Airborne ISR In Jeopardy
By David Fulghum . Source: Aviation Week & Space Technology .
The Pentagon's airborne intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) is beginning to erode under the assault of aging aircraft, advanced sensors that overload data links, new cybervulnerabilities and shrinking budgets. “ISR is really becoming a crisis,” says a senior U.S. Air Force official with daily insight into those programs. “We're only talking about the future conceptually, because there is no new cash. There's not even the money to continue to fly legacy systems.”...
