Intelligence Mission Data (IMD)

Abstract

IMD project supports the Department’s governance process for balancing IMD supply and demand and addressing how to modernize IMD generation. In order to support weapons systems with intelligence data, we need to improve the modeling, simulation and assessment process for weapon systems prior to material solutions to better understand investment needs for both platforms and intelligence data. IMD is all source intelligence derived data necessary to do the following for weapon systems: to identify and counter constantly improving threat weapons and radar systems; optimize sensor design and validate sensor functionality; and support system test, evaluation and deployment. Modern weapon systems are reliant upon increasingly voluminous and precise IMD to meet performance requirements. This demand signal for mission support data is increasing due to requirements for both analyst-evaluated, precise data and machine-processed data to be used by weapons and control systems with increasing autonomy. This increasing requirement is highlighting the need to have a big data/data autonomy environment to support advanced weapon systems. In order for the community to meet modern weapons system requirements, there needs to be a measured shift with balance and attention paid to legacy and new capability needs. There are unacceptable gaps, compounded by non-assessed program office needs and requirements that may not be obtainable; therefore, balancing supply and demand is urgently needed.

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Document Details

Document Type
R2 Budgetary Justification
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2019
Source ID
0307577D8Z_7_0400_PB_2019
Change Summary Explanation
Transfer $6M per year to O&M from RDT&E in order to continue implementation (people) and sustainment of tools for the Annual Priorities and Risk Management Framework process, provide funding to assist with Intelligence Mission Data (IMD) data flow (existing systems upgrades and maintenance), and support personnel in the Office of the Under Secretary of the Defense Intelligence (OUSD(I) to work Intelligence Support to Acquisition issues.
Service Agency Name
Office of the Secretary Of Defense

Entities

Organizations

  • Office of the Secretary of Defense

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Sensors
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Addressing
  • Application Programming Interface
  • Automation
  • Autonomy
  • Big Data
  • Communities
  • Contracts
  • Control Systems
  • Cost Analysis
  • Deployment
  • Environment
  • Product Prototyping
  • Production
  • Radar
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Weapon Systems

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Civilian Systems Systems Program Capability Development and Upgrade Support Activity Expense and Pay Management.
  • Geospatial Intelligence and Artificial Intelligence Analytics
  • Systems Analysis and Design

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