Integration and Dissemination

Intelligence professionals use ArcGIS to create long-term intelligence estimates and daily briefings. With dynamic access to data and simple analytic tools, staff can quickly answer unanticipated questions from decision-makers. The collaborative tools in ArcGIS make it possible for teams and shift workers to assemble products rapidly, using the best available intelligence. When estimates and briefings are shared, the link to the original data and analysis is preserved, making it easier for subordinate commands to incorporate the official estimates into their workflows.

Intelligence analysts can use ArcGIS to integrate intelligence data into the common operational picture. In addition to providing the status and location of an adversary, analysts can produce running estimates based on recent activity. Threat analysis based on capabilities and tactics all provide key information to commanders and staff when conducting operations. These dynamic layers of information can be queried to aid in understanding threats' impacts on operational plans.

Intelligence data provides the context and framework for the intelligence planning process. ArcGIS has robust tools for performing intelligence preparation of the operational environment. Instead of producing static products, ArcGIS turns intelligence into easily shared dynamic information layers. Intelligence professionals attain greater knowledge of the battlespace and adversaries and can share it with all commanders and staff.

ArcGIS provides a collaboration framework for teams that want to create and share intelligence information products throughout the intelligence cycle. ArcGIS also supports cross-organizational collaboration to unite key intelligence from multiple agencies. Intelligence analysts are often organized by geography, topic, or area of specialty. To develop integrated intelligence and decision-making products, analysts need to effectively collaborate with their teams and across organization boundaries.