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chapter 3: programs
MCISRE Construct
Fixed Site: The MCISRE Fixed Site is managed by
the MCIA in Quantico, Virginia. It serves as the Marine
Corps principal connection to national agencies
and exposes all USMC ISR data to the IC. The fixed
site is the primary enterprise data storage and archival
site and serves as the primary reach-back site for Garrison
Nodes.
Garrison Nodes: MICs are operationalizing garrison
capacity in support of operational forces worldwide.
They serve as critical reach-back nodes for expeditionary
forces. The MICs conduct intelligence
planning, analysis, and production in collaboration
with MCIA, expeditionary forces, or designated joint
force elements. These reach-back sites are located at
each of the three MEFs and are capable of supporting
forward operations from garrison or deploying to augment
tactical, expeditionary nodes.
Expeditionary Nodes: Expeditionary nodes are
deployed with the MAGTF. They are scalable, aligned
to the mission, and provide intelligence planning, direction,
collection, analysis, production, and dissemination
of intelligence and combat information to the
MAGTF and joint forces.
Operational Overview
The MCISRE is built on three core pillars to support
MAGTF intelligence requirements in both garrison
and deployed environments: (1) Persistent ISR (P-ISR)
enables the MAGTF to “See”; (2) Distributed Common
Ground System–Marine Corps Enterprise (DCGS-MC)
enables intelligence professionals to “Understand”; and
(3) Intelligence, Dissemination, and Utilization (IDU)
enables the MAGTF to “Act.” Individual components
of these pillars are further described under Chapter 3,
Pillar 5, Section 6: Intelligence, Surveillance, and
Reconnaissance Systems and Equipment.
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