EVERY RECEIVER a SENSOR

ERASE is founded on four core principles: * Broaden the Army's cyber and electromagnetic sensor aperture by leveraging all available tactical receivers, regardless of their primary design function, as potential sensors of opportunity. * Extend sensor reach by developing novel sensor and system concepts. * Leverage all available data by exposing, aggregating and correlating data that is currently hidden within system internals or ignored. * Speed commanders' decision-making by developing supporting data management, analytics, visualization and command-and-control tools. [...]these systems have the technical flexibility to be used in multiple different ways. The ERASE program will build on previous capabilities, such as the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's RadioMap program, which demonstrated how tactical radios (e.g., the 117G) can be used as radio frequency sensors. Furthermore, such data sets will need to be stored as part of a distributed data-management system that will allow processing to occur at points close to the tactical edge; the ideal scenario is for data to be processed at the lowest level possible, as close to where it was collected as possible, so that resources aren't wasted sending large amounts of data back to higher headquarters.