U.S. Special Operations Command seeks enhanced technologies TAMPA, Fla., May 31 (UPI) -- U.S. Special Operations Command personnel require new technologies for enhanced networking and communications, precision locating and targeting capabilities. The assessment and a call to industry to produce the technology was delivered to industry by officials, including commanders of its service components and the theater special operations commands, from across U.S. Special Operations Command this month at the annual Special Operations Forces Industry Conference in Florida. The U.S. Air Force said commanders acknowledged the capabilities delivered by industry over the past decade but said "looking to the future -- the drawdown in Afghanistan, budget constraints and a refocus on the Asia-Pacific region and other parts of the globe beyond the Middle East and Southwest Asia -- they said they will need more" tools for missions such as building partner capacity, irregular warfare and counter-terrorism. Topping the wish list are improved intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance assets and better processes for sifting through the huge data streams "to paint a more complete operational picture." "We will need to have an ability to continue to search large databases to identify enemies and information that helps us understand and gives us clues into what (violent extremist) networks are doing out there," U.S. Army Lt. Gen. Joseph L. Votel, the commander of Joint Special Operations Command, said. "We want every advantage before we lock horns with an adversary and that is knowing what they have available to them and then countering it with decisive action," said U.S. Navy Rear Adm. Sean A. Pybus, commander of Naval Special Warfare Command.