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Delivering insights and data from the tactical edge to the data lake.
While sensor systems can help with automation and persistence in intelligence gathering, the role of humans in sourcing battlefield information can be just as important in providing data points for a common intelligence picture.
Providing dismounted and mobile troops with the ability to readily report intelligence information to a fully synchronised common operational picture can help share situational awareness to all users at all echelons of command.
SitaWare Edge and SitaWare Frontline support the dismounted and mounted commanders respectively in achieving this task with an intuitive user interface. Identifying enemy positions and forces through simple touchscreen reporting creates objects for display across the userbase, as the situational picture is updated for all users. Commanders can also create and share plans easily, detailing how they will address their tactical position to gain an advantage, and support broader strategic commander’s intentions.
The ability to transfer data around the SitaWare ecosystem is also facilitated by the support of a variety of information exchange gateways and security gateways – allowing data to flow to appropriate users around a coalition, from a variety of sources and systems, and communications processes. SitaWare Edge and SitaWare Frontline are also supported by the SitaWare Tactical Communication transmission protocols, which ensure very high levels of redundancy when operating in denied, disrupted, intermittent, and limited communications environments.
Pooling the data created by dismounted assets into an intelligence data lake can help operations planners and intelligence analysts simplify their workflows, deploy assets for intelligence gathering more efficiently, and maximise the potential insights that can be gained through the data points. SitaWare Insight helps to deliver this capability, working to support SitaWare Headquarters users enhance their situational awareness through intelligence process management and analysis.
Additionally, SitaWare Insight supports the leveraging of artificial intelligence to support these tasks. This means that the value of all these intelligence assets can be fully realised – both through their addition to the data lake, and their retrieval.
What are some of the other ways you can best leverage your tactical units for intelligence gathering and exploitation?
Understand the terrain
Features within the SitaWare suite help the headquarters and tactical commanders understand the geography of the battlefield around them. Tools such as line-of-sight show the dead zones around a location or the limits of a sensor or effector, helping to demonstrate the limitations of a particular position. Operations in the urban domain are also being improved in the SitaWare suite, with 3D tiling being supported to help maximise intelligence related to buildings and their potential challenges to the tactical commander.
Understand their readiness
For the chief of staff, operational staff, and intelligence staff, understanding readiness through the holdings and capabilities of a deployed tactical unit will help with the creation of an intelligence collection task. If you are considering using a dismounted unit for reconnaissance, do they have the right equipment, such as a laser designator or range finder? Are they equipped with an unmanned aerial vehicle or loitering munition that can help improve their ability to support a find-fix-finish mission?
Manage your information effectively
As intelligence data and products flow into the data lake, ensuring it is readily accessible for users in the intelligence branch is important. Bringing structure to data means that value is easily added, and it can be integrated into a common intelligence picture for circulation around the battlespace. This also allows for the identification and analysis of patterns of life, organisational and doctrinal analysis of an enemy force, and help with course-of-action planning.
Read more about dismounted technology in our ebook “10 things to consider when choosing your dismounted Battle Management System,” or discover “7 ways to gain the advantage with an integrated intelligence solution”.
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