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Recent Experimentation News

Experiment looks to inform future joint force operations USJFCOM's Joint Concept Development and Experimentation Directorate recently completed an experiment to develop and assess processes and technical capabilities to improve the execution of joint future joint distributed operations. The experiment, running for almost two years and ending soon, brought a human element together with previous simulations conducted during the project. • Comment on this article at USJFCOMLive

Joint Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance (JISR)

Joint intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance comprise a joint mission to produce relevant information from all sources in a comprehensive, responsive, timely manner, so that military decision-makers may gain and maintain an information advantage over an adversary.

The JISR approach to the integration of these three warfighting elements will allow military planners and operators to share information and intelligence at the national, theater, and tactical levels of control. JISR emphasizes collaboration and quick exchanges between information gatherers and users. These new integrated capabilities will replace antiquated, single-intelligence-specific tactics, techniques, and procedures, resulting in the delivery of timely, relevant information to the decision-making process within all levels of joint operations.

JISR combines certain components of the three distinct missions it embodies.

• Intelligence—The product that results from the collection, processing, integration, analysis, evaluation, and interpretation of available information concerning foreign countries or areas

• Surveillance—The systematic or sustained observance of aerospace, surface, or sub-surface areas, places, persons, or things by visual, aural, electronic, photographic, or other means

• Reconnaissance—A mission to obtain, by transitory, visual observations, information about the activity and resources of an adversary, or to secure data concerning the meteorological, hydrographic, or geographic characteristics of a particular region.

The JISR concept grew out of the ISR Integrated Capstone Strategic Plan developed by the office of the U.S. assistant secretary of defense for command, control, and communications. JISR draws upon these seven components of that plan:

• Information infrastructure—The communications engine that enables the integration of the ISR community with other functional communities

• Operations/ISR integration—The incorporation of operational processes into ISR processes, from strategy development through acquisition and planning to execution and assessment

• Cross-domain integration—The as-similation of ISR requirements management, collection tasking, product delivery, and processing and exploitation, creating a ca-pability superior to that of spaceborne, airborne, maritime, or terrestrial systems

• ISR integration—The combination of all available ISR information and application methods to clarify target status and movement and enemy intent

• Interactive collection management—The provision of ISR information across all intelligence disciplines through battle-space and asset visualization, integration with real-time operations, and the sharing of operations and intelligence information

• Collectors and new capabilities—Investment strategies and migration plans to achieve a balanced, integrated, cost-effective force mix of spaceborne, airborne, maritime, and terrestrial sensors and platforms

• Multi-intelligence collaboration—The provision of near real-time collaborative tasking, processing, exploitation, and dissemination to national, theater, and tactical facilities that may be separated by extremely short or long distances.