Intelligence Supporting Operations Flashcards
What’re the 5 phases of the globally integrated ISR operation cycle, also called (PCPAD)?
Planning & Direction Collection Processing and Exploitation Analysis & Production Dissemination & Integration
What drives the planning and employment of globally integrated ISR operations?
Intelligence requirements
What is the authority to establish, prioritize, and validate theater collection requirements, establish sensor tasking guidance, and develop theater wide collection policies?
CMA- Collection Management Authority
What is CRM(Collection requirements management)?
Development and control of requirements that normally result in direct tasking of assets over which the collection manager has authority
What are CCIRs?
Information requirements identified by the commander as being critical to facilitating timely decision making
Provides the framework for prioritization of all globally integrated ISR operations
PIRs
PIRs
Intelligence requirements deemed most important to mission accomplishment.
What is collection management?
Converting validated intelligence requirements into collection requirements. Occurs at all levels of intelligence.
What does processing and exploitation consist of?
The conversion of collected information into forms suitable to the analysis and production of intelligence.
The result of ____ is information that receives tier 1 analysis for time critical production but has not been subjected to full analytical assessment.
Processing an exploitation
What is the primary mission of most intelligence units and is accomplished in response to expressed and anticipated user requirements?
Analysis and production
The delivery of intelligence to users in a suitable form and the application of the intelligence to appropriate missions, tasks, and functions
Dissemination and integration
_____ are general statements of intelligence needs and define requirements deemed most important to mission accomplishment.
PIRs
Under analysis and production, which action involves receiving, collating and entering information from single or multiple sources into databases?
Integration
This A/C provides an accurate, real time picture of the battlespace to the AOC.
E-3 Sentry(AWACS)
Describe the E-8C JSTARS
Airborne battle management, C2, ISR platform. Primary MSN is to provide GMTI
What does the U-2 Dragon Lady provide?
Continuous day/night, all weather surveillance & recon through all phases of conflict. Can download data in near time to anywhere in the world.
What does the RC-135 River Joint provide?
The crew is able to collect, process, exploit, and disseminate near real time SIGINT(ELINT & COMINT) to satisfy tactical req’s.
This A/C flies JCS-directed MSNs to collect optical & electronic data on ballistic targets. Critical to theatre missile defense concepts
RC-135S Cobra Ball
What A/C provides strategic electronic recon info to the President, SecDef, DoD, &theatre CC’s.
RC-135U Combat Sent. Only 2 in AF inventory
UAS-Close Range
Operational range will be approx 50km