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I think this is an excellent summary of best practice and use of the "trinity" but I'd think we could stand on the shoulders of what's been learnt in Ukraine: - We could have very low power ground based sensor pods that wake on activity and send intelligence back. Just a few hundred thousand of these small cheap expendable pods dropped around with mics on could track every tank engine, gunshot or helicopter even in a country as big as Ukraine for months. Think Amazon Blink like construction and capability - imagine coupling these with remote "drone in a box" ISR units - "make every citizen a sensor" with an app that can send photos and audio over the cell network - add EW capability into phone masts - Put drones in drones - put 100 kinetic drones in a long range logistics drone. Something like a Windracer. You could happily launch an attack more than 500 miles away piloting the kinetics over the cell network. Use something like the ill fated STM or an autonomous Skyrunner and they wont see you on radar... - mortar launched and glide to target drones will defeat cUAS most of the time Or - you know - we could strap a grenade to an FPV quadcopter

Could not have said it better myself. You can admire Congressional intent and NDAA language from here to eternity. Somebody has to write the checks, do the blocking and tackling in terms of governance, program(s) design, close-in requirements assessment, architecture and design framing, and then get on with building, delivering and sustaining. In a previous post, I postulated the sorts of costs involved. Won't rehash that, except to reassert that we don't get anywhere by remaining in denial. Here's the good news... It's quite likely that, as you go from base to base, and start doing the hard learning and heavy lifting, each base will get easier and probably less expensive than the last. But you won't accrue these economies of scale until you start in earnest. If you wait until some or most of your R&D-funded prototypes kind of dry up and blow away due to lack of transition and sustainment, well, you've started too late. I had high hopes a few years ago that by 2024, we'd have at least a few DoD bases fully modernized to mostly secure private wireless, integrated seamlessly with legacy wired, and operated and sustained from fenceline to fenceline. We're not there yet, but 2024 is not over yet. As our esteemed former DoN CIO, Mr. Aaron Weis, used to say, "All of that would have to occur inside the radius of POM." Yes, well, no kidding - and nobody thought a few years back to POM and fully program the dollars to get on with this at any kind of meaningful scales. So here we are; admiring the problem.

Old article but good perspective on the Cyber-Space-SOF Triad and the evolution of the kill chain to a kill web.

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