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…e Enables DCGS-A to task, process, post, and use data from Army, Joint, and National sensors. e@ Provides a metadata catalog that defines how you describe data. The metadata allows DCGS-A to expose the…

Appendix C C-4 JP 3-60 (1) Stage 1, objectives, effects, and guidance, requires JFC and component commanders to collaborate about the use of joint air assets to establish guidance for the duration of that…

…This bias involves the use, often unwitting, of arbitrary values in decisionmaking, including the use of conclusions developed by others. Cognitive Bias 2-43. The intelligence analyst evaluates information from a variety of sources. The degree…

vi COMAFFOR / JFACC / CFACC A note on terminology One of the cornerstones of Air Force doctrine is “the US Air Force prefers—and in fact, plans and trains—to employ through a commander, Air Force forces…

FOREWORD Time and time again in the last several decades, air and space power has proven among the most powerful of weapons in the nation’s military arsenal, deciding some conflicts outright and enabling us to…

…In some contingencies (such as PKO), the term information collection is used rather than the term intelligence because of the operation’s sensitivity. (1) HUMINT often may provide the most useful source of information and is…

…Thus, CAOC targeteers should coordinate with their combatant command’s J-2 to ensure a standardized BE# naming convention is used. Standard DPI numbering is also important, and the joint targeting committee is finalizing the adoption…

Chapter 4 Diagnostic Analytic Techniques This chapter discusses the diagnostic analytic techniques routinely used by intelligence analysts. It discusses in detail the common techniques of deception detection, key assumptions check, quality of information check, indicators, and…

…Responsibility for the research lies primarily, but not solely, with the ISRD, which uses federated aid and reachback (see Chapter Five and Appendix B) to ensure that the CAOC obtains, analyzes, and disseminates the information it…

…For example, functionally oriented components are useful when the scope of operations is large and the JFC’s attention must be divided between major operations or phases of operations that are functionally dominated. Functional component commands…

…This should be done using the best guidance available at the time. A good specific objective must be understandable, require action, be attainable, allow some room to reach the solution, and provide criteria for use in…

…Joint and national agencies may be particularly useful in helping make political and economic types of assessment. Ideally, the same units that provide support for target development should also assist with the post-attack assessment of…

…However, deliberate targeting can be used against mobile targets, especially when the target is in a defensive posture and may be in positions for long periods of time. On-call missions can be used against fixed…

…Various elements of the JFC’s staff use assessment results to adjust both current operations and future planning. c. During conflict, the US will use all instruments of its national power against the full spectrum of…

…Most participants find the process of developing such scenarios as useful as any finished product that attempts to capture the results of the exercise. Analysts and decisionmakers can benefit from this technique in several ways: …

18 August 2014 ATP 2-33.4 B-1 Appendix B Indicators in Decisive Action This appendix provides examples of indicators used in decisive action. While not an all-inclusive list of indicators, this appendix assists…