The U.S. Air Force has issued a new flight plan that details the service’s intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance goals in the next 10 years in order to maintain technological advantage amid threats posed by near-peer adversaries.

The Next Generation ISR Dominance Flight Plan suggests efforts to advance disruptive technologies; use of cross-domain and multi-role ISR capabilities to build up lethality and readiness; and investments in basic capabilities of partnerships and people to promote culture change, the Air Force reported Thursday.

Lt. Gen. VeraLinn “Dash” Jamieson, deputy chief of staff for ISR, said the service’s future ISR portfolio will be composed of a “multi-domain, multi-intelligence, government/commercial-partnered collaborative sensing grid.”

“It will be resilient, persistent, and penetrating to support a range of options across the spectrum of conflict,” Jamieson added.

The pursuit of disruptive tech and opportunities consists of machine intelligence, agile capability development and data strategy as its three lines of effort, while human capital and partnerships comprise the pathway for driving culture change through investments in foundational capabilities.

The adoption of cross-domain and multi-role ISR for lethality and readiness has five lines of effort and those are high altitude assets; ISR from cyber space; publicly available information; ISR from space operations; and persistent, penetrating, multi-role capabilities.

The National Institute of Standards and Technology has released the second draft of a handbook that describes how to extend onto mobile devices a federally mandated access security standard originally meant for desktops and laptops, American Security Today reported Thursday.

The revised handbook incorporates feedback from the first draft and features additional sample implementations for the Derived Personal Identity Verification Credentials System, a variant of the PIV system designed in response to a 2004 presidential directive that sought to standardize access security mechanisms in federal agencies.

The original PIV system involved the use of PIV cards, which required card readers typically found in desktop and laptop computers, but not on mobile devices like tablets and smartphones.

The DPC System replaces PIV cards with “tokens,” which can take the form of software, removable components like SD cards, or integrated hardware.

The NIST, which published the handbook in partnership with the National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence and several participating firms, is inviting the public to further improve the document by providing feedback via email.

The agency, which has called on interested parties “to share lessons learned and best practices,” will be accepting comments until Oct. 1.

Air Force Lt. Gen. VeraLinn “Dash” Jamieson, deputy chief of staff for the service’s intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, has said the military branch’s future ISR architecture could include hypersonics, spaced-based sensors and drone swarms, C4ISRNET reported Wednesday.

Jamieson said in a Tuesday interview that the future ISR grid could feature a “balanced portfolio” of persistent and stand-off weapons capabilities.

She also discussed the Air Force’s new flight plan that details the service’s ISR goals in the next decade and the role of artificial intelligence in the analysis of data derived from sensors and other systems.

“If you are not first in developing artificial intelligence and the means to employ — with structured data, with the infrastructure to support that, with a multi-cloud approach — you’re going to be last because catch up in this arena with disruptive technologies, it’s too hard and it’s too fast,” Jamieson added.