Make JFCC-ISR Great Again
Abstract
The global allocation process for Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) assets is burdensome, antiquated and slow. It takes approximately one year for combatant commanders to determine what their intelligence requirements are, force providers to compile what ISR forces and assets can be offered to meet those requirements, and the administrative process to meld that information to present to the Secretary of Defense for approval. If world events change the Combatant Commanders requirements, the process is halted, corrections aremade, and the subsequent updates are incorporated into the annual planning process. With current and emergent threats to US interests globally, Combatant Commanders (CCDRs) rely heavily on space-based and air breathing platforms to better understand the battlefield and to develop plans to execute operations against our adversaries. This is due to space-based or air breathing ISR assets being able to provide near real time collection, focused on a combatant commanders intelligence requirement, with specialists trained to collect and process the data gathered from these platforms. This is doctrinally how the Department of Defense accomplishes the Joint Intelligence Preparation of the Operational Environment for Combatant Commanders.1 Demand for these assets always exceeds capacity. If new tools were developed to assist decision makers and the Global Force Management Allocation Plan (GFMAP) process was reengineered to better support the CCDRs priorities without negatively affecting the force provider, the collection asset, and supporting personnel in the process, it could become aninvaluable resource for the Intelligence Community (IC) instead of a burdensome, bureaucratic yearlong process.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Mar 24, 2020
- Accession Number
- AD1107493
Entities
People
- Derek A Rachel
Organizations
- Air War College