A Strategies-to-Tasks Framework for Planning and Executing Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) Operations

by Carl Rhodes, Jeff Hagen, Mark Westergren

To move ISR planning and execution forward from a fixed target and deliberate planning focus to one centered on emerging targets, we propose enhancing collection management with a strategies-to-tasks and utility framework. By linking collection targets to operational tasks, objectives, and commander guidance with relative utilities, planning for the daily intelligence collections and real-time retasking for ad hoc ISR targets could be enhanced.

38 pages, Paperback

First published March 15, 2007

About the author

Carl Rhodes is Professor of Organization Studies and Dean at UTS Business School in Sydney, Australia. His research critically investigates ethico-political dimensions of organizations and business, with a special focus on justice, equality, resistance, dissent and democracy.