The service did away with the pursuit of a new manned armed scout helicopter and is grappling with how to fill the gap using a network of smart drones.
“The relationship between Iran and Russia? That really started when they asked for them to provide the one-way attack UAS, specifically the Shahed-136.”
The Army's All-Domain Sensing Cross-Functional Team will focus on the challenge of building an architecture of sensors that can rapidly distribute data.
Laser and microwave weapons are considered critical elements of layered defense, or having different countermeasures ready to thwart different threats.
The move comes a little more than a week after the Defense Department rolled out its fiscal 2025 budget blueprint, which featured $14.5 billion for cyber.