Under the agreement with ICEYE, the Army will look especially hard at the ability to significantly cut the time it takes to relay ISR data from a satellite to shooters on the ground.
NRO use of shutter control on commercial electro-optical imagery would be "very rare," and "limited in both area and time," said Peter Muend, head of the spy agency's commercial office.
The similarities of the failed DoD push in the early 2000s to implement "network-centric warfare" to the evolution of today's JADC2 effort are striking and ominous, the CSIS study shows.
The OSCAR effort is designed do develop AI/ML software that can detect spectrum interference and re-route users to open comms channels in near real time.