Remarks on resource management in intelligence

Up to now, especially in a land force environment, the processing of intelligence is uncoupled from its sources and their underlying information collection and data acquisition processes. We describe the heuristic organisation of collection of information for intelligence and show that the knowledge which is implemented into automated knowledge based fusion functions for analysis and integration perfectly support the main aspects for the information allocation. We suggest that level 2 and 3 fusion procedures which are based on knowledge e.g. about the behaviour of an adversary, can be used to improve the tasking of the collection efforts initiating by that a changed resource management for intelligence