ISR that does not stop at the domain boundary.
BMDS covers reconnaissance from a thirty minute look behind the next ridge to persistent coverage of a corridor. Reach comes from the carrier: a platform already in service takes a compact aircraft to the area and releases it there. The same sensor kit fits every carrier and one ground station runs all of them.
Reach through the carrier, detail through the compact system.
The carrier holds the area, the released aircraft looks closely where it matters. Both feed the same picture, so nobody correlates two screens by hand.
Findings, not raw video.
Detection, classification and tracking run on the carrier. The operator receives objects and positions instead of a video stream, which keeps the system working when the datalink is degraded.
Borders, coasts and corridors.
Border surveillance, coastal patrol, pipeline and power corridor inspection and disaster response run on the same equipment, which is what makes the capability affordable for an agency that cannot buy one system per task.
