WASHINGTON (NNS) -- The fusion of intelligence and operations is an important advance that has taken shape during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the chief of naval operations (CNO) told the Defense Writers Group March 23.
CNO Adm. Gary Roughead said the ability for intelligence to be in the hands of operators and decision-makers in almost real time has been extraordinary.
He said advances during the wars have brought together the intelligence, and command and control organizations at all levels.
"I really do think that we have the potential ... to change how we fuse intelligence and operations," Roughead said.
CNO pointed to communications as an example of this melding, noting to the audience of defense journalists that their access to information, and the ways they disseminate it have changed markedly.
"We're seeing the same thing," he said. "How do you fold that into structures and processes is the next step."
Roughead said the fusion is more than simply putting intelligence people and operations specialists in the same room. The fusion allows intelligence professionals to see what types of information are most helpful to operations personnel, while operations personnel have a closer knowledge of what is possible and what questions to ask their intelligence brethren.
He said it goes beyond combat information centers or brigade operations offices. Roughead said he merged his service's intelligence and command and control career fields. He also created the 10th Fleet – a global fleet that has cyberspace at its battleground.
From www.navy.mil
Oh please!
ReplyDeleteI sent my intel officer off to Af and he reported back that he was prepping 9 intel briefs a day. You know what I mean? There's the TS above/code word/Secret NOFORN/SECRET RELNATO/ confidential code word and so on and so forth.
Intel is pathetic. Reeks of 1941 and never ever got better.
4 stars never ever seem to have any problem with intel. Gee, I wonder why that is?