Army, J-7 to test new sensor with high-altitude balloon in coming days
The Wallabee prototype is set to provide the Army and the J-7 with more intelligence-gathering capabilities in the stratosphere.
The Wallabee prototype is set to provide the Army and the J-7 with more intelligence-gathering capabilities in the stratosphere.
Army Counter-Intelligence Command has arrested just 25 people since it stood up in December 2021 – but “that number pales in comparison to the number of investigations that are currently open across the continental United States today which will lead to an arrest,” said Lt. Gen. Anthony Hale.
“This institutionalizes this role of transformation that we've been doing in the ISR Task Force, makes it more permanent, and also combines it with the important role of strategy and strategy formulation for the Army Intel Corps,” said Director for the Strategy & Transformation Office Andrew Evans.
“What is enduring is this idea of transformation, you never finish transforming,” task force chief Andrew Evans told Breaking Defense. “Once you finish the thing, you move on to the next thing that you need to transform.”
To find targets for its new long-range weapons, the Army is experimenting with cloud computing and AI that can bridge the gap between intelligence networks and combat units.
The Army’s eager to use NRO, NGA, and other agencies’ satellites to spot far targets for its new thousand-mile missiles, not to build its own, the deputy chief of staff for intelligence said.
The problem with Pentagon cloud and AI projects isn’t acquisition regulations, which you can get around. The problem is people not knowing what the hell they want.
A new policy orders organizations across the Army to embrace advanced manufacturing to “fundamentally change” both modernization and readiness.
GEOINT: Small satellites — thousands of them, spinning round the Earth, taking endless photos from low earth and sun-synchronous orbits. Drones flying round neighborhoods or sitting on your windowsill and taking photos or relaying imagery. And you thought the NSA program that scooped up your phone’s metadata was intrusive? When most Americans think of privacy and […]