Intelligence support element

Definition
An intelligence support element (ISE) is

"[a] tactically tailored intelligence support team, uniquely configured commander's intelligence staff with assured communications, automated intelligence processing, and communications networks needed to support the commander's decisionmaking. The intelligence support element (ISE) is not a permanent organization, specific unit, or specific quantity of equipment. If the ISE is the forward element of the analysis and control element, it is normally the foundation on which a full analysis and control element is formed, after the lodgment is secured and subsequent operations begin."