Intelligence Requirement Coordination, Reconciliation, and Development Services (RECORDS)

Despite the increased availability of information through systems such as DCGS-A, CPOF, and efforts such as P-OIC, intelligence organizations are still plagued by inefficiencies in TCPED and analysis activitiessuch as collection gaps, collection overlaps, and missed collection opportunities. These inefficiencies result in a trend towards indiscriminately collecting any and all available information, despite guidance in the form of CCIRs. This causes information overload, an increased need for manpower for PED tasks, poor synchronization of intelligence with operations, and, ultimately, decreased mission effectiveness. These inefficiencies could be addressed through better management of intelligence requirements. Therefore, we propose to design and demonstrate Intelligence Requirement Coordination, Reconciliation, and Development Services (RECORDS). Three main objectives characterize our approach. First, RECORDS provides an evolvable, rich ontology to capture both the Commander's Intent and potential COAs during the MDMP process, including the primary dimensions of the current set of missions, decision points, and related IRs. Second, RECORDS uses intuitive, easy-to-use probabilistic models to capture the dependencies between COA decision points and successful collection. Third, we will design RECORDS to reflect current, doctrinal, and optimal IR management workflows, integrating with existing and emerging capabilities in the military intelligence enterprise.