text: Chapter 6
  NATIONAL ISR RESOURCES AND GUIDELINES
  6-16. In the context of the National Intelligence Priority Framework, ISR operations justifies requests for
  additional national ISR resources. National collection resources are leveraged against national priorities.
  Intelligence officers must remember that these assets are scarce and have a multitude of high-priority
  requirements.
  NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE SUPPORT TEAMS
  6-17. National intelligence support teams (NISTs) are formed at the request of a deployed joint or
  combined task force commander. NISTs are comprised of intelligence and communications experts from
  Defense Intelligence Agency, Central Intelligence Agency, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency,
  National Security Agency, and other agencies as required to support the needs of the joint force
  commander. Defense Intelligence Agency is the executive agent for all NIST operations. Once on station,
  the NIST supplies a steady stream of agency intelligence on local conditions and potential threats. The
  needs of the mission dictate size and composition of NISTs.
  6-18. Depending on the situation, NIST personnel are often sent to support corps- or division-level
  organizations. However, during recent operations in Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring
  Freedom, national agencies placed personnel at the brigade combat team (BCT) level in some cases.
  PLANNING AND REQUESTS FOR INFORMATION SYSTEMS
  6-19. Several national databases and Intelink Web sites contain information applicable to the intelligence
  preparation of the battlefield (IPB) process and national ISR planning. Commanders and their staff should
  review and evaluate those sites to determine the availability of current data, information, and intelligence
  products that answer intelligence or information requirements.
  * Modernized integrated database contains current, worldwide order-of-battle data organized by
  country, unit, facility, and equipment.
  * National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency’s National Exploitation System permits users to
  research the availability of imagery coverage over targets of interest and to access historical
  national imagery archives and imagery intelligence reports.
  * Country knowledge bases and crisis home pages are maintained by many combatant command
  and joint force commands as Intelink Web sites containing the best and most up-to-date
  intelligence products available from the intelligence community.
  * Signals intelligence online information system is a database that contains current and
  historical finished signals intelligence products.
  * Secure analyst file environment is a set of structured data files that provide access to the
  following databases:
  Intelligence Report Index Summary File contains index records and the full text of
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  current and historical intelligence information reports.
  All-Source Document Index contains index records and abstracts for hardcopy all-source
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  intelligence documents produced by Defense Intelligence Agency.
  * Human intelligence collection requirements is a registry of all validated human intelligence
  requirements and tasking.
  * Modernized Defense Intelligence Threat Data System is a collection of analytic tools that
  support the retrieval and analysis of information and intelligence related to counterintelligence,
  indications and warning, and counterterrorism.
  * Community online intelligence system for end users and managers is a database application
  that allows the user to identify and track the status of all validated crisis and noncrisis
  intelligence production requirements.