Rhodes, Carl A.,  1970- <br/><br/>
A strategies-to-tasks framework for planning and executing intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) operations / 
Carl Rhodes, Jeff Hagen, Mark Westergren. 
 - xiii, 23 pages :  illustrations ;  28 cm 
<br/><br/> "RAND Project Air Force." 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 23). 
<br/><br/> To assist in moving intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) planning and execution forward from a fixed target and deliberate planning focus to one centered on emerging targets, the authors propose enhancing the collection management process with a strategies-to-tasks and utility framework. By linking collection targets to operational tasks, objectives, and top-level commander's guidance with relative utilities, planning for the daily intelligence collections and real-time retasking for ad hoc ISR targets could be enhanced. When current tools are modified to provide this information, planners will be able to link collection targets to top-level objectives for better decisionmaking and optimization of low-density, high-demand collection assets, and intelligence officers will be better able to deal with time-sensitive, emerging targets by rapidly comparing the value of collecting an ad hoc collection with the value of collecting opportunities already planned. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0833040421 (pbk.) 9780833040428 (pbk.) 
<br/><br/><label>Standard Tech. Report. No.: </label>RAND/TR-434-AF 
<br/><br/><label>Source: </label> $20.00  paperback 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2007007668 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Aerial reconnaissance--United States.<br/>Command and control systems--United States.<br/>Military intelligence--United States.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>UG760  / .R56 2007