{"id":71191,"date":"2025-05-15T14:34:23","date_gmt":"2025-05-15T14:34:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/uncategorized\/2025\/05\/15\/army-explores-ultra-long-range-launched-effects-to-spy-from-the-sky\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T01:18:04","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T01:18:04","slug":"army-explores-ultra-long-range-launched-effects-to-spy-from-the-sky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/land\/2025\/05\/15\/army-explores-ultra-long-range-launched-effects-to-spy-from-the-sky\/","title":{"rendered":"Army explores ultra-long-range launched effects to spy from the sky"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">NASHVILLE, Tenn. \u2212 The U.S. Army is pursuing concepts to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/land\/2025\/01\/10\/us-army-wants-spy-drones-to-launch-from-high-altitude-motherships\/#:~:text=The%20Army%20is%20scouring%20industry,business%20opportunities%20portal%20Sam.gov.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\" title=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/land\/2025\/01\/10\/us-army-wants-spy-drones-to-launch-from-high-altitude-motherships\/#:~:text=The%20Army%20is%20scouring%20industry,business%20opportunities%20portal%20Sam.gov.\">deploy ultra-long-range effects<\/a> to surveil deep in the battlespace, according to the service\u2019s Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance Task Force director.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe may have to have standoff capability that we\u2019ve not yet envisioned today,\u201d Andrew Evans said Wednesday at the Army Aviation Association of America\u2019s annual conference. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Army is already focused on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/land\/2024\/10\/16\/army-speeds-up-development-of-multipurpose-launched-effects\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/land\/2024\/10\/16\/army-speeds-up-development-of-multipurpose-launched-effects\/\">developing launched effects<\/a> from both ground and air platforms for short, medium and long-range distances. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWhat we\u2019re going to do in the intel space is demonstrate what we call ultra-long-range launched effects,\u201d Evans said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWhat we\u2019re looking at doing is something that represents a thousand miles past the prime mover, so imagine a system that can deliver a launched effect that can get itself into a position of launch and then a thousand miles beyond that, which is over-the-horizon sensing. You\u2019re getting into some game-changing capabilities.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The ISR Task Force plans to conduct a user demonstration in 2026 exploring what this concept could look like using a commercial aircraft to then deploy a long-range launched effect. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe believe industry has solved a lot of these problems already. What we have done is get all the right industry partners together to try to figure out how to build the ecosystem around that,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Army\u2019s approach will likely first focus on the \u201cglide body itself, the propulsion vehicle,\u201d Evans said, then the service will layer in sensing capabilities. Lastly, it will focus on \u201cbackhauling\u201d or transporting the data off of the platform to the relevant command and control interfaces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe sensing and the backhaul are not trivial,\u201d said Lawrence Mixon, special assistant to the Program Executive Officer for Intelligence, Electronic Warfare and Sensors at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cOur integrated sensor architecture folks within the PEO have already been working in that regard with standards from data that should help in partnering with industry to get through that backhaul piece,\u201d he said, adding, \u201cit also ties back into next-generation command-and-control and standards there to enable that information to get to decision makers, to commanders.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Earlier this year, the Army issued a call to industry looking for unmanned aircraft systems to launch from medium- or high-altitude platforms that would perform tasks like ISR, according to the notice posted to the federal business opportunities portal Sam.gov. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A demonstration of operational capability is planned for the fiscal 2026 timeframe. This effort will also help inform the work in which the ISR Task Force is engaged.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While the task force\u2019s demonstration would not use the Army\u2019s emerging high-speed spy jet<a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/land\/2024\/08\/22\/us-army-picks-sierra-nevada-for-long-range-spy-plane-integration-work\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/land\/2024\/08\/22\/us-army-picks-sierra-nevada-for-long-range-spy-plane-integration-work\/\"> called HADES, which is short for \u201cHigh Accuracy Detection and Exploitation System<\/a>,\u201d one concept for an ultra-long-range effect uses the long legs of that platform to deeply penetrate over enemy territory, followed by an even deeper journey using the launched effect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">HADES is currently in the prototyping phase.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe\u2019re in a situation where we may not even be able to 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