CASE STUDY

Case Study
Open Source Intelligence

Client Need
Establish defence agency’s open source intelligence system, including appropriate collection methods, analytical tools, distribution mechanisms, and workflow management processes.

Jane’s Methodology
Staffed a dedicated open source intelligence centre with former military intelligence experts and developed a concept of operations to leverage Jane’s Expert Network.

Recommendations
Monitor various foreign media, deliver ongoing reports on significant emerging global developments and implications, and provide relevant in-depth position papers and profiles to meet agency needs.

Value-Add Results
Significantly increased agency’s situational awareness via timely, focused, and actionable open source intelligence not typically available through traditional media outlets.

Open Source Intelligence

JSAS works with government and military clients to provide the data collection resources and experience to get the answers clients seek. In some cases, our consultants complement existing teams or databases, while in others we fill a gap in the intelligence puzzle.

Training
Jane’s shares its best practices with clients, helping them build and sustain a successful open source intelligence system and organization. Through operational and functional training, clients learn appropriate information collection and analysis methods, dissemination mechanisms, and workflow management processes that ensure disciplined operations.

Collection and Analysis
JSAS consultants leverage multidisciplinary backgrounds as military leaders, policy analysts, and strategic business consultants in performing information analysis. Intelligence support engagements vary and can include assessment of discrete regional flash points, provisioning of on-site open source analyst teams, and monitoring foreign media to deliver timely intelligence updates.