Modern field operations often feature multiple surveillance aircraft to monitor various adversarial activity, such as air, land, and sea force movement, facility activity, blue force tracking, and other intelligence based on visual and sensor data. Ordinarily, this data is fed through field command to parse and filter potentially sensitive information. However, for maximum combat efficiency and efficacy, this data is needed by joint operational command partners at as near-real-time as possible, but without exposing potentially sensitive or classified data to unauthorized parties. Therefore, a direct transfer mechanism is needed, in a low size, weight, and power (SWaP) form factor that can be installed on the aircraft.
