ISR: The Importance of Knowing Everything About Your Enemy

Military consultants insist that C4ISR (command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance) lifts the fog in the chaos of the battlespace.

C4ISR systems are becoming increasingly important for mission success.

Fighting blindly is how past generations of?military personnel were forced to do their jobs. Battlefield events were orchestrated with couriers, signals and radios. But now via C4ISR, the U.S. and NATO can combine enterprise-level IT and big data with the traditional command post.

By deploying C4ISR, the opaque conflicts of today are decided by who monopolizes the data as opposed to just weapon capacity as was the case in past generations of military missions.??The endgame for C4ISR: If you know everything about your enemy and the terrain, you win.

When it comes to supporting military operations, history has shown that effective communication and information-sharing processes are just as important as ordnance, strategy and logistics.?

While information creation, communication, analysis, and exploitation have always played a key role in military strategy and operations, recent rapid progress in information and communication technologies has dramatically enhanced the strategic role of situational awareness.?

Sometimes C4ISR is referred to as the nervous systems of the military. Military strategists feel that CRISR technologies are the bedrock of any mission, and the components must work in tandem to effectively enable the “muscle” side of the military—weapons, platforms and troops.

Additionally, C4ISR networks collect massive amounts of data from multiple sensors, databases and other sources worldwide. The data is fused, processed into usable information, and shared securely among authorized users.

Most DoD publications, officials, and defense contractors use the acronym C4ISR, which stands for Command, Control, Communications, Computer, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance.

Want to learn more? Tonex offers ISR Training, a 3-day course that covers concepts and architecture of Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance. ISR training also covers all related enabling architecture, technologies, standards, modeling, analysis, engineering, testing and evaluation.

This course is designed for engineers, technical professionals, project managers and analysts. An overview of SysML, DoDAF 2.0 and NAF 3.0 architecture related to Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance is discussed as well.

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