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GIS As A Platform For Special Forces
John Day
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Facilitating
Communication
and Collaboration
Breaking Down Barriers
Between Institutions,
Disciplines and Cultures
Integrating and
Synthesizing Information
from Many Sources
…Supporting The Highly Dynamic Nature of Special Operations
Multi-Intelligence/ All-Source Integration
Decision-Making Process
Intelligence/ Operations
Convergence
GIS Is About Integration
Supporting Individuals, Groups, and Organizations
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Integrating All Types of Information – Beyond Maps
GIS Normalizes The Variety of Information Needed for Special Operations Missions . . .
. . . And Makes Them Accessible Widely
Imagery
Databases Services Sensor
Networks
Big Data
Spreadsheets Maps
Social Media
ArcGIS for Special
Operations
ArcGIS for the Special Operations
Planning
Operations
Management
Mounted
Dismounted Provisioning
Intelligence
Operations
Server
Data Management, Analysis and Planning, Field Mobility, & Situational Awareness
Staff Products
Services
Mobile Apps
WebApps Desktop Apps
Operational Environment
Content
Operations Content
Role of the Server
GIS
Server
Managed Content
Apps
Data
Appliance Feeds
AOR / Responsibilities / Feature Functionality
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Orders
Operational Functions Wireless / Med
B/W Comms
Reliable / High
B/W Comms Wireless / Low
B/W Comms
Special Operations
Orders
Reports
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Collaboration Reports
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Reports
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Protection
Communications
Future Operations
Civil Affairs
Fires
Transforming The Special Operations Force
Operations Room
Plans COMMANDING
OFFICER
FIRES
INTELLIGENCE
SUSTAINMENT
PROTECTION
LIAISON
TACTICAL
Intelligence
INTEL
OFFICER
INTEL
WARRANT
OFFICER
INTEL
ANALYST
INFORMATION
MANAGER
WATCHKEEPER
Information Superiority for all Missions
Operational Environment Template for Managing for understanding environment
Support for vectors, rasters, images, elevation data
… and increasingly for high-resolution urban data
Intelligence Analysis Map Templates
To support the ISR Process
Helicopter Landing Zones Beach Landing
Military Aspects of Terrain
Military Aspects of Weather
Incident Analysis
Operations Planning Map Templates
To support the Operations Process
Lodgement Area
Range Cards
Military Planning Overlays
Target Engagement Area
Vehicle Check Point
Mobile Operations Application Templates
Squad Leader (Android)
Vehicle Commander (Linux)
Ground/Air/Maritime
Case Study:
NATO Core GIS
NATO CORE GIS Objective
Enables “fighting off the same map”
providing timely, accurate, and guaranteed
geo(spatial) information to the NATO coalition
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Sites Serving Geospatial Data
Mission: Geospatial Collaboration
at the strategic and operational levels.
JWC Stavanger, NOR
ACT Norfolk, USA
ACO Mons, BEL
Joint HQ Lisbon, PRT
JALLC Montesanto, PRT
NCISS Latina, ITA
JFC HQ Brunssum, NLD
CC Mar Northwood, GBR
CC Air Ramstein, DEU
CC Land Heidelberg, DEU
JFC HQ Naples, ITA
CC Mar Naples, ITA
CC Air Izmir, TUR
CC Land Madrid, ESP
KFOR
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Joint FS
GIS
Messaging
Doc Mgmt Workflow
Hardware OS
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Secu
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Ser
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Office Apps
AirC2IS
LC2IS MCCIS
SOF FS
Intel FS
LOGFS
SR FS
CBRN FS EW FS
TOPFAS
T&E FS
COP Environment.
Storage Virtualization
Portal
Data Mgmt
Discovery
Directory Registry
Communications Services
Other NATO C2 Systems National C2IS CRO C2IS
Gateway Services
Use or potential
use of GIS
technology
Use of
CORE GIS
NATO Network Enabled Capability (NNEC)
Core Services
Functional Services
Case Study:
GIS and
the US Army
Geospatial
Enterprise
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Inte
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JWICS
SIPR
CX-I Mission Net
Command Post
NIPR
Content Management
Globe / Data/
Services SSGF DATA
and UPDATES
Disconnected
Data Center Computing Environment
Mounted
Mobile
Sensor
Real Time/Safety Critical
Disconnected
Local SSGF Store
GD&I Store
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GD&I Store
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Globe
Other
SSGF DATA and
UPDATES
US Army Geospatial Enterprise Data Flow
National
Data
Sources
Army
Data
Centers
Army
Command
Posts
Army
Mobile
User
Systems
Army
Sensors
Intelligence/Operations Synchronization
US Army Geospatial Enterprise (AGE)
Planning
COP Mounted
Dismounted Provisioning
Intelligence
Common
Geospatial
Server
Sensors
Data Management , Analysis and Planning, Mobile and Situational Awareness
Geospatial Toolkit for
Embedded command and control systems
Multi-intel
component
of command
and control
In-Vehicle
Hand-Held
A Standard and Sharable Geospatial Foundation (SSGF)
Conclusions
• Data Management
• Analysis and Planning
• Mobile Operations
• Shared Situational Awareness
Analysis
Tradecraft
Intel
Production
Apps on Standard Clients
Content
Catalog
Groups
Hosting
Apps
Maps
Services
Cloud Content Management
The GIS Platform Brings It All Together How We Create, Share, and Leverage GeoIntelligence
HUMINT
Open Source
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SIGINT/IMINT
Collection Operations
Ground and
Airborne
Distributed Geospatial Services
Big
Data
RDBMS based
Multi-user / Department
File-based
Single user
Services oriented
National / Infrastructure
GEOINT
Network based
Installation wide / Enterprise
Capabili
ty
GIS & Special Operations
An Evolution of Technologies…
All Source
IMINT
OSINT
SIGINT
HUMINT
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