6 Sep 96

SUBJECT: Intelligence Systems Vision

1. PURPOSE: Provide information for Industry Day

1. KEY POINTS:

- The USSTRATCOM Directorate of Intelligence receives information from a wide range of diverse sources to produce several hundred substantive intelligence products supporting CINCSTRAT and his staff, force elements, and the Intelligence Community.

- Employment of evolving communications - computer systems technology is becoming increasingly more important for timely development and dissemination of products.

- Required intelligence systems attributes include:

-- Responsiveness to requirements.

-- Adaptability to change in terms of hours/days and within existing resource constraints.

-- Interoperability within the command, as well as with other commands, the services, and national agencies.

-- At one workstation, the intelligence analyst should be able to view individual information sources, as well as results of multiple source correlation.

-- A standard look and feel across all systems elements.

-- Easy to use.

- The USSTRATCOM Directorate of Intelligence is currently in year five of a six year architecture transition effort, known as Architecture 95.

PREPARED BY: MR HOWARD A. VANN, GS-15

J200, EXT. 4-2515

APPROVED BY: Brig Gen Kera, J2

CAPT Johnson, J25

-- Architecture 95 transitions primary intelligence support from a large mainframe host processor which employs a number of command unique functional applications to a DoD standards based client/server environment.

--- Drivers for transition include requirements for improved interoperability and fiscal constraints.

--- Successful completion provides a 25% reduction in annual operating costs and a 27% intelligence systems support manning reduction beginning if FY 98.

--- The resulting command intelligence systems architecture will be the first within DoD Intelligence fully compliant with OSD migration systems directives.

-- Usage of multimedia technology is now limited but rapidly growing.

-- Advances in communications - computer systems technology are driving both the command and DoD intelligence to relook ways of doing business.

- Future USSTRATCOM intelligence systems requirements can be divided into two distinct phases:

-- Architecture 95, which is scheduled for completion by the end of FY 97.

-- Post Architecture 95 presents a series of challenges still in the very early stages of definition, including the Defense Intelligence Agency Joint Intelligence Virtual Architecture (JIVA), Defense Information Infrastructure (DII) transition, and Defense Messaging System (DMS) implementation.

- The USSTRATCOM Intelligence strategy for moving to the future is an extension of the strategy that has been employed successfully over the past five years.

- Through careful, methodical employment of Corporate Information Management processes and techniques, USSTRATCOM Intelligence has achieved measurable success in addressing interoperability and resource constraints

- Accomplishments to date and in- place strategies provide a solid basis for providing responsive intelligence systems support at USSTRATCOM well into the next century.