CLOUD BASED INTELLIGENCE ARCHITECTURE - 1
In a wide..very wide area of operations
its not possible..for Higher echelon HQs to keep a tab on all the tactical ops
currently going on ..remember now its a more non linear distributed battle
space. In fact Commanders at higher HQ are more concerned with the operational
and strategic outcomes and will focus on those major battles that have a direct
bearing on these.The boot level tactical operations in fact go unnoticed..and
its very true that its not possible to cater to their immediate intelligence
needs or for the soldiers themselves to request information--keeping in mind
the very low strength of Higher HQ intelligence personnel or support
personnel..also the other sensors
..technical/aerial/ground/Humint-R&STACI..these have a very heavy task
schedule..unlimited demands are placed on these assets by the units in
operation and its practically not possible to task them to satisfy the intelligence
needs of every ground tactical unit.The battle environment is terribly
fluid..uncertain..highly dynamic and asset management becomes extremely
difficult and also ISR synchronization.In our indian military context ops and
intelligence are not really viewed as integral part of each other..both forming
one whole.Ops tend to see intelligence as a support function.Somewhere else in
my project I have attempted to project it as a full combat force with all the
attributes that go with infantry and other combat arms ..but in the
intelligence-armory/C2/defensive-offensive TTPs context.For the sake of the
argument in this post Id like to say that we need to empower the ground
infantry and other combat units with tactical int capability , render push of
int from down to upper echelons..horizontal sharing between units , creation of
interim cloud storage ..not at higher HQ Int section but at the created
TACTICAL OPS CENTERS ..where metadata and the most current
intelligence/demographic data/typographical data/terrain info and community
info and even current and immediate past attack/IED profiles are stored..point
is these cloud storage units can be accessed by the soldier through push
systems (i have designed few based on handheld mobile devices with internet connection
or for static centers --terminals-) and int-reach (Request for
Information)...once accessed the cloud storage will give them information about
the enemy history in near vicinity..or answer their immediate int requirements
and if that data is not there in the cloud database..then there will be
actuator system which will sense the intelligence gaps/needs and actuate the
sensor that is nearest to the deployed unit.
The interface
will support abstract queries:
Information that matches these queries is sent by the system (Cloud )to the
handheld device. The handheld interface provides a map of the surrounding area
that displays real-time tracks and detections and imagery metadata. The imagery
metadata describes, at a glance, the imagery available from the surrounding area.The
handheld held interface can also itself be programmed to contain GPS , Voice
Recorder , Pathfinder , Matrices to satisfy different criterion given different
situations , shortages in utilities-ammo-ration,SALUTE Report fields
(Size,Activity , Location , Unit , Time of observed event (not reporting it) ,
Equipment -- all enemy observed variables)..you will find this form draft right
below at the given link.
If needed the cloud can reference higher HQ Int Section for the needed information or laterally the other TOCs. The main idea is to empower the ground soldier with a simple ..very simple user friendly int reach and push interface and link him with the interim cloud storage with its actuator and int reach systems..and other attributes Ill detail later.For this to succeed we need to have TOCs catering to a number of Bn's...a TOC NET at tactical level that is..with cloud storage capability..linking the NET with the Bde TOC NET..finally with higher echelons NETs.