GMV analyzes transformation of the JISR cycle in 3rd edition of CESEDEN’s Intelligence Notebooks

Once again this year, GMV has made a contribution to the Intelligence Notebooks series. These are collections of academic articles published by Spain’s National Center for Advanced Defense Studies (CESEDEN), which is part of the country’s Ministry of Defense. This third edition is entitled La Transformación de la Inteligencia a través de la Innovación (The Transformation of Intelligence Through Innovation), and it features contributions made by authors representing a wide range of entities and organizations, in support of CESEDEN’s view that in order to address threats and challenges in a consistent and effective way, intelligence must be seen as an asset that does not belong exclusively to any single organization.

This edition includes an article by Begoña Rojo, a member of GMV’s Defense and Security Business Development team, who presents her perspectives on transformation of the joint intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (JISR) cycle in the context of the digital era, which as she explains, is being driven by emerging and disruptive technologies.

The title of her article is “Transformación del ciclo JISR en la era digital: innovación tecnológica para alcanzar la superioridad informativa” (“Transformation of the JISR Cycle in the Digital Era: Technological innovation to achieve information superiority”), and it includes her analysis of how integration of capabilities such as artificial intelligence, distributed sensors, unmanned platforms, edge computing, and space systems is redefining the way in which the intelligence process is being planned, executed, and applied during increasingly multi-domain operations. She examines the impact of these technologies during each of the five steps of the JISR cycle (TCPED), and she discusses some of the challenges derived from their use, including the need to ensure interoperability and data security, manage the risks associated with automation, and address algorithmic biases and vulnerabilities related to cyberattacks.

This third publication in the Intelligence Notebooks series is based on the same concept that gave rise to the project in 2023: the need to address topics that often receive insufficient coverage in publications on military intelligence. The event held to present the release of this third edition of the Intelligence Notebooks took place on February 18th in the CESEDEN main auditorium, moderated by the journalist and author Vicente Vallés.