Enabling Bottom-Up Intelligence Reporting

Abstract

If today's warfighters truly adopt the mantra "All soldiers and Marines are intelligence collectors," the reporting and dissemination of tactical information must improve. Unfortunately, potentially valuable information is hemorrhaging in the gap between collector and formal reporting. To compound this problem, much of the information that is documented becomes stovepiped within internal unit channels and is never posted to national intelligence databases accessible to tactical units and the rest of the Intelligence Community (IC). To close the gap between human knowledge and accessible intelligence products, bottom-up reporting at the lowest levels must be enabled by addressing basic shortfalls in Marine Corps and joint doctrine, tactics, training, and systems.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 20, 2008
Accession Number
ADA508925

Entities

People

  • Edward P. Amdahl

Organizations

  • Marine Corps University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Human Systems
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accumulators
  • Application Software
  • Battlefields
  • Biometric Security
  • Communities
  • Databases
  • Doctrine
  • Human Intelligence
  • Information Processing
  • Intelligence Collection
  • Intelligence Community
  • Intelligence Products
  • Load Monitoring
  • Marine Corps
  • Military Intelligence
  • United States
  • Word Processors

Readers

  • Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.
  • Maritime Combat Support and Expeditionary Logistics.
  • Strategic Security Studies