U.S. Special Operations Command and the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity are pursuing new technologies to identify and track threats. Commandos rely on these types of capabilities when attacking terrorist groups and performing other critical missions. "Intel drives ops," SOCOM Commander Gen. Richard Clarke said at a recent Senate Armed Services Committee hearing. "In order for us to compete more effectively in the future, we have to modernize both our precision strike and ISR ... so that [special operators] can quickly see and sense the battlefield that they may have to be fighting in." Encrypted communications and electronic warfare capabilities are also critical to protect the force, he noted. SOCOM's program executive office for special reconnaissance is responsible for pursuing these types of technologies.
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