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Integrating Intelligence Panelists bring together civilian, intelligence, military and warfighter perspectives. Focusing directly on the theme of the GEOINT 2011 Symposium, a panel on Tuesday morning brought together the perspectives of the civilian government, intelligence agency, military service and warfighter on the integration of intelligence. The focus of the panel was on taking a holistic approach to intelligence integration and determining how it can enable the defense, intelligence and homeland security communities to accomplish their missions. Following are brief accounts of the opening remarks of each of the four panelists. Kshemendra Paul, program manager, Information Sharing Environment (ISE), Office of the Director of National Intelligence. Paul explained that the purpose of the ISE is to improve the sharing of terrorism, homeland security, and WMD related information. It cuts across federal government, state and local, private and international organizations, including five core communities--law enforcement, homeland security, defense, foreign affairs and intelligence. “It’s a distributed and decentralized concept, driven off harmonized policies, common business practices, standards and architectures, with strong privacy and civil liberties protections,” he said. Paul pointed to three key ideas for responsible
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information sharing—standards, stewardship and safeguarding. “Standards are the foundation for interoperability,” he said. “When we look at collaboration and cost reduction, we need to work with standards. That’s not a new concept for this community, and we’re already working with the Open Geospatial Consortium on bringing some of the standards that are key to this community into our standards framework for the ISE. “Over time, the linkages in the data are more valuable than the data itself, and we need to make sure that we have effective policies and procedures to allow for stewardship over the lifecycle of data,” he added. Ed Mornston, director, Joint Intelligence Task Force-Combating Terrorism, Directorate of Analysis, Defense Intelligence Agency. “The perspective that I bring to this group is from having been involved in combating terrorism for the past few years,” Mornston said. “What I’ve found is that integration has been an essential element of all aspects of the counter terrorism fight—assessing the threat, communicating to decision makers and then taking action. “My observation is that in terms of a level of maturity, the counter-terrorism community is Continued On pAGE 10
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Beyond Full Motion Video BAE Systems looks ahead to the next level of ISR. Even as full motion video (FMV) takes center stage in both the world of ISR and the fight in Afghanistan, BAE Systems (Booth 529) is looking ahead to the next level in the evolution of battlefield information. “Everyone talks about FMV, but that is going to plateau,” Mike McKinney, director of ISR Analysis for BAE Systems, said in an interview Tuesday. “It’s not going to go away, but it’s going to be used differently. We’re right at the period of transition from FMV to ISR.” Not only is the company looking to new sensor technologies, such as wide area persistent surveillance, LiDAR, hyperspectral imaging, and ground moving target indicators (GMTI), but it also is busy laying the groundwork for the transition through extensive training and other programs. “We’re trying to get ahead of the whole process, so that when it does happen, and the customer says this is what we need, we’ve got trained analysts who are ready to go, and sensors that will be useable on day one in a way that will satisfy the customer,” he said. “We’ve been focusing primarily on FMV,” said McKinney, whose company has won over 90 percent of available competitive positions for FMV analysis and is the largest provider of analytical services to the intelligence community and Department of Defense, especially in deployed services. Continued On pAGE 4
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