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Book Synopsis Transforming Airborne Command and Control and Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance by : Kouji P. Gillis
Download or read book Transforming Airborne Command and Control and Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance written by Kouji P. Gillis and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "For over a decade, the USAF has been looking for follow-on platforms to replace and transform the current airborne Command and Control, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (C2ISR) force. The USAF has studied the feasibility of using space-based radar (SBR) platforms as well as large manned aircraft like the E-10A to meet USAF C2 and ISR operational requirements. Neither of these platforms met operational requirements and has forced the USAF to continue relying on aging AWACS and JSTARS platforms for airborne C2ISR. The current airborne C2ISR force was designed to operate in the Cold War environment and should be replaced with newer technology to negate new information-age threats. However, does the technology exist today? Can Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA) or unmanned airships replace the AWACS and JSTARS? If so, what are the costs and benefits of transforming airborne C2ISR, and should the USAF transform airborne C2ISR now?"--Abstract.
Book Synopsis Beyond the Iron Triad by : Matt Hurley
Download or read book Beyond the Iron Triad written by Matt Hurley and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Command and control (C2) and intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) have always been fundamental to warfare. But the probable character of future operations has changed since the days when theater commanders worried about linear challenges like repulsing a continent-wide advance by 200 enemy divisions supported by hundreds of enemy aircraft at any given time. Modern conflict will likely involve far more dynamic, rapidly evolving problem sets. In this study, retired Air Force intelligence officer Matt Hurley addresses the past, present, and future of the Iron Triad, and what the future holds for airborne C2ISR. Any meaningful change in how the US military prosecutes a mission as central as this requires fundamental transformation in thinking, beginning with how planners conceive of future systems and how operators employ them when the results matter most.
Book Synopsis Airborne Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance by : United States Army Command and General S
Download or read book Airborne Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance written by United States Army Command and General S and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-03-15 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph examines the utility of implementing the mission command philosophy in airborne intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) operations. This study begins by examining Helmuth Von Moltke's views on the exercise of disciplined initiative in battle. Brian Lawson's design problem model provides a framework for analyzing constraints as a source of friction. Confederate calvaryman J.E.B. Stuart's Gettysburg saga provides a vehicle for mission command analysis, given similiarities between Civil War cavarly reconnaissance and modern airborne ISR operations. This study also focuses on the pursuit of airborne reconnaissance support by World War I artillerymen, whose views on organic control echo current dialogue on UAS employment. This monograph concludes by assessing the potential impact of enhanced implementation of the mission command philosophy on theater airborne ISR effectiveness.
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Book Synopsis Transforming Air Force ISR for the Long War and Beyond by : Jr Major Grunwald, USAF Michael
Download or read book Transforming Air Force ISR for the Long War and Beyond written by Jr Major Grunwald, USAF Michael and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2012-09-24 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Air Force, and more specifically the joint/combined force air component commander (J/CFACC), firmly believes airpower must operate under the twin tenets of centralized control and decentralized execution to be effective. The Cold War ushered in an era of centralized execution of airborne strategic intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) operations that bled into theater-level ISR execution in the 1990s and through Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom. This execution construct, coupled with ISR reachback exploitation, has created a perception that theater-level ISR operations are not responsive to tactical situations. Physical distances between the operational environment, combined air operations center (CAOC), and exploitation units have fostered distrust and removed critical insight and ISR expertise from tactical level planning and execution. To maintain ISR relevancy at the tactical level, the J/CFACC must change its tactical ISR organization and execution methodology. This paper draws on well-established close air support (CAS) doctrine and organizational models to build new ISR organizational and execution constructs to bridge the gap between theater-level ISR assets and tactical operations. These models bind ISR asset, exploiter, CAOC, and the supported unit through face-to-face interactions and standardized processes that apply across any theater of operations or combatant command.
Book Synopsis C4ISR for Future Naval Strike Groups by : National Research Council
Download or read book C4ISR for Future Naval Strike Groups written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2006-05-26 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Navy has put forth a new construct for its strike forces that enables more effective forward deterrence and rapid response. A key aspect of this construct is the need for flexible, adaptive command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (C4ISR) systems. To assist development of this capability, the Navy asked the NRC to examine C4ISR for carrier, expeditionary, and strike and missile defense strike groups, and for expeditionary strike forces. This report provides an assessment of C4ISR capabilities for each type of strike group; recommendations for C4ISR architecture for use in major combat operations; promising technology trends; and an examination of organizational improvements that can enable the recommended architecture.
