Thunderstorm
Abstract
A follow-on to RRTO’s “Bluegrass” efforts, Thunderstorm has established an enduring multi-platform, multi-sensor Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) test bed using Southern Command's (SOUTHCOM) Joint Interagency Task Force South (JIATF-S) and Joint Task Force North (JTFN), along with DHS/Customs and Border Protection (CBP) locations as venues to conduct operational experiments with next generation detection, cueing, monitoring, tracking, and handoff capabilities against asymmetric target sets. In FY2011 the U.S. Southwest border was chosen as exercise venues because the operational environment is similar to deployed locations (i.e. Iraq and Afghanistan), and contains many of the same elements (i.e., non-state actors, ad hoc available to facilitate the development of government and industry capabilities to meet warfighter networks, and an adaptive enemy). The availability of CBP operational intelligence architectures coupled with a true interagency organizational construct made the Southwest border a realistic environment to vet capabilities prior to deployment to more stressing operational environments. In addition to providing relevant intelligence to support JIATF-South, and now JTFN operations, Thunderstorm also encourages greater cooperation with multi-agency/multinational partners, and identifies improvements in ISR concepts of operations that can be exported for other areas of responsibility to leverage. OSD has made Thunderstorm exercise data requirements.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Accomplishment
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2013
- Source ID
- 3105e304bd2abd302be3c1d5239dd89d
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