Information, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Enterprise (ISRE) Experimentation is a research initiative designed to evaluate and improve technology assessment and transition through collaboration between performers engaged in like research.
ISRE experimentation uses a variety of venues—including the Office of Naval Research, Joint Forces Command and the Special Operations Command—to visualize and test possible future populated ISR and command and control architectures.
Experimentation focuses on testing the relevance and maturity of advanced sensor fields, analysis application services and information production and dissemination engines.
To demonstrate an enterprise:
- The output of all sensors are visualized by a common visualization tool;
- All data and derived information is saved to a common semantic information space;
- A common information filter supports both the commander and the analyst, and;
- A common sensor-planning and management tool is used to translate information requirements to multi-INT sensor tasking.
Persistent intelligence, surveillance and reconaissance sensor technology examined to date includes tactical wide-area airborne surveillance, smart tower and ground imagers, signals and measurement-intelligent sensors. Analysis tools used in enterprise experimentation include services that can structure information, find and characterize low-level entities and groups, and tools that are able to make valued predictions. ISR to C2 systems tested have used semantic information models to enable the right information to reach the consumers of information.
Each successive experiment adds capability and uses cases relevant to the MC-ISRE roadmap. An open architecture allows many performers to easily work together.