“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.”
As aircraft shrink, threats expand, and technology accelerates, aircraft engines must iterate along with the threats.
One of the questions the Army's ISR Task Force is grappling with regard to sensing is how best to "leverage the vast proliferation of commercial satellite providers," said task force director Andrew Evans.
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.