The S&IPA provides the framework for the TES and IPF/GPF to become interoperable, achieve selective commonality of processors and methods, and to operate as an integrated system of systems. The S&IPA will allow the TES and the IPF/GPF to provide Army Tactical (Corps & Division), Joint Task Force, and Combined Force commanders with a tailorable, scaleable, modular, and easily deployable intelligence pre-processing system of systems, capable of split based operations.
The S&IPA will provide the commander the capability to control, receive, process, display, exploit and disseminate SIGINT and IMINT sensor data from selected national, theater, and organic intelligence platforms, to all echelons, at varying levels of detail, to meet the requirements of mobile, dispersed commanders and staffs in the execution of their mission. The S&IPA will allow situationally-defined user access to its intelligence product databases on a smart push-pull basis, to provide required reports and products; and to assist in the production of other IEW products through cross cueing. Defined users will almost always include the ASAS, the CGS, the DTSS and the Army Battle Command System (ABCS) at the supported echelon.