Topic Briefing
Realize Significant
Manpower Savings
in PED with edgeCore™
How the edgeCore Platform Enables PED, Reduces Manpower Requirements, & Delivers High-Value, Decision-Ready Data for Dissemination
PED PROCESS:
The Functional Transformation of Raw Data into Situational Understanding
In basic terms, PED is the transformation of raw collected data into usable information distributed for further analysis and/or use as combat information by commanders and staff.
When broken down, the PED process is a collection of functions that fit into one of the following categories:
Processing: Automated or human cognitive-based conversion of collection data into useable information.
Exploitation*: The refinement of raw data to provide information by trained personnel or automation.
Dissemination: The distribution or reporting of relevant information in a format suitable for commanders, staff, analysts, and other consumers.
* These manpower-intensive, human-based processes are heavily dependent on the workload and experience of operators/analysts and have effects on the timeliness and quality of the information/intelligence produced. Most sensor data are processed and exploited by a human at some point during the PED function.
PED is a critical component of the DoD Intelligence Process, which supports commanders by providing the intelligence needed to support mission command and the commander’s situational understanding.
Introduction
The increase in the use of intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) systems over the past decade has created a significant increase of raw collection data available to the DoD and the Intelligence Community. Unfortunately, this surplus of data has also made it increasingly difficult to conduct efficient processing and analysis to produce timely combat information and actionable intelligence. Within the DoD, this problem has sparked changes to intelligence-related force structure, development of new complex information systems, and other advancements, specifically in intelligence processing, exploitation, and dissemination.
PED is a process that supports intelligence operations by converting and refining collected information for reporting to commanders, decision-makers, intelligence analysts, and other consumers through a collection of related functions.
The amount of data that the DoD Intelligence community generates, collects, and stores are exponentially increasing. With much of it unstructured, agencies and analysts are presented with the complicated and challenging task of managing it effectively. Addressing this challenge is not just about efficient use of storage infrastructure, it is also about making data accessible and visible so that it can be used to create actual value and situational understanding for the community.
How the edgeCore Platform Enables PED, Reduces Manpower Requirements, & Delivers High-Value, Decision-Ready Data for Dissemination
PROCESSING
edgeCore brings real-time data together from disparate sources in the form needed by the exploitation team without creating any new data stores.
EXPLOITATION
edgeCore provides real-time transformation of the data and puts it in the format that today’s intelligence analyst needs in order to make high-value mission-critical decisions.
DISSEMINATION
edgeCore gives decision makers the data they need, in the most actionable format, all in record time. Not only can they view the analysis and make decisions but edgeCore can be configured so that they can take action within their secure authoritative systems once they know the course of action may wish to take.