From these, three technologies emerge. These are the critically enabling technologies which, if pursued, will provide the basis for an interdiction revolution. The first is nanotechnology for inertial measuring units, sensors, transmitters, processors, and locomotion. The second, nonlinear modeling and intelligent systems, will support the virtual OODA loop. The third is expanded use of the electromagnetic spectrum for weapon guidance and remote sensing.
Nanotechnology is critical because the sensing end of the system depends on it.
Industry, even now, produces vast quantities of such devices. One example is the microchip inertial measuring units produced for automotive airbag actuation. 44 Such machines could certainly be adapted to fill the sensing needs of our system. Built through use of microchip production techniques, these machines will easily possess the transmitters, processors, and receivers that the interdiction system requires. As stated, this system will have the processing capability of modeling the battlespace with the fidelity necessary to predict the effect of the war fighter's next move.