the message storage queue for relay transmission by a transmitter 250 receiver 260 receives programming instructions from a ground control station for example for dynamic reprioritization these instructions may be in the form of active messages carrying computer code to be executed in a dynamic reprioritization controller 290 of smart node 110 dynamic reprioritization controller 290 inspects the messages for relay that are stored in message storage queue 280 and specifies the order of transmission to a queue controller 270 by way of example dynamic reprioritization for the militarily relevant use of sensor fusion is considered in accordance with fig3 a plurality of s ground based optical sensors 300 1 300 2 300 s measure the direction cosines of targets as they appear in an area of sky above them the sensors are arranged in a circle and for this example s 8 each sensor is able to tie its specific observation to a particular target and send this observation in message to a smart node for reprioritization in this example the smart node might be located at a geostationary satellite that relays the observation messages to a weapons control processing center in this example the target locations are estimated and a directed energy de weapon is issued against them the probability that the de weapon will be effective on any particular firing is a strong function of the merit of the individual target location estimate the greater the volume of uncertainty within which the target is to be found the greater the number of weapon commitments or equivalently de firings.