Great Power Competition Defines Defense Intelligence

摘要

The new threat picture has signaled the time for defense intelligence to come together in an unprecedented common operating picture. This effort, which may include a moon shot equivalent known as MARS, will require many technology-driven improvements, according to the head of the Defense Intelligence Agency. With the broader availability of new technology and the need to conduct globally integrated operations at scale and speed, U.S. forces must move away from stovepipe systems and operate more as an enterprise, posits Lt. Gen. Robert P. Ashley Jr., USA, Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) director. "For us to be able to operate really as an enterprise, to be able to move information from the intelligence community level down to warfighters ... and to be able to ingest that at the services, we must be much more interoperable than we've been in the past."