Am I the only one who is heartened by the obvious push to acquire ISTAR assets without the usual long-winded, unnecessary procurement process?
Actually, I'm not. All this hasty purchasing of ISTAR assets overlooks the big issue of what we do with the information. All that ownership battles and willy-waving do is reinforce the situation where we have plenty of COLLECT assets, but a confused DIRECT function and barriers to PROCESS and DISSEMINATE. I've even heard of some in the RA asking D J6 CBM to make sure that the TUAV downlink was bespoke because "we don't want other people using it"!
We need to get over the issue of who owns or operates the assets, and get on with making sure that the operators have the DATA (not kit) they need - and no, that doesn't automatically mean FMV!