Introduction to Jane’s Intelligence Centres

Ashley Byford-BatesClient 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 http://www.janes.com

• JDET – http://jdet.janes.com• JDIM – http://jdim.janes.com• JMSA – http://jmsa.janes.com

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• Email alerts to tell users what’s new• Tools to assist users with creating reports

Easy to Use Navigation

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“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 BuyukanitGeneral 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/Email 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 NuclearSubmarines+Nuclear

NuclearSubmarine

Boolean Operators

OR: this will return results containing either of the keywordsRocket 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 <NEAR> 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 -<NEAR/N>

(N can be between 1 and 1024)

Boolean Operators

<NEAR/1> = searches for two words that are right next to each other (similar to phrase searching)Mortar <NEAR/1> Bomb

<NEAR/1000> or higher = do not use commas<NEAR/1001>

To retrieve documents with stemmed variations of the words lightweight, fighter, prototype, and programme within 5 words of each otherLightweight <NEAR/5> fighter <NEAR/5>prototype <NEAR/5> 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, MafiaDefen?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 verbsDestroy = Destroys, Destroyed, Destroying

Nouns will stem to nounsDestroyer = Destroyers

Intel Centres in Action

Future Combat Systems

The ‘Big Picture’ e.g. Future Combat System

The ‘Intelligence Centre’

Concept/rationale Development Market/Future Programs

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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 HerculesRQ-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