Intelligence Supportability Analysis for Decision Making
Abstract
Early identification of non-obvious issues is critical for defining requirements that affect cost, scheduling, performance, and risk in intelligence-gathering systems. Intelligence gathering is key to providing senior leadership with actionable (i.e., useful) information to support timely, informed decisions. Determining the cost, schedule, and requirements for an intelligence-gathering system often brings into play second- and third-order effects that can be difficult to identify before the fact and may be left out of the overall program budget. An example is a weapon with specific geospatial requirements and data that is not currently available either through commercial or government sources. The program will have to come up with funding for that data as well as pay for the cost of maintaining and updating the information. To ensure that all of a program's intelligence requirements are documented, acquisition and intelligence experts perform an intelligence supportability analysis (ISA). Current efforts in the field are focused on systematically incorporating the approach. Here, we describe an ISA evaluation as applied to Department of Defense (DoD) joint intelligence operations to show how best to identify issues early on that could negatively impact the system's ability to produce meaningful results.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- May 20, 2011
- Accession Number
- ADA544914
Entities
People
- Jesse Flanigan
Organizations
- Air Force Materiel Command