Inclusion criteria describe evidence that can establish this activity. Exclusion criteria identify circumstances that do not establish it on that basis alone. The evaluation remains connected to its taxonomy version and supporting evidence.
Included when supported
Evidence may support involvement when it matches one or more of these inclusion criteria.
- 01Criterion
Include military-specific reconnaissance and surveillance sensors, payloads, mission systems, and integrated ground or command systems.
- 02Criterion
Include military signals-intelligence, communications-intelligence, electronic-intelligence, and measurement-and-signature-intelligence systems or services.
- 03Criterion
Include geospatial-intelligence, military imagery, mapping, change-detection, and analytical products specifically developed or materially configured for military intelligence or operations.
- 04Criterion
Include target acquisition, identification, tracking, fire-control support, battle-damage assessment, sensor fusion, and targeting-data systems.
- 05Criterion
Include military human-intelligence support, intelligence-case management, secure-source systems, and operational intelligence tools specifically designed or materially configured for armed-force or defence-intelligence use.
Excluded on this basis alone
These circumstances do not establish this activity unless separate evidence also meets an inclusion criterion.
- 01Criterion
Historical-Only Military ISR or Targeting Involvement
Defined as: Entities with verified past development, supply, integration, operation, or material support of qualifying military intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance, or targeting systems, where reliable evidence establishes that the qualifying activity has fully ceased, been divested, transferred, dismantled, terminated, or otherwise ended and no current qualifying involvement remains. Historical-only activity does not qualify as current involvement. Preserve the historical record separately with the activity period, effective cessation or transfer date, relevant entity, product, programme, facility, or contract, and supporting evidence. Absence of recent evidence alone is not sufficient to establish cessation.
- 02Criterion
Exclude systems whose qualifying function is electronic attack, jamming, deception, or electronic protection.
- 03Criterion
Exclude malware, exploits, spyware, and other offensive-cyber or covert-intrusion capabilities.
- 04Criterion
Exclude broadly available commercial earth observation, mapping, analytics, market data, and geospatial services without a military-specific product, configuration, contract deliverable, or analytical role.
- 05Criterion
Exclude civil, border, emergency, commercial, or law-enforcement surveillance without a documented military-specific deliverable.
- 06Criterion
Exclude generic cameras, sensors, processors, data, cloud, software, and information technology without dedicated integration into a qualifying military ISR or targeting system.
- 07Criterion
Exclude complete aircraft, vessels, unmanned platforms, and spacecraft solely because they carry an ISR payload; classify the complete platform separately and apply this screen only to an independently evidenced ISR-system role.
Evidence and evaluation methodology
How sources, entity pathways, decisions, qualifiers, and review history are handled.
Map screens to a client policy
How to choose provider screens, document coverage, and decide what happens after an outcome.