America's Secret Soldiers - USSOCOM

Conduct operations, activities, and investments ( Force employment,
Continental U.S. (CONUS)-based Operational Support, exercises, information operations) to support priority missions in critical locations
as part of integrated deterrence, to reduce strategic risk, and to facilitate integration with conventional forces during high-end conflict. Technologies will enable SOF Operators to intuitively use information made available by next generation sensors, networks, computing and communication systems to rapidly build situation awareness; make timely, well-informed decisions; and take actions inside an adversary’s ability to react. The physical and logistical footprints of these technologies must be small enough to permit their use without compromising Operators’ speed, agility, and stealth. Technology areas of interest are tactical cloud and edge computing; cognitive multispectral communications; non-Global Positioning Satellite (GPS) Position, Navigation, and Timing; and Integrated cyber operations.