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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Operational Functions Wireless / Med

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Reliable / High

B/W Comms Wireless / Low

B/W Comms

Special Operations

Orders

Reports

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Collaboration 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

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OFFICER

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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

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Joint FS

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Messaging

Doc Mgmt Workflow

Hardware OS

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Secu

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Office Apps

AirC2IS

LC2IS MCCIS

SOF FS

Intel FS

LOGFS

SR FS

CBRN FS EW FS

TOPFAS

T&E FS

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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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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

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GD&I Store

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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

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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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