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
UAS- Short Range
Flight duration of 8-10hrs. Designed to penetrate enemy airspace out to 200km w/ data link
UAS-Endurance
24hr min coverage and capable of multiple MSNs simultaneously
The UAS’ has the primary MSN of interdiction & armed recon & can employ 2x Hellfires
RQ-1/MQ-1 Predator
What is the MSN of the MQ-9 Reaper?
Persistent hunter-killer against emerging tgts to provide real time data to CC’s & intel specialists
Which UAS has proven itself in combat support of US forces in Iraq and Afghan, and is now used by all of the military services?
RQ-11B Raven
This back-packable system which features 2 air vehicles, a GCS, remote video terminal, transit cases, and support equipment.
RQ-11B Raven
Defense Support Program(DSP) satellites are______.
Key early warning systems that detect missile launches, space launches, & nuclear detonations
What Is PAVE PAWS(phased-array warning system)?
AF radar system for missile warning & space surveillance
October 2003, the Office of the Secretary of Defense mandated that each service develop _______.
A DCGS to provide ISR & targeting data
Army’s primary system for ISR tasking, posting, processing, and using info about threat, weather, & terrain at the JTF level & below.
DCGS-A
The DCGS-AF provides______.
PED for most airborne IMINT & SIGINT collection
____ is in Langley AFB, Virginia. Regional focus includes the Middle East & HOA.
DGS-1
_____ in Beale AFB, CA. Regional focus includes Central & S. America.
DGS-2
______ in Osan AFB, ROK. Regional focus is North Korea.
DGS-3
_____ in Ramstein AB, Germany. Regional focus includes Europe & Africa.
DGS-4
______Hickam AFB, HI. Regional focus is Pacific region and Eastern Asia
DGS-5
What teams make up the Combat Plans Division?
Targeting Effects
Master Air Attack Plan (MAAP)
ATO Production
C2 Plans
What teams make up Combat Ops Division?
Offensive Ops
Defensive Ops
SIDO
Interface Control
What does the Strategy Division concentrate on?
Long range and near term planning of air, space, cyberspace, and IO to achieve objectives
This division is responsible for near-term air and space operations planning within 48 hours prior to ATO execution
Combat Plans Division
What is the Combat Operations Divisions responsibility?
Execute the current ATO
Monitor/support DT
Track emerging tgts
This division is the AOCs primary producer of actionable Intelligence.
ACF Team
What team produces the RSTA annex?
ISR Ops Team
_____ serves as 24 AFs C2 center to provide robust full-spectrum and integrated cyberspace Ops capabilities
624th Operations Center
What does the 608 AOC do?
Plans, directs, & assesses kinetic and non-kinetic capabilities for USSTRATCOM
This AOC is a functional AOC that focuses on global and theater space operations.
614 AOC
What does the 618 AOC do?
Tanker Airlift Control Center(TACC) & AMCs arm for providing global reach
___AOC is responsible for the C2 of AFSOC air forces & SOF mobilization
623
A Key product of the cyber tasking cycle that is an executable plan for Air Force cyberspace forces is called______
The AF Cyber Tasking Order(CTO)
What serves as a JFACCs operations command center?
AOC
What are the most common divisions found in an AOC?
Strategy Combat Plans Combat Ops ISRD AMD
The CISR is the_______.
JFACCs lead for issues related to the C2 of ISR capabilities.