Air Force ISR Chief: Modernization Must Be A Priority

By Courtney Albon / June 9, 2014 at 6:35 PM
While the Air Force's Distributed Common Ground System is an "exquisite" network designed to ingest and process intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance data and make it available to meet warfighter needs, it is also very maintenance-intensive -- an issue that could impair the service's ability to continue to modernize its ISR infrastructure, according to a top Air Force ISR official. Lt. Gen. Robert Otto, deputy chief of staff for ISR, said during a June 9 Air Force Association event that because...

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