Is There a Better Way to Do This?

When i was a bowing we were working on a new programme to deploy drones of robots effectively, for aerial ones and ground ones. We had a big control in a computer box, effected like a big maga lap top, to control all these drones. But the problem there was this big computer box costed millions of dollars. So while the concept made sense to keep things simple, how like one controller to control all l these drones? I thought to myself, there's probably a better way to do this. Is probably we can probly do a lot more with a lot less. And if we make it cost effective, we could probably give it to a lot o people in uniform...