Book Synopsis Methodology for Improving the Planning, Execution, and Assessment of Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Operations by : Sherrill Lee Lingel
Download or read book Methodology for Improving the Planning, Execution, and Assessment of Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Operations written by Sherrill Lee Lingel and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lingel et al. present alternative methods to (1) approach U.S. Air Force intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) tasking and assessment processes and (2) outline a methodology for assessing the benefits and costs of different ISR employment strategies. The U.S. Air Force greatly increased the number of operational surveillance and reconnaissance sensors and its ability to process data from these sensors in support of operations across a wide range of conflicts. However, along with the increased number of sensors comes an increase in the complexity of the tasking of these assets needed to prosecute either planned for or emergent battlefield targets. As part of the authors' research, they developed new assessment techniques and operational strategies to improve the command and control process for assigning ISR assets in dynamic environments. The authors also suggest tools to assist commanders of ISR assets in their decisions regarding allocating and retasking ISR assets. The report focuses on traditional target sets against adversaries whose behavior is well understood.
Book Synopsis Effective and Efficient Use of US Air Force Airborne Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) and how to Meet Combatant Commander Requirements by : John M. Harrison
Download or read book Effective and Efficient Use of US Air Force Airborne Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) and how to Meet Combatant Commander Requirements written by John M. Harrison and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The effective use of airborne ISR has been debated for several years. Since Desert Storm, the majority of airborne ISR platforms have been dedicated to Central Command's (CENTCOM) theater of operation. While the other theaters have legitimate intelligence targets to be monitored and pursued, CENTCOM has been the priority. This paper examines how ISR has been used in different theaters, how ISR assets are allocated to the combatant commands, improvements made in how ISR platforms operate, and recommendations on how the platforms can be used more effectively. The Air Force must seek training opportunities with ground forces before Army and Marine units deploy to foster a basic understanding of how ISR platforms can support them, as well as ISR operators learning what information ground forces want. This needs to start within the United States military services, but the education piece needs to happen with coalition partners too. Establishing a level of trust and understanding before ground forces deploy will enable success for real-time ISR operations."--Abstract.
Book Synopsis A Strategies-to-tasks Framework for Planning and Executing Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) Operations by : Carl Rhodes
Download or read book A Strategies-to-tasks Framework for Planning and Executing Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) Operations written by Carl Rhodes and published by Rand Corporation. This book was released on 2007 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To assist in moving intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) planning and execution forward from a fixed target and deliberate planning focus to one centered on emerging targets, the authors propose enhancing the collection management process with a strategies-to-tasks and utility framework. By linking collection targets to operational tasks, objectives, and the top-level commander's guidance with relative utilities, planning for the daily intelligence collections and real-time retasking for ad hoc ISR targets could be enhanced. When current tools are modified to provide this information, planners will be able to link collection targets to top-level objectives for better decision making and optimization of low-density, high-demand collection assets. Similarly, on the Air Operations Center (AOC) floor, intelligence officers will be better able to deal with time-sensitive, emerging targets by rapidly comparing the value of collecting an ad hoc collection with the value of collecting opportunities already planned. To handle the ISR demands posed by the rapidly changing battlefield of the future, this new, more-capable framework may be needed for making the best use of intelligence capabilities against emerging collection opportunities. Future research will focus on quantifying the advantages of this approach in comparison with the current process.
