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SOCOM Needs Open Architecture Intel Systems To Identify, Track Threats

Wednesday, March 7th, 2018

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Special Operations Command should “aggressively” pursue an enterprise-wide open architecture intelligence-sharing network to make the most of the data it and partner organizations within and outside the Defense Department gather, according to Mark Mitchell, principal deputy assistant secretary of defense for special operations and low-intensity conflict.Asked how Special Operations forces should approach the need for open architecture intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance infrastructure into which platforms and data could be plugged and shared, Mitchell simply said “aggressively.”“I’m firmly convinced that the…

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