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MUSIC Exercise Will Offer Glimpse of Future Capabilities

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Thursday, May 12th, 2011

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By Ann Roosevelt This fall, the Army will host the Manned Unmanned Systems Integration Capability (MUSIC) exercise, a showcase for "innovation, integration and ultimately interoperability" that lays the ground work for future capabilities, service officials said. "It's the ability to transfer multi-int[elligence] functionality between platforms, whether they be signals intelligence, synthetic aperture radar capability, or whether they be HUMINT-type of information, and being able to fuse that information in a way that we haven't been able to do," said Tim…

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