ABSTRACT
The integration of information systems for strategic intelligence would not necessarily improve the amount or quality of technical data available to the leading power. The United States already possesses constellations of air-breathing and space-based sensors. The size of its investment in intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance technology far outstrips that of its European partners, and the United States military would object to integrating assets at a level of fidelity that enabled unique offensive capabilities. With regard to European partners, they might receive a higher volume of data under a NATO system, but in some cases, the take from the alliance’s proprietary technology, built with common investment funds, might, again, be inferior in quality compared to advanced national systems such as France’s Helios II project.1
