for the war on terrorism,” observed David Radcliffe, Leidos vice
president and division manager. “We need to start looking ahead to
how we deal with the peer-on-peer threat from Russia and China.”
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