I have been asked several time to have my say about actionable intelligence issues.
Today, I will bring some tips that can turn your intelligence department into an actionable unit.
We will talk about 4 Actionable Intelligence topics and their respective strategies:
Actionable intelligence is an Art
Actionable intelligence regarding network
Actionable email convenient
Actionable web analytics
Having the necessary information immediately available in order to deal with the situation at hand. With regard to call centers, it refers to agents having customer history and related product data available on screen before the call is taken.
For the Air Force, intelligence collection, processing, and distribution can never be too good or too fast.
We spent the last hundred years in aviation endeavors trying to figure out how to target any location on the face of the Earth, rapidly, day and night, all weather, and we can do that today
said Deptula. But then comes assessment, still a sticking point.
Never Too Good or Too Fast
For example, one of the best-known examples of actionable intelligence is positive identification of a high-value person. The successful June 7, 2006 strike that killed al Qaeda terrorist leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi came only after some piece of intelligence confirmed his identity and location to the satisfaction of those in charge. (See “Aerospace World: Persistence Paid Off in Killing Zarqawi,� August 2006, p. 18.)
Seamless Integration
More than 300 hours of Predator surveillance culminated in the June 2006 F-16 attack that killed Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the leader of al Qaeda in Iraq. The immediate aftermath of the strike is shown here, from the F-16's targeting pod.
Operations. Intelligence. These two military activities interact in ways that constitute a critical dynamic for all forms of airpower. Still, it is a relationship marred by a long record of cultural and organizational conflict, occasionally interrupted by temporary and uneasy truces.