Terminology
Components
Planning and Pizza
Linkages, Systems, and Cycles (Oh my!)
"P"rin"C"iples
100
This is an information requirement that has been identified and prioritized by the Commander in support of their planning.
What is a PIR?
100
A grouping of information collection, processing, dissemination, and communication assets designed, structured, linked, and disciplined to provide situational awareness support to targeting and support to commanders in decision making.
What is ISTAR?
100
This involves the use of more than one same-discipline asset to cover the same target, increasing the chance of success through continual coverage and/or mitigating the failure of an individual collection system.
What is redundancy?
100
This is a system that is constituted by: Planning, Task Coordination, Execution, Receipt and Initial Exploitation, and Dissemination.
What is the ISTAR Cycle?
100
The commander sets the priorities for the ISTAR effort.
What is Command Driven?
200
Knowledge of the elements in the battlespace necessary to make well-informed decisions. Is considered to be the fundamental purpose of ISTAR.
What is Situational Awareness?
200
Systematic observation of aerospace, surface or subsurface areas, places, persons, or things by visual, aural, electronic, photographic or other means.
What is surveillance?
200
Consideration of this principle in planning enables the complementary coverage by a combination of sensors from multiple disciplines to both increase the chances of successful collection and the possibility of corroboration, whilst reducing the risk of successful adversary deception.
What is mix?
200
For this system, during the PLAN REVIEW phase, ISTAR provides support to plan review and rehearsals. This is of particular importance in reference to condition-based Decision Points and to explore branch planning.
What is the Operational Planning Process?
200
Measures intended to prevent damage, destruction, or disclosure of ISTAR assets and their capabilities.
What is protection?
300
Relevant to OPSEC and deception planning, this is information that must be protected.
What is an EEFI?
300
Obtain, by visual observation or other methods, information about the activities of the enemy or secure data concerning ground.
What is Reconnaissance?
300
The inclusion of new requirements into planned or ongoing missions and is a resource management feature of collection. It also refers to the effective use of non-organic, non-national or non-traditional ISTAR assets, such as targeting pods on fighter aircraft.
What is integration?
300
This cycle receives inputs from the ISTAR cycle during its COLLECTION phase.
What is the Intelligence Cycle?
300
Collection requirements, including tasks from higher HQ and requests from flanking and lower HQ, must be consolidated and prioritized as part of the ISTAR planning process.
What is Centralized Coordination?
400
Information the Commander and staff need to know about own forces for the mission (examples may include: disposition, capabilities, readiness and support).
What is a FFIR?
400
The product resulting from the collection, processing, analysis, integration and interpretation of available information that contributes to the understanding of the operating environment
What is Intelligence?
400
This principle asserts that ISTAR products must be archived, facilitating discovery and recovery in order to inform future operations about the past environment.
What is data persistence?
400
The process through which intelligence requirements are translated into collection tasks, and by which internal and external requirements are collated, de-conflicted, and prioritized.
What is Collection Coordination and Intelligence Requirement Management?
400
Changes in the current situation, evolving collection requirements and serviceability of collection systems can require the modification of the ISTAR plan at any time and must be monitored closely.
What is continuous review?
500
Information requirements which will inform the Commander and staff about the physical and human elements of the environment.
What are Neutral/Environmental Information Requirements?
500
Detection, identification and location of a target in sufficient detail to permit the effective employment of weapons
What is Target Acquisition?
500
What is combination pizza?
500
ISTAR receives input from this cycle in support of ISTAR's PLANNING phase and provides input to this cycle during its DELIVER phase.
What is the Targeting Cycle?
500
The requirement for persistent coverage, system redundancy, security considerations, and suitability of ISTAR plans for complex terrain and operating environments.
What is precision?