Geospatial Intelligence Support to the Warfighter

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Geospatial Intelligence Support to the Warfighter
Enabling the Last Tactical Mile

• Mr. Irv Buck
• Deputy Military Executive
• 4 May, 2005

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Topics

• What is GEOINT and why is it important?
• How does GEOINT contribute to the fight?
• GEOINT --- National / Operational / Tactical
• Bridging the gap to the tactical environment
• A proposed way ahead
• How can you help?

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Geospatial Intelligence
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Geospatial Intelligence Sources and Products
National
Elevation (SRTM and DTED )
Commercial
Controlled Imagery
Qualified Feature Data (Country Databases)
Hydrographic Safety of Navigation
Airborne
Aeronautical Safety of Navigation
Hydrographic
Digital Point Positioning Database
Intelligence Analysis
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GEOINT Goes to War

• Threat Analysis
• Indications and Warning
• Enemy Order of Battle
• Intelligence Preparation of the Battlefield
• Terrain Analysis
• Maneuver and Mobility
• Cover and Concealment
• Intervisibility/Line of Sight
• Modeling and Simulation
• Force-on-Force Modeling
• Virtual and Constructive Simulation
• Individual and Crew Training

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GEOINT Goes to War (cont.)

• Command and Control
• Blue Force Tracking
• Visualization of the Battlespace
• Foundation of the COP
• Safety of Navigation
• Aeronautical Information
• Hydrographic Data
• Transportation/Logistics Management
• Force Protection

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GEOINT Goes to War (cont.)

• Mission Planning/Mission Rehearsal
• Optimum Path Routing
• Threat Avoidance
• Terrain Masking
• Target Recognition/Familiarization
• Navigation and Guidance
• Autonomous Terrain or Image Aided Navigation
• Digital Nautical Charts and Cockpit Map Displays
• INS Initialization and Correction

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GEOINT Goes to War (cont.)

• Precision Strike
• Target Development
• No Strike Analysis
• Time-Sensitive Targeting
• Coordinate-Seeking Weapons Guidance
• Post-Strike Assessment
• Mission Execution
• Course of Action Development
• Battlefield Visualization and Familiarization

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GEOINT Dependent Combat Systems(a 2015 sampler)

• Joint Mission Planning System (JMPS)
• F-22/F-35
• Future Combat System (FCS)
• Small Diameter Bomb (SDB)
• Joint Command and Control (JC2)
• Joint Semi-Automated Forces (JSAF)
• Virginia Class SSN

These systems will not work without accurate,
timely GEOINT data
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GEOINT in a Rapidly Evolving Warfighting
Environment
Yesterday
Tomorrow
Imagery on Film Paper Maps and Charts NTM and
EO Reconnaissance Deliberate Planning On-the-Shelf
Readiness Inside the Beltway Client-Server
Architecture

• Digital Imagery
• Digital Geospatial Information
• NTM, Commercial, Airborne
• (all spectrums)
• Persistent Surveillance
• Dynamic Ops tempo
• Just-in-time Production
• Robust Forward Presence
• Web-enabled Environment

GEOINT is evolving to meet these needs.up to a
point
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Traditional Imagery Mapping Environment
NATIONAL GEOSPATIAL-INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
UNCLASSIFIED
IMAGERY
Dissemination Hard Wired for Speed and Security
Time Dominant Factor
INTELLIGENCE
GEOSPATIAL
TLM
Dissemination Variable DLA, CDs, Tape, Firewire
Accuracy Dominant Factor
CIB
DPPDB
DNC
IMC
CADRG
Know the EarthShow the Way
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Evolving GEOINT Environment
NATIONAL GEOSPATIAL-INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
UNCLASSIFIED
Below the Line Architecture Limited to
Non-existent
IMAGERY
INTELLIGENCE
Time Accuracy

• Currently Satisfied
• by Brute Force Effort
• NGA Deployer 30 Mil FY 05
• Firewires
• GEOTIFFS
• Theater Library (GIL/AFGPL)
• GBS
• Eagle Vision

SPEC OPS
TST
HVT
C2
FP
Know the EarthShow the Way
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The National System for Geospatial Intelligence
MIDB
Data Connection Capabilities
Feature Data
Maps Charts
Imagery
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NSGs FutureArchitecture
Geospatial Data
Commercial Imagery
National Imagery
Theater Imagery
Data Center Consolidation
GeoScout Portal
National Regional Data Centers
Demarcation Line?
DoD Theater Networks Comms, Storage, Web Services
Last Tactical Mile
Intelligence Command Control
Operations
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How is NGA Supporting the Warfighter Now?
Deployed Personnel and Systems
20 Teams
OCONUS 51 CONUS CENTCOM HQ PCS 47 Total
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Bagram 4 CJTF-76 CJSOTF-A
Kabul 2 CFC-A
IZ 20 MNC-I 1 ID I-MEF ISG Embassy
Qandahar 3 TF BRONCO
BA 8 CFMCC GIL

Special Ops
QA 7 CENTCOM FWD CFACC CFSOCC FWD
5 Various
Djbouti 2 CJTF-HOA
20 Teams As of Dec 2004 During Spring 2003
26 Teams with 85 OCONUS
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Our Challenge(OSD, JCS, Services, Commands NGA)
Define, Design, Fund, Build, Operate, Staff, and
Maintain the Below the Line GEOINT
Architecture -Preferably a Joint, Interoperable
Architecture

• Major Issues
• Information what, where, how much, how fast
• Standards data sharing and interoperability
• Access storage, discovery, retrieval and value
  adding
• Communications bandwidth, availability, reach
• Exploitation common, easy to use tools
• TTPs joint doctrine, common processes
• Training CSA, service, command staff on same
  vector
• People NGA, services, commands, contractors
  together
• Governance inclusive community management

How do we pull all this together into a Common
Way Forward?
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On-Going Efforts

• Army/TEC
• Urban Tactical Planner
• GGOSC
• USAF
• Geospatial Product Library
• Firewire Dissemination
• JFCOM
• J-GES (with TRADOC)
• GIDM (with SOCOM)
• RD3-JSAF
• EUCOM/PACOM
• Theater Terