Information Operations IO Intelligence, Surveillance

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Information Operations (IO) Intelligence,
Surveillance Reconnaissance (ISR)

• Chair Gary Waag (2002/2003)
• Vice Chair Rick Sharp (2002)
• Andreas Tolk (2003)

Total attendance Peak
65 Number of Papers presented 5 Formal
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IO-ISR Goals for this Workshop

• IO topics
• Computer network attack and defense,
• Modeling of IO in exercise and training,
• Threats to the Internet and communications
  infrastructures
• Alternatives to classic force-on-force combat.
• ISR topics
• representation of the different intelligence
  disciplines (e.g, SIGINT, IMINT, HUMINT, etc.)
• the associated Tasking, Processing Exploitation
  and Dissemination (TPED) systems and processes
  associated with the delivery of intelligence
  products to the warfighter.

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Key Points

• There is continued interest in IO-ISR
• Progress being made in realistic portrayal of ISR
  in Training Exercise events
• Need to focus some energy on where there may be a
  need for Standards

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Key Point 1 There is continued interest in
IO-ISR

• Explanation
• Despite overall lower attendance at SIW, interest
  in IO-ISR continues to be high
• Forum continues to be an information exchange and
  opportunity to expose leading-edge initiatives,
  such as Infrastructure Protection (Papers 063
  112)
• Recommendation
• Continue the IO-ISR Forum
• Highlight in Call for Papers that this is a home
  for topics such as Homeland Defense,
  Infrastructure Protection, NCW, EBO, etc.

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Key Point 2 Progress being made in realistic
portrayal of ISR in Training Exercise events

• Explanation
• IEWTPT papers (008 009) show advances in
  Enhancing Attributes and Filtering of Game Space
  to
• Provide more realistic Intel Reports to training
  audience in a more timely fashion
• Recommendation IEWTPT could help lead to
  development of procedural standards defining
  HOW to best provide realistic ISR portrayal (as
  opposed to mechanical standards that we
  typically focus on)

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Key Point 3 Need to focus some energy on where
there may be a need for IO-ISR Standards

• Explanation
• Several years running, IO-ISR provides a
  well-attended forum for visibility of efforts
• But little to no discussion yet on topic areas
  needing standards let alone effort in that
  regard.
• Recommendation
• Put out call for volunteers to participate in
  e-mail discussions regarding topic areas for
  standards
• Utilize IO-ISR reflector (which has had little
  other use to date)