Global SOF 2018: SOF intelligence fusion presents physical challenges
While the US and its allies have long acknowledged the digital challenges of gathering, integrating and sharing ISR data across multi-national organizations, that coordination also brings mandates of physical co-location challenges and related reachback capabilities.
Some of those challenges were outlined at this week’s Global Special Operations Forces Symposium in Tampa, Florida, by Col Michael Ripley, Chief of Staff, NATO Special Operations Forces Headquarters.
Ripley noted that VAdm Colin Kilrain, commander of NATO Special Operations Headquarters, has focused the organization on issues such as innovation and intelligence fusion.
“Intel fusion requires operators to be in the room because we don’t
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