Book Synopsis Assessing the Value of Intelligence Collected by U.S. Air Force Airborne Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Platforms by : Abbie Tingstad
Download or read book Assessing the Value of Intelligence Collected by U.S. Air Force Airborne Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Platforms written by Abbie Tingstad and published by . This book was released on 2021-10-31 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The changes in intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) and processing, exploitation, and dissemination (PED) capabilities over the past two decades have led to ever-increasing demand from warfighters. Commanders, planners, and operators across the U.S. Air Force (USAF) ISR enterprise face difficult decisions about how to best meet ISR needs at the strategic, operational, and tactical levels. Yet USAF currently lacks a consistent, quantitative, empirically grounded method of assessing the value that the service's airborne ISR provides-which is essential to good resourcing decisions. This report presents an approach to ISR assessments that seeks to articulate the costs and benefits of USAF airborne ISR in specific operational contexts. Though aspects of this may be applicable across different USAF ISR organizations, this work focused primarily on the Distributed Common Ground System and the operational theaters it does or could support. The assessment methodology is designed to be flexible enough to support ISR resourcing decisions at different echelons, yet consistent enough to foster feedback, standardize data collections, and make use of empirical analysis methodologies.
Book Synopsis Military Transformation by : Judy G. Chizek
Download or read book Military Transformation written by Judy G. Chizek and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Airborne Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance (ISR) Systems and Applications by :
Download or read book Airborne Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance (ISR) Systems and Applications written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Department of Defense Policies and Programs to Transform the Armed Forces to Meet the Challenges of the 21st Century by : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services
Download or read book Department of Defense Policies and Programs to Transform the Armed Forces to Meet the Challenges of the 21st Century written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Transforming Air Force Intelligence by : Paul L. Smith
Download or read book Transforming Air Force Intelligence written by Paul L. Smith and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "On December 2004, Congress passed the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act (Public Law 108-458). Commonly known as the Intelligence Reform Act, this legislation created the Director of National Intelligence to (a) be the chief intelligence advisor to the President, (b) lead the entire intelligence community (IC), and (c) oversee and direct the purchase of intelligence collection systems for all the IC. Touted as the most far-reaching IC reorganization since the National Security Act of 1947, the Intelligence Reform Act resolved to improve (fix) unity of effort by centralizing control of budgets and collection priorities of national-level intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) agencies and assets. The rationale was simple. Decentralized control of national intelligence agencies and assets, and their corresponding collection, analysis and reporting stovepipe bureaucracies were cited as a major finding by the 9/11 Commission."--Abstract from web site.
Book Synopsis Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) and Space: A Framework to Help Understand the Issues by :
Download or read book Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) and Space: A Framework to Help Understand the Issues written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a smaller Air Force transitions to an Aerospace Force to start the new millennium, space offers a vantage point where no point on Earth is denied to a sensor system. Joint Vision 2010 describes leveraging technological opportunities to achieve information superiority to enable full spectrum dominance. A key component of information superiority is airborne command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (C4ISR) assets. In a time of budget constraints, the Air Force must make some hard decisions regarding tradeoffs between current and future capabilities. This thesis offers a C4ISR framework to help identify categories that may bring to light some of the important issues associated with moving airborne capabilities to space. The framework is used to categorize current and future capabilities of airborne and space assets, and to compare and contrast C4ISR operations in these two environments. The seven categories in the C4ISR framework are: command and control, training, communications, surveillance, electronic intelligence, mission flexibility/versatility, and global presence. By highlighting the complexity of moving AWACS capabilities to space the paper also facilitates a better understanding of the air battle manager and space and missile operations career fields. Although the potential of space-based C4ISR systems is enormous, space-based assets will complement rather than replace air- and surface-based assets to form an integrated system with built-in redundancies. Due to technological and funding issues, not every AWACS capability can be moved to space by the year 2025. In particular, the space community does not currently have an air battle manager core competency nor do they intend to develop this in the future.
