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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.
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