-Increased processing fulfills Combat Air Force capability gap of passive find-fix of targets in air, land, and sea domains.
-Sensor Open System Architecture enables artificial intelligence, multi-sensor fusion, and 4th and 5th generation aircraft integration.

ANG MQ-9s require an upgrade to the Multi-Spectral Targeting System (MTS)
for deep-look, find, and fix effects. The current electronics unit (EU) for the MTS is outdated
and is the limiting factor in improving the capabilities of the MTS. The intelligent electronics
unit (iEU), using Sensor Open Systems Architecture compliant hardware, provides the
computational power to dramatically improve combat identification and enable artificial
intelligence/machine learning algorithms to run on the sensor data inside the MTS. This iEU
upgrade provides a significant improvement in the MQ-9s passive find/fix capability, filling one
of the Combat Air Force’s critical capability gaps in that area. Militarized systems in emission
control or highly mobile systems executing emit-and-move tactics are still susceptible to passive
find/fix tactics utilized by the MQ-9 MTS. ANG MQ-9 aircraft will require 23 iEUs (WEPTAC Critical)