Summary: Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) program managers want their intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) payloads to see further at lower weight and in more compact packages than previous designs. Multi-mission payloads involving radar, signals intelligence, multi-spectral, hyperspectral, and other sensors are requiring intensive signal processing capability next to the sensor in the payload to get around the data link bottlenecks and filter important data before it is sent to the ground.
