Willem Treurniet

TNO Defence, safety and security

Towards providing a Netherlands national COP

Visualisation and the Common Operational Picture

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The outline

• The NL Defence Operations Centre (DOC)• The Challenges• Outline of a Solution• Conclusion and Way Ahead

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NL Defence Operations Centre (DOC)

• 24/7 joint operational staff• Responsible for planning and management of

deployments• contributions to international operations• national deployments

• ~ 70 people• J-structure

1 – Personnel2 – Intelligence3 – Operations4 – Logistics5 – Planning6 – CIS7 – Training8 – Finance9 – CIMICSO – Special Operations

1 – Personnel2 – Intelligence3 – Operations4 – Logistics5 – Planning6 – CIS7 – Training8 – Finance9 – CIMICSO – Special Operations

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Operational Process DOC (OP-DOC)

StartStart

Signalisation of a (potential) crisis, initial threat evaluation, resource inventory

OrientationOrientation ConceptDevelopment

ConceptDevelopment

PlanDevelopment

PlanDevelopment DeploymentDeployment TerminationTermination

Political position wrt military participation

Development and analysis of participation options

Fact finding, consultation, planning and tasking

Monitoring of strategic transport and deployment, contingency planning

Supervision of round-off, evaluation

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Situational Awareness

• Diversity• Source

• Deployed national units• International bodies• National systems• News-feeds, www

• Certainty• Classification level

• From national secret…• … up to public

• Medium• Appearance

• Document• Map• Image

• Information needs vary per

section and functionary• Content• Abstraction level• Aggregation level• Urgency

• Situational Awareness to

be maintained throughout

all OP-DOC phases• Historical views enabling

political account

From Means… … to Ends

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DOC Db

Systems Architecture

NLCOP

Metadata

Doc’nNL COP Portlet

LCCISView

MCCISView

ICCView

ERPView

…

LCCIS MCCIS ICC ERP …

DocMgmntPortlet

OfficeAutom.Portlet

PlanningPortlets

GroupWare

Portlet…

DocMgmnt

OfficeAutom.

(Collab.)Planning

Tools

GroupWare

…

PortalFramework(WISE)

Portlets

External and legacy systems

MissionEvent/IncidentPersonnelResourceUnitLocation…

TranslatorBoxes

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Maintaining the DOC Database

• Content of the NL-COP• Extracted from external information

systems – e.g. status and

positional information• Manually entered by DOC

personnel – e.g. assessments and

appreciations

• Content of Meta data• Classification of unstructured

documents in NL-COP terms• Manual classification time-

consuming and error-prone• Reliable automation possible?

DOC Db

NLCOP

Metadata

Doc’n

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DOC Portal:Context-sensitive navigation

• New messages/ documents

• News feed• Alerts• To-do list• Links

• New messages/ documents

• News feed• Alerts• To-do list• Links

Personalised Homepage

• Search Functionality

• Search Functionality

Documents

Resources

Personnel

Missions

Units

…

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In summary…• A national view on international operations requires

• a great number of different types of information sources• a great number of different views and perspectives

• The portal concept…• provides the desired flexibility, personalisability and visual integration• encourages incremental development (assuming adherence to portlet standards)• facilitates disclosure of legacy and off-the-shelf systems and components

• The structured part of the DOC Database can be used as a valuable index for the numerous unstructured documents

• Translator boxes are needed to automatically ‘feed’ the structured part of the DOC Database

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Way ahead

• Research activities• find a lasting information model for the structured part of the DOC

database (2004)• determine the feasibility of sufficiently reliable, automated classification

and distribution of documents (2004, 2005)

• Development activities• incremental design and implementation (2004 - 2006)• design and implementation of the translator boxes• application of NATOs IEG-concept• exploit experimentation possibilities (JWID 2005(?), …)

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Willem TreurnietTNO Defence, safety and securityThe Hague, The NetherlandsT: +31 70 374 0239F: +31 70 374 0652Treurniet@fel.tno.nl