Sensors as intelligent robots

The desire to anticipate, find, fix, track, target, engage, and assess, anything, anytime, anywhere (A2F2TE4A) by the US Air Force will require changes to how we modify, build, and deploy radar systems. The radar systems of the future must be intelligent and integrated within sophisticated systems of heterogeneous sensors that operate on many hypotheses at the same time. Within this paper we make a case that an intelligent system of sensors is obtainable in the near future and provide a futuristic scenario illustrating how some current technologies will play a role in obtaining this capability.