 I'm Staff Sergeant Jonathan Cardona. I'm originally from Dover, New Jersey, and I'm a Raven team lead member. My name is Staff Sergeant Cantrell. I'm from Abington, Pennsylvania, and I am a Raven team leader. On Sunday, August 15th, I got a call. It was about 2 p.m. on August 15th, saying that we had to be ready to go in 20 minutes because we were catching a flight out. So I told my family, I was like, hey, I have to go. I have an immediate mission to have to go to. I can't really talk about it, so I'm like, okay. Packed our stuff. I didn't know what to bring or how long I was supposed to be there, so I just grabbed a couple things and left. We went to the Armory, grabbed our weapons, headed out to the jet. We didn't know what to expect at all. We just knew that we had to be ready, fully geared up. Mobility Air Force utilizes Phoenix Ravens and Contingency Response Teams to counter threats to aircraft by performing close-in security and flight deck denial to onboard threats, as well as completing risk assessments and advising air crew members on force protection measures regarding high threat areas. With our current equipment, Raven teams are equipped to detect, deter, and counter threats relying solely on human performance. This becomes our biggest challenge in safeguarding our assets to include but not limited to fatigue, vision, and overall mental and physical health. These limitations create unacceptable margin of risk to our airmen and assets as there is no sufficient means of standoff, early threat warning, or assessment capabilities. As we look forward to our next fight, in order to outpace the adversary's technological advances and support agile combat employment concept of being lighter, leaner, and faster, it is time that we evaluate our capabilities. As we leave the comforts of established airfields and adjust to unfamiliar environments, employing technology that supports multi-capable airmen will allow us to stay proactive in ensuring mission success. To accomplish these concepts, we need a mobile wide area detection system that encompasses artificial intelligence, able to detect and recognize threats, providing real-time visual inputs, maps, and data feed in the air before landing on approach and on the ground. This intelligence can be shared to command and control centers and forward deployed tactical teams providing multi-capable airmen with valuable minutes as opposed to seconds to react to threats. This amount of time might seem insignificant. However, it can be the difference between life and death. The mobile sensor kit must be compatible with the Android team awareness kit, provide predictive and prescriptive analytics to help decrease cognitive load on our security professionals, reducing our margin of risk and returning our competitive edge. Protection of our critical assets is key as we continue to move into the future with our proactive and reactive schemes maneuver to meet our threat timelines. We must detect first in order to shoot first and keep mobility Air Force assets in the fight.