Introduction to Jane’s Intelligence Centres Ashley Byford-Bates Client Services Manager
Who are Jane’s Fred T. Jane Leading provider of intelligence and analysis on national and international defence, security and risk developments Over 100 years of experience Breadth and depth of content Online and offline solutions Insight, Intelligence and Impartiality Open source intelligence
Accessing Jane’s Intelligence Centre’s Either via ‘My Account’ or JDET – JDIM – JMSA –
Agenda Introduction to Intelligence Centre’s Overview of Product (‘the science’) Key Features How to search Practice Scenarios Q&A
Overview of the Products Subject-based access to all information Reference and news in one place Categorised by subject and info type Enhanced search, navigation, cross- linking Daily news and other important info more visible alerts to tell users what’s new Tools to assist users with creating reports
Easy to Use Navigation b
“Turkey stands in the centre of the most unstable and risky regions in the world such as the Balkans, Caucasus and Middle East. We consider it necessary for Turkey to have a strong armed forces – with formidable land forces as its most important component – as the best guaranteed for Turkey to be unaffected by these turbulent regions and remain, not only today but also in the future, and island of stability and security” General Yasar Buyukanit General Staff Commander
Defence Industry and Markets Understand country capabilities Identify potential requirements, opportunities and trends Look at country defence budgets Spending and procurement analysis Interviews with leading military, political and business leaders Company profiles and directories News and market analysis
Defence Equipment and Technology Equipment specifications Capability studies Platforms and versions Designators, inventories and roles Market trends and analysis Defence News and Insight Supplementary Content
Military and Security Assessments Evaluation of political, diplomatic and military capabilities Coverage of conventional and asymmetric threats Measurements of global terrorism and security activity Overview of state stability Serious and organised crime Proliferation and procurement Counter threat capability
Category Driven Searching
Drill Down to the Right Content
Taxonomies Tiered taxonomy structure Ensures accurate searching Saves time and effort ‘Drill down into content Intuitive searching Avoid information overload Land vehicles & systems Armour & artillery Tank destroyers
Dashboard Interface
Quick search Search across different content types
Advanced Search Narrow your search by selecting from a range of specific search criteria
Results Options
Active Navigation System automatically injects hyperlinks to related data
Export to Spreadsheet
Document View Options
Saved Searches/ Alerts
Saved Searches and Alerts
What is a Search Operator? A Search Operator is a reserved word or character used to limit or expand the scope of your search query.
Boolean Operators A query allowing the inclusion or exclusion of documents containing certain words through the use of operators such as - AND (+) NOT (-) OR NEAR
Boolean Operators AND (+): this will return results containing both of the keywords – Submarines AND Nuclear Submarines+Nuclear NuclearSubmarine
Boolean Operators OR: this will return results containing either of the keywords Rocket OR Missile MissileRocket
Boolean Operators NOT (-): this will return results that include the first keyword, and exclude the second keyword - Submarines NOT Nuclear Submarines–Nuclear Nuclear Submarine
Boolean Operators The operator is used to return results where the keywords are in close proximity to one another. Can be configured to operate with user-defined range - (N can be between 1 and 1024)
Boolean Operators = searches for two words that are right next to each other (similar to phrase searching) Mortar Bomb or higher = do not use commas To retrieve documents with stemmed variations of the words lightweight, fighter, prototype, and programme within 5 words of each other Lightweight fighter prototype programme
Using “Parentheses” Hornet OR Prowler AND Nimitz This query will look for documents that contain Hornet, or look for documents that contain Prowler and Nimitz To change the emphasis, use parentheses (Hornet OR Prowler) AND Nimitz This query will now look for documents that contain Hornet and Nimitz or Prowler and Nimitz
Using “Parentheses” Will change the emphasis of your search query. Will match only those documents that contain the search query as typed in “parentheses”
“Phrase Searching” Achieved by entering two or more keywords surrounded by double quotes ( “ ” ) Search query will return only exact matches where the keywords appear adjacent in a document – “Mortar Bomb” “Gulf War Syndrome”
Wildcard Characters Lets you define a search string with variables to locate related word matches in documents. A wild card string consists of special characters such as Asterisk * Question Mark ?
Wildcard Characters Asterisk * - expands the scope of your search by representing 0 or more alphanumeric characters at the beginning, middle, or end of the word *jet = Learjet, AlphaJet, Altajet Defen*e = Defense, Defence, Defensive, Defendable Hydro* = Hydromechanical, Hydroelectric, Hydrographic Question Mark ? – limits the scope of your search by representing a single alphanumeric character; may use more than one to indicate multiple characters Ma?ia = Maria, Mafia Defen?e = Defence, Defense ?at = Cat, Hat, Rat ??at = That, Chat
Stemming Keywords An operator for expanding the scope of your search to find documents containing terms that march the root of the term and stemmed variations - Verbs will stem to verbs Destroy = Destroys, Destroyed, Destroying Nouns will stem to nouns Destroyer = Destroyers
Intel Centres in Action Future Combat Systems
The ‘Big Picture’ e.g. Future Combat System
The ‘Intelligence Centre’ Concept/rationaleDevelopmentMarket/Future Programs JDF IDR JAWA JDW JAA JDI JWDI Related Developments - - Mounted Combat System - Non-Line-of-Sight Cannon - Intelligent Munitions System Missions include – Direct/Indirect fire, Air defence, Mobility/Counter mobility C4I, Combat service support Government strategy, defence spending and budgets Related Technologies C-130 Hercules RQ-8A Fire Scout Four ‘threat quadrants’ - Traditional - Irregular - Catastrophic - Disruptive Companies involved - Boeing - Lockheed Martin - Northrop Grumman - BAE - General Dynamics Lessons learned from existing programmes – Abrams and Bradley, Joint Unmanned Combat Air System (J-UCAS)
Lessons Learnt
Escalating Use of Improvised Explosive Devices Jane’s Intelligence Review Article on IEDS Learning response Assessing capabilities Damage limitation Prevention techniques Investigation, countermeasures Outlook for IED evolution
‘Uparmoured Fighting Vehicles’
Conclusions Demonstrate array of content Not only current situations but also future analysis Not just reference and news – but more importantly ‘business intelligence’ Approach product based around your needs Complete open source solution