Patent ID: 7475054

Claim:
In a computerized system, a method for responding to a user request for information, the method comprising: receiving a request for intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) information from a user; generating a solution for the received request, wherein the generating includes: automatically examining a collection of past requests and associated past solutions to determine whether a suitable solution to the received request already exists; if a suitable solution to the received request does not already exist, automatically determining a current or near current availability and/or capability of individual ISR field assets for use in generating the solution, including receiving information from one or more autonomous military intelligence systems from a collective of intelligence systems including information derived from at least one of: military surveillance, military reconnaissance, or a military sensor; and automatically selecting a suitable set of ISR field assets for use in generating the solution, wherein the selecting is based, at least in part, on determining the current or near current availability and/or capability of the individual information assets.