Book Synopsis Command and Control, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (C2ISR) Low Density/High Demand (LD/HD) Asset Strategy Study by :
Download or read book Command and Control, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (C2ISR) Low Density/High Demand (LD/HD) Asset Strategy Study written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LD/HD assets do not currently align within the Aerospace Expeditionary Forces (AEF), a cornerstone of the Air Force's new concept of employment called Expeditionary Aerospace Forces (EAF). OPSTEMPO and PERSTEMPO on LD/HD have increased along with increased Air Force (AF) commitments. Often times, training assets are pressed into operational service, further limiting the number of trained crew members, and sometimes negatively impacting crew morale and retention. The AF examined ways to orchestrate LD/HD with EAF. This analysis addresses the 14 July 1999 Board of Director's (BOD) question: "Should the AF pursue procuring more High Demand / Low Density (HD/LD) assets, and are there other ways (structural, doctrinal, organizational, etc...) the AF can address the OPSTEMPO problems of its crews and assets while meeting the demands of the joint team?" In early 1999, in response to issues highlighted at the AFSAA and AF/XOP EAF Transition Workshop, AFSAA developed an objective, quantitative problem statement of LD/HD and EAF alignment. The EAF Transition Workshop recommended follow-on study and AF/DXOC designated AFSAA as the analytic lead. The BOD and AF/CV concern over this issue resulted in AFSAA being tasked to provide analysis support to ACC' 5 Aerospace Command and Control and Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Center (AC2ISRC). This led to the development of an analytical model to examine and rank AC2ISRC coordinated alternatives to improve OPSTEMPO for LD/HD C2ISR assets. AFSAA developed a value hierarchy and model to evaluate CINC requirements and AF's capability to manage LD/HD. Results from this effort were used in CORONA FALL 99 and received 4-star endorsement.
Download or read book 5th Generation Air C2 and Isr written by and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Executive Summary In future conflict, we may end up having to fight a peer adversary. In such a fight, we will not have a decisive technology advantage. Furthermore, it is likely that we will be physically outnumbered. In that fight, the way we orchestrate our force will be vital in gaining us the advantage and ultimately to win the conflict. Air Command and Control (Air C2) is all about orchestrating our Air Forces. Through exercising Air C2, we strive for decision superiority. A major stepping stone towards achieving decision superiority is achieving information superiority. Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) aims at just that. The future operation environment in which we fight a peer adversary has the potential to become very complex and highly dynamic. In that environment, we need to be able to adjust our actions constantly to cope with any situation that may develop and react in real-time to emerging threats and opportunities. We need to be agile; ready to resort to high degree of dynamic (re-)tasking to out-pace and out-manoeuvre the adversary. This puts extraordinary strain on the real-time link between Air C2 and ISR to achieve and maintain decision superiority. Both the RAAF and the RNLAF will significantly transform during the next decade, as captured in Plan Jericho and CLSK 3.0. One of the driving factors for the transformation is the introduction of the F-35 Lightning II. To employ it effectively and efficiently, RAAF and RNLAF will have to look critically at how we operate, and probably apply new concepts. Both Forces have a vested interest in understanding how current and planned Air C2 and ISR systems and concepts support exploiting the RAAF and RNLAF combat potential to the max. They furthermore share the interest in evolving Air C2 and ISR to suit F-35 employment in a future, 5th Generation Air Force to achieve the required agility to operations at the tactical, operational and strategic level. This paper explores these new concepts for Air C2 and ISR related to F-35 employment. The paper provides tangible recommendations about improving Air C2 and ISR systems, their integration, collaboration and Information & Communication Technology (ICT) at the tactical level, including the possible application of a combat cloud, and towards F-35 employment and follow-on development. It furthermore explores the possibility for distribution of control towards the tactical edge, concluding that RAAF and RNLAF should further pursue this concept. The paper also looks at command and ISR at the operational level and strategic employment of F-35 and draws two conclusions: first, that new concepts for Air C2 and ISR related to F-35 employment deserve increased attention from RAAF and RNLAF, and second, that successfully employing F-35 requires strong(er) influence of RAAF and RNLAF at the operational and strategic level. Overall, the paper recommends possible ways in which RAAF and RNLAF could cooperate to face the Air C2 and ISR challenges and opportunities that come with the transition to a 5th Generation Air Force. This could involve stimulation and facilitating international discussion on new concepts for Air C2 and ISR. The paper provides a framework for 5th Generation Air C2 and ISR, which illustrates the importance of coherence among Air C2, ISR, collaboration and ICT when formulating requirements for system improvements, tied to enhancing Air C2 - ISR integration at the tactical level. It can also be used as a framework to further discuss the new concepts for Air C2 and ISR related to F-35 employment. Furthermore, the framework supports a broader view of these concepts, including the required professional mastery, collaboration and ICT. Hence, it could also be used as a point of departure for further Air C2 and ISR analysis and concept development to support the transformation towards a 5th Generation Air Force.
Download or read book Signal written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 872 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
