Collaborative Aided Target Recognition Using Next-Generation Foundation Models for Multi-Domain Unmanned Systems

Modern military operations across air, land, and sea domains increasingly rely on heterogeneous teams of unmanned platforms tasked with detecting, identifying, and disambiguating targets at long range, often under appearance ambiguity, viewpoint and scale variation, sensor heterogeneity, and degraded Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT). Today, reconciling observations across platforms is largely a manual, communication-intensive process that is slow, cognitively demanding, and error-prone....