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Capability Planning and Analysis to Optimize Air Force Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Investments (2012) / Chapter Skim
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... 2"Service Core Functions define the Air Force's key capabilities and contributions as a service. Service Core Functions correspond to the specific primary functions of the service as described in DoD Directive 5100.01." SOURCE: USAF.
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... , followed in 2007 with the creation of the Air Force ISR Agency.5 In 2009, the Air Force developed and imple mented the ISR Flight Plan process to focus Air Force needs on future ISR capabili ties.6 The Air Force subsequently renamed this approach the Capability Planning and Analysis (CP&A) process "to align with [the]
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... Chapter 1 provides a broad context of historical factors related to the development of ISR capabilities and considers potential scenarios involving the use of these capabilities. Chapter 2 addresses Task 1 of the TOR by reviewing the current approach to the Air Force corporate planning and programming processes for ISR.
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... Finding 2-2. The Air Force ISR planning process lacks adequate process defini tion and formal interaction between the Space Superiority, Cyberspace Superi ority, and GIISR CFLIs.
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... con struct uses a process that links requirements analysis with force development and portfolio management in a way that helps synchronize planning and execution. Keys to this linkage are the ISCA analytical underpinnings and the methodology that enables sensor-platform aggregations.
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... The BlueSim tool, combined with RadiantBlue's methodology, has been used to successfully support trade-space studies of vari ous ISR and PED architectures. RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE COMMITTEE FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE AIR FORCE ISR CAPABILITY PLANNING AND ANALYSIS PROCESS Recommendation 4-1.
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... (AFISRA) FIGURE S-1 A high-level diagram showing the major elements of the committee's proposed Air Force intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance Capability Planning and Analysis process.
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... For example, the Air Force maintains its own ISR plan and metrics separate from DoD's ISR Integration Roadmap and the other service roadmaps, and the other services have developed several roadmaps outlining ISR priorities and capability gaps." SOURCE: GAO.
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  • current approach
  • integration division
  • space superiority
  • military services

  • brian johnson
  • proposed air
  • managing isr
  • integrated isr
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  • own isr
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  • force intelligence
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