Intelligence-surveillance-reconnaissance analysts plan to test a faster means to provide ISR data to warfighters, using an analysis process called PANACIA, or Predictive Awareness and Network-Centric Analysis for Collaborative Intelligence Assessment. The process integrates a wide range of data that would have been stove piped to individual section analysts and brings it all into one place for faster review and processing back to the battlefield, according to Col. Mike Canna, the ISR division chief for the experiment. The process is building on the concept of “fusion”—which matches up various types of information to develop an assessment that tries to predict enemy actions.
Members of the Air Force Reserve’s 920th Rescue Wing helped save 11 airplane crash survivors off the coast of Florida on May 12. The Reserve Airmen were flying an HC-130J Combat King II and an HH-60W Jolly Green II on a routine training flight when a Coast Guard call diverted…