Eventually, the new KRADOS system will completely replace the legacy Theater Battle Management Core Systems -- the service's decades-old air tasking order system -- at the some two dozen Air Operations Centers (AOC) around the world.
“We’re looking at airframes of the future that will have common cockpits, advanced propulsion systems, (and) signature management," Miller said. The goal “really is understanding (how) to modify or build an airplane that allows us to operate through that threat environment."
The MQ-9B and Gambit Series represent parallel capabilities that address global challenges for security head-on.
We will probably never know much about it, but the Air Force's top Electronic Warfare task force has completed its first scrub and should report to top service leaders in the next month or so.