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SPECIAL OPERATIONS COMMAND LOOKING TO DITCH SOME OF ITS DRONES, BUY NEW ISR
CAPABILITIES
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SPECIAL OPERATIONS COMMAND LOOKING TO DITCH SOME OF ITS DRONES, BUY NEW ISR
CAPABILITIES
A U.S. Navy Special Warfare Combatant-Craft Crewman deploys an unmanned aerial
system during a training mission on July 15, 2020. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Aven
Santiago)
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Written by Jon Harper
May 17, 2022 | FEDSCOOP
Special Operations Command wants better intelligence collection and intel fusion
capabilities, and officials plan to take a hard look at their drone portfolio to
determine which systems are no longer needed.
SOCOM acquired a slew of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to meet requirements
for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. But some of those might no longer be
needed as the command pivots to new technologies and great power competition
with China.
“We need to look hard at all those systems and go, which ones within our
enterprise are the biggest bang for the buck? And which ones do we need to
retain? And which ones do we actually need to cut away?” SOCOM Commander Gen.
Richard Clarke said Tuesday at the SOFIC conference.
Systems will be reviewed as the command undertakes long-term planning for
capabilities development and resource allocation.
“We need to take a comprehensive look at all of our programs,” he said. “As
we’re going into some specific discussions about future POM [program objective
memorandum] cycles, there are some things that we need to look at hard and go,
‘Is this really what we still need within our formations?’ We’ve got to take a
whole full-throated effort towards that because we’ve got to point towards
China, but we still have other missions we’ve got to do.”
The command is less interested in remotely piloted drones and is looking for
UAVs that can operate more autonomously and reduce the manpower burden for
Special Operations Forces (SOF).
“Unmanned systems have shown great value to SOF operations and will continue to
show great value. The issue for us is, we have a small formation and everyone in
that formation is dedicated to a certain task. And if I’ve got to pull an
operator to have them go one-on-one to operate that unmanned system, I’ve just
pulled them away from the tasks that they’re … supposed to be doing,” SOCOM
Acquisition Executive Jim Smith said.
He continued: “That’s why we’re really interested in autonomy to be able to get
the operator off of the Xbox controlling the unmanned system, and back over
their rifle sights and doing what they were paid to do. And so that’s where I
think unmanned systems will go in the future.”
UAVs are just one tool for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR).
SOCOM wants to leverage more space-based sensors — including commercial
satellite imagery — cyber tools, and other technologies.
“We have focused for the last 20 years on airborne ISR overhead capabilities
that allow us to look down and see [and] sense the enemy with multiple pods on
top of them,” Clarke noted. “We’ve got to layer in the space capabilities with
that, we have to layer open-source data with that. And we have to be able to
pull that all together. And those things that are flying above, we need to make
sure we have the best capabilities on top of them. So, as I look at
next-generation ISR I think that’s something that still needs further
development, because … just buying overhead UAVs — that is not going to be the
solution in the long run.”
Special Operations Command wants technologies that enable “collaborative
autonomy” and AI for small unit maneuver.
“We are going to use a lot of sensors — whether they’re unmanned aerial systems,
unmanned ground systems, unmanned maritime systems, unattended sensors — all
working together,” Smith said. “Our goal is to have those working together
collaboratively and autonomously.”
SOCOM aims to take ISR data collected by a variety of unmanned systems, fuse it
with data collected from satellites and cyberspace, and provide it to SOF at the
tactical edge to improve their situational awareness. Artificial intelligence
and machine learning could help SOCOM sort through the sensor data and separate
the wheat from the chaff, and give commandos the information they need to
accomplish their missions.
“That’s what we think next-generation ISR looks like,” Smith said, adding that a
lot of AI and data transfer will be required to enable that.
-IN THIS STORY-
drones, Gen. Richard Clarke, ISR, Jim Smith, SOCOM, Special Operations, UAS UAV,
United States Special Operations Command
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