Monday, October 22. 2007

An Abundance of Apertures and Fusion Centers - Coordinated Warfare Approach to Intelligence Analysis

Many of the speakers at the opening session of the GEOINT conference discussed the need for analysts from the many specialized branches of intelligence branches to sit side-by-side at forward-deployed locations in order to be able to determine the relationship between multiple sources of information whether that be geoint, sigint (signal intelligence0, or humint (human intelligence). These "fusion centers" allow data to be processed faster so that information reaches the battalion and company commanders. But even within geospatial intelligence, there needs to be a better understanding of the available data in hand.

Rich Haver, a career intelligence officer and VP of Intelligence Programs for Northrop Grumman said that, "We have an abundance of apertures…and an abundance of resources to get geospatial information," this in reference to multiple, remotely-sensed data acquisition platforms that must be integrated and interpreted before reaching field commanders.

Posted by Joe Francica in GEOINT 07 at 11:40 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0) |

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