Multisensor Aerospace Ground Joint Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Interoperability Coalition Architecture

The Multisensor Aerospace Ground Joint Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Interoperability Coalition Architecture in April of 2005 will be setup as a service oriented architecture from various intelligence systems by metadata tagged in Extensible Markup Language. The Multisensor Aerospace Ground Joint Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Interoperability Coalition Architecture is to piece together a common picture from all types of intelligence to give users a clearer picture by putting together more pieces of the intelligence puzzle. The United States Joint Forces Command, Virginia will lead the Multisensor Aerospace Ground Joint Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Interoperability Coalition Architecture advanced concept technology demonstration through 2008. N.A.T.O. Multinational Consultation, Command, and Control Agency will be assisting. When the United States Joint Forces Multisensor Aerospace Ground Joint Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Interoperability Coalition Architecture becomes operational, a warfighter could query a secure server directly for intelligence data to view all surveillance of a city for the last 24 hours and view sensors to capture needed targeting information.

The first operational users of the United States Joint Forces Multisensor Aerospace Ground Joint Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Interoperability Coalition Architecture version is the 18th Airborne Corps lead by the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Networks and Information Integration. Two United States Joint Forces Multisensor Aerospace Ground Joint Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Interoperability Coalition Architecture version servers are now under test at Langley Air Force Base Transformation Center, Virginia. One server handles video while the other server handles imagery, ground moving target indication radar, synthetic aperture radar, and other sensor. EchoStorm is the prime contractor for the video server and Raytheon is the prime contractor for imagery, ground moving target indication radar, synthetic aperture radar, and other sensors.