Army Intelligence Consolidates Data

摘要

Where many sources of intelligence currently confound military analysts' efforts to build an accurate picture of the battlespace, a new joint Web-based system allows them to obtain information through a uniform query across the field of intelligence databases. Known as the Joint Intelligence Operations Capability-Iraq, or JIOC-Ⅰ, the system gives analysts the ability to extract data faster and to spend more time on the analytical side of their tasking. Prior to the development of JIOC-Ⅰ, anyone performing a query for intelligence information would need to query multiple databases separately and would need to bring those results back and then determine what the information from diverse sources actually indicated. JIOC-Ⅰ solves these problems, explains Lynn Schnurr, director of intelligence community information technology, U.S. Army G2. With JIOC-Ⅰ, the relationship among these disparate data sets is already established for the user. Extensible Markup Language (XML) serves as a unifying force so that the user can receive a full return of all the available information from a single query. JIOC-Ⅰ is targeted for deployment in Iraq so that analysts in that complex theater can take full advantage of diverse data sources.