Multi-source Intelligence Ground System (MIGS)
Multi-source Intelligence Ground System (MIGS)
will receive, process, exploit, and disseminate multi-intelligence
(multi-INT) data from spaceborne, airborne, and surface sensors. MIGS will baseline all Combatant Air Force [CAF] fixed and deployable intelligence ground systems to a common commercial/government off-the-shelf (COTS/GOTS) hardware and software standard. The commonality and interoperability provided by MIGS will allow intelligence units to distribute operations across the CAF, as required. Deployable assets will be modular and scaleable to satisfy specific intelligence needs and theater requirements. Initial plans for the development of MIGS include the incorporation of the Contingency Airborne Reconnaissance System (CARS), the Joint Service Imagery Processing System (JSIPS), JSIPS-Augmentation (JSIPS-A), the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Exploitation System (UES), and the Theater Airborne Reconnaissance System’s (TARS) Digital Photo Lab (DPL) assets and capabilities into an integrated suite of shelterized and transit-cased deployable systems.
Major advantages include:
- Will comply with Defense Airborne Reconnaissance Office (DARO)-directed
Common Imagery Ground/ Surface System (CIGSS) and Joint SIGINT Avionics
Family (JSAF) standards.
- Will provide CAF commanders with truly multi-INT ground systems.
- Will reduce costs of multiple, independent system upgrades.
- Will allow CAF-wide distributed operations through system interoperability and
commonality.
- Employment flexibility allows deployed operations or in-garrison support via
reachback.
Sources and Methods
- ANNEX F Common Solution/Concept List (U) Air Force Mission Area Plan (MAP) [as of 11 July 1997 - Rev 10] - Detailed and comprehensive Air Combat Command descriptions of weapon system modernization efforts required to satisfy known needs.
http://www.fas.org/irp/program/process/migs.htm
Created by John Pike
Maintained by Steven Aftergood
Updated Friday, November 20, 1998 10:08:50 AM
