Step one: We need to get rid of these complex, bespoke technology development programs and go COTS.
Step two: Systems not platforms! It's the electronics that really matter. We could stick them on a drone and that would be great, because drones!
Step three: The kit don't fit.
Step four: Redesign the electronics.
Step five: The drone isn't capable enough.
Step six: Well, let's use several drones in a [adopts Californian tone] networked swarm.
Step seven: Bandwidth.
Step eight: *Autonomous* drones!
Step nine: The mission profile really doesn't fit with the Reaper airframe.
Step ten: Why not...deploy another tiny UAV from the drone?
Step eleven: And redesign the radios to work securely in the civilian spectrum
Step twelve: Well, at least we'll save on crew.
Step thirteen: Uh, no, you need a crew of five per drone per shift...
Step fourteen: Automated ISTAR!!
So that's a swarming, autonomous, horizontally networked, marinised fleet of UAVs deploying sub-UAVs and using over-the-horizon cognitive radio, with an automatic underwater target classification system, and it's got to use the MQ-9 air vehicle and associated infrastructure. Thank god we didn't start one of those terrible technology development projects!