Question 1

What is the Intel Layer situational awareness dashboard?

Accepted Answer

The Intel Layer is a real-time global situational awareness dashboard that combines multiple live intelligence feeds on an interactive 3D globe. It displays commercial air traffic, satellite orbits, seismic events, weather alerts, and thermal anomalies in a single integrated view. Built as a proof of concept against a client's real intelligence dashboard requirements, it uses only public data sources and does not touch any classified or controlled material.

Question 2

What data sources does the Intel Layer use?

Accepted Answer

The Intel Layer uses five public data sources: ADS-B flight telemetry for commercial air traffic, CelesTrak satellite catalogs for orbital asset tracking, USGS seismic feeds for earthquake monitoring, National Weather Service alerts for severe weather warnings, and NASA FIRMS for thermal anomaly detection. All sources are public, unclassified, and freely available.

Question 3

How does the Intel Layer handle data source failures?

Accepted Answer

The Intel Layer implements per-source integrity monitoring that fails loudly rather than silently. When a data source goes down, the interface explicitly shows the failure state rather than displaying stale or missing data without warning. This is a core design rule: a source that fails says so. The system never asserts a state the scene does not have.

Question 4

What design principles guide the Intel Layer interface?

Accepted Answer

The Intel Layer follows four design rules. Color is semantic and red is reserved for threat to life. Nothing renders below a legibility floor. Extrapolated data is always marked as such. A control never asserts a state the scene does not have. The overarching goal is that a qualified stranger must sit down cold and work within one minute.

Question 5

What technology does the Intel Layer use?

Accepted Answer

The Intel Layer is built with three.js for 3D globe rendering, satellite.js for orbital calculations, and vanilla JavaScript for application logic. PHP feed proxies handle CORS for external data sources. The interface uses no framework and no build step, keeping the system lightweight and maintainable.

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