Brandon Herrera

So you can have two Patriot radars right next to each other looking at the same target in the air.

That target is going to look slightly different to each of those radars.

When you have 10 radars looking at the same target, you get what's called track dueling, which you'll have one track up there, but you'll see 17 of them all over each other because that's how many radars.

So through a series of background processes, it compensates for the mechanical biases in those systems because they're not all made perfect.

and creates one composite track across all of them.

So everyone sees it the same, everyone can shoot it the same, everyone has the same control of the interceptors, like it's wild.

Yes, you're getting a ton of data about that track.

So it's like if I sight in a rifle at long distance and I hand you that rifle, you're not going to hit exactly where I hit.

because of the that optic and the way it's designed so imagine i could hand you that rifle and you fired perfectly exactly where i was hitting because you see it the exact same i do but we did that like with just our brains okay i changed how your brain works and it compensates for it and your vision now works how mine does got it okay greater now so does that make sense to everybody yeah

So, yeah, Aegis Combat System has been doing that for a little while, but getting that onto the land side with all the different shooters and sensors that we have has been an overwhelming undertaking.

Like I said, Northrop Grumman.

hats off to you guys.

Cause that was way too much for you to chew.

You bit off way too much.

Cause like Raytheon makes better command and control systems.

And that's what IBCS is, but Raytheon bid it way higher.

And Northrop said, we could do this.

And it was when I was originally working on the system, it was not good.

It was, Oh, it was bad.

And now I mean, I'm talking to some friends out there and they're like, yeah, no, it's working.