It is always the big-ticket items - invariably bristling with weapons, laden down with interest from potential customers, and arriving with at least one confirmed order for the marketing and business-development teams to shout about - which tend to attract most attention at major defence trade shows. But none of these systems will perform any kind of useful function without accurate, reliable and properly contextualised intelligence to enable commanders to deploy them effectively, and security systems placed around the data sets they ingest and produce. Suitably, then, the majority of keynote speeches, seminar presentations and panel sessions during the 2021 iteration of DSEI in London in September featured significant discussion on intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) issues -even if the headline topic of each session was more geared towards a platform or technology optimised for other roles.
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