The effects of any budget/program decisions made since the information was collected during 1997-98 are NOT reflected in the National Security Space Road Map (NSSRM).

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(U) The Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) category uses space assets to provide situational awareness of terrestrial events and activities to the warfighter. ISR provide the warfighter situational awareness of events and activities on Earth, including surface force and aircraft movements, construction of facilities, information on demographics and geography, and significant man-made or natural events, using information collected by space systems. The ISR category also uses space assets to detect, identify, track, assess, and warn of terrestrial based threats to US and Allied national interests. Includes missile launch preparation, detection and warning (ballistic or cruise, intercontinental or theater, fixed or mobile, land or sea based), warning of airborne threats including surface to air missiles, warning of terrestrial based threats to space systems, and warning of threatening naval or ground force movements.

• Related Initiatives
• Related Categories
• Road Map Placements
• Additional Hotlinks

Related Initiatives (U):

This Table Is Unclassified.

Name	Title
DDS	Defense Dissemination System (DDS)

Related Categories (U):

This Table Is Unclassified.

Name	Title
TENCAP	Tactical Exploitation of National Capabilities (TENCAP)

Road Map Placements (U):

This Table Is Unclassified.

Name	Title
ISR	SPACE FORCE ENHANCEMENT: INTELLIGENCE SURVEILLANCE AND RECONNAISSANCE

Requirements, Funding and Additional Hotlinks (U):

(U) None.

Date Of Information (U):

(U) 21 November 1997

(U) Road Map Production Date: 18 June 2001