Collaborative Exploitation and Analysis: Helping the Joint Force Commander Achieve Information Superiority

Abstract

The National Imagery and Mapping Agency's (NIMA) new concept of Collaborative Exploitation and Analysis provides a virtual staff that can augment the Joint Force Commander (JFC) during mission analysis, planning, and execution. By 2010, Collaborative Exploitation and Analysis will help the JFC achieve information superiority provided the JFC understands what it can do for him and therefore knows to ask for this help. Current and emerging technology provides the capability to share all types of information in real time. Recent advancements in collaborative computing have achieved document sharing between physically remote sites, object oriented database sharing, as well as shared applications. Collaborative Exploitation and Analysis is the advancement of these technological capabilities to achieve a network of imagery and geospatial databases, and dynamic workgroups to resolve time critical issues. Information superiority is significant to the JFC because constant knowledge about the battlespace improves mission effectiveness. Information superiority supports operational art concepts. Requirements for achieving information superiority are battlespace awareness, effective employment of forces, and a communications grid (network) that ensures uninterrupted uncorrupted service. Since October 1996, NIMA has been striving to move the imagery and geospatial communities closer together through its leadership of the United States Imagery and Geospatial Information System (USIGS) . In this role, the agency is developing an end to end architecture to provide an environment that ensures the information edge. Collaborative Exploitation and Analysis is integral to evolving the current, static environment to one that allows the JFC access to imagery, geospatial information, and analytical expertise.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 13, 1998
Accession Number
ADA348445

Entities

People

  • James Kren

Organizations

  • Naval War College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy
  • C4I
  • Engineered Resilient Systems
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Classification
  • Command And Control
  • Command And Control Systems
  • Contingency Operations (Military)
  • Department Of Defense
  • Information Systems
  • Military Operations
  • National Security
  • Security
  • Signals Intelligence
  • Task Forces
  • United States
  • Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
  • Video Teleconferencing
  • War Colleges
  • Warfare

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Human-Computer Interaction (HCI).
  • Irregular Warfare and Special Operations Cyberspace Operations against Adversarial Threats.
  • Team-Based Human-Centered Cognitive Task Decision Making and Information Performance.