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Navy/USMC

PACOM Can Meet Only 10 Percent Of Its ISR Needs, Commander Says

By Marc Selinger

Thursday, April 27th, 2017

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PACOM Can Meet Only 10 Percent Of Its ISR Needs, Commander Says

Navy Adm. Harry Harris, commander of U.S. Pacific Command. (File photo courtesy of U.S. Pacific Command)

U.S. Pacific Command (PACOM) falls far short of the intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) assets it needs to keep close tabs on potential adversaries in its area of responsibility, according to PACOM’s commander.Only about “a tenth of my requirements are fulfilled,” Navy Adm. Harry Harris testified before the Senate Armed Services Committee April 27. “I don’t have what I need. I don’t have the ability to persistently watch my adversaries all over the Indo-Asia-Pacific -- over half the globe --…

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