Nontraditional Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance: Making the Most of Airborne Assets

Abstract

This paper uses nontraditional intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (NTISR), now known in tactics, techniques, and procedures as operations reconnaissance, as a case study to increase combat capability across multiple weapon systems within the Air Force. NTISR demonstrate show one capability can flex to bridge gaps across several doctrinal functions and mission sets. It also provides an argument for the development of future technologies within extant fiscal constraints, revealing a requirement to shift the acquisition weight of effort away from traditional niche assets to those that support true multirole capabilities.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2015
Accession Number
AD1003673

Entities

People

  • Michael S. Cornelius

Organizations

  • Air Force Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • C4I
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Sensors
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Aircrafts
  • Communications Intelligence
  • Contingency Operations (Military)
  • Detection
  • Electronic Intelligence
  • Global Positioning Systems
  • Inertial Navigation
  • Inertial Navigation Systems
  • Intelligence Community (United States)
  • Military Aircraft
  • Navigation
  • Reconnaissance
  • Signals Intelligence
  • Surveillance
  • Synthetic Aperture Radar
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.
  • Maritime Combat Support and Expeditionary Logistics.
  • Systems Analysis and Design