sensor operation it will perform in one embodiment the system can include specific air vehicles that perform the collection tasks additional versions of casa can provide for the collaboration of air vehicles to form an aggregate used to collect the prioritized collection requests the uavs and ground stations can share sensor position information that is both current and projected to support proactive optimization this combines the collaborative knowledge of multiple sensors and the positioning of the sensors in one embodiment the requesters send their tasking requests in the form of an airborne collection request message acrm to a uav or to a central site such as the air operations center aoc to be forwarded to a uav the uavs will collaborate with each other to swap acrm taskings to better fit tasking to the position and capability of each uav this capability to collaborate the execution of the tasking is a result of the uav 39 s forming an aggregate that networks the tasking from one uav to another uav the uavs share requests with each other of particular interest are requests made to a uav that it cannot collect due to range or time limitations by handing these requests to a uav that is in range of the requested target or a uav that has enough fuel to reach the requested target the request can be fulfilled without having to manually retask another uav with the same request multiple uav 39 s can execute a single task at the same time as an example if a request is made to image.