Automated ISR Symposium

The United States Government’s ISR community (Intelligence Community, Law Enforcement Agencies and Military Services) face a new challenge in media exploitation: technological advancements in collection platforms’ capacity now exceed ISR community intelligence collection requirements. The sheer volume of information that can now be collected and ingested from UAVs, full motion video, surveillance video, intercepting electronic communications, cell phones, texts, emails, FMV and open source information is so enormous, that only select segments of actual intelligence can be effectively analyzed and disseminated.

The ISR community’s challenge in the fiscally constrained budget environment of the 21^st century is to become increasingly adept at employing automated intelligence capabilities and develop new ISR tools that can collect, analyze, and disseminate in real time, the ever increasing volume of information in the most cost-effective manner.

This event will discuss:

• The growing demand within the USG’s ISR community for automating intelligence analysis tools.
• Development and deployment of future fleets of unmanned systems.
• Challenges that arise from a significant increase in data and bandwidth for real time information.
• Right-sizing of civilian/military intelligence workforce to the new budget environment.
• Re-examining analysis requirements which are overwhelming analysts and systems.
• Interoperability challenges from legacy ISR systems within organizations and across the ISR community.
• Changing capabilities and requirements of current data analysis and metadata tools.
• Opportunities for Industry Partnerships within intelligence agencies to accelerate development and fielding of initiatives focused on the automation and optimization of media exploitation.