Leading figures in the geospatial intelligence (GEOINT) community have identified a shortlist of 10 challenges facing military and governmental players in the sector, the Defence Geospatial Intelligence (DGI) conference heard yesterday.
Addressing delegates in London on 20 January, representatives from Canada, New Zealand, the UK and US highlighted the importance of changing trends within the GEOINT community, with cultural and behavioural challenges commonly agreed as comprising the biggest hurdle to future progression.
According to Commander David Crossman, director of the New Zealand Defence Force’s GEOINT Organisation, there remain plenty of personnel “stuck in their ways” regarding the evolution of such capabilities.
“They have been doing things very well for a very long time but over the past 24 months, we have been looking at getting younger people out of universities, putting them on military courses and sticking them under the ‘old heads’ to get that experience in a mentoring role,” he described.
Similary, Air Vice Marshal Jon Rigby, Director of Cyber Intelligence and Information Integration, Defence Intelligence (DCI3) at the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD), explained how it was critical to the future of GEOINT to change behaviours across the intelligence and operational communities.
Other challenges highlighted included improvements to training with the removal of existing stovepipes as well as requirements to balance teams of technological exports and military leaders in order to best improve future collaboration with coalition partners.
Meanwhile, Raytheon VP for business development and strategy, Jane Chappell, warned of the “balancing act” required to deal with technologically advanced state actors and agile but unpredictable anonymous non-state actors.
She also described an oxymoron which currently exists in the market which requires organisations to protect data but also demands them to share it with partners with requirements to cross all security domains within quickly formed “ad-hoc” coalitions.
“With data, how do we best exploit, share, protect and manage it?” Chappell asked while asserting how intelligence analysts must focus on the analysis piece instead of searching for information.
Col. Gregory Burt, Commander of the Canadian Forces Intelligence Group, warned how critical it was that technology keep pace with the evolution of intelligence and expressed concern over how resources must meet operational expectations as funding levels changed.
Finally, Rigby said much importance would be placed on the adaptability of intelligence processes in the face of constantly evolving battlespaces, as well as capabilities to “get the edge” over adversaries in the open source intelligence domain.
Addressing delegates in London on 20 January, representatives from Canada, New Zealand, the UK and US highlighted the importance of changing trends within the GEOINT community, with cultural and behavioural challenges commonly agreed as comprising the biggest hurdle to future progression.
According to Commander David Crossman, director of the New Zealand Defence Force’s GEOINT Organisation, there remain plenty of personnel “stuck in their ways” regarding the evolution of such capabilities.
“They have been doing things very well for a very long time but over the past 24 months, we have been looking at getting younger people out of universities, putting them on military courses and sticking them under the ‘old heads’ to get that experience in a mentoring role,” he described.
Similary, Air Vice Marshal Jon Rigby, Director of Cyber Intelligence and Information Integration, Defence Intelligence (DCI3) at the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD), explained how it was critical to the future of GEOINT to change behaviours across the intelligence and operational communities.
Other challenges highlighted included improvements to training with the removal of existing stovepipes as well as requirements to balance teams of technological exports and military leaders in order to best improve future collaboration with coalition partners.
Meanwhile, Raytheon VP for business development and strategy, Jane Chappell, warned of the “balancing act” required to deal with technologically advanced state actors and agile but unpredictable anonymous non-state actors.
She also described an oxymoron which currently exists in the market which requires organisations to protect data but also demands them to share it with partners with requirements to cross all security domains within quickly formed “ad-hoc” coalitions.
“With data, how do we best exploit, share, protect and manage it?” Chappell asked while asserting how intelligence analysts must focus on the analysis piece instead of searching for information.
Col. Gregory Burt, Commander of the Canadian Forces Intelligence Group, warned how critical it was that technology keep pace with the evolution of intelligence and expressed concern over how resources must meet operational expectations as funding levels changed.
Finally, Rigby said much importance would be placed on the adaptability of intelligence processes in the face of constantly evolving battlespaces, as well as capabilities to “get the edge” over adversaries in the open source intelligence domain.
Andrew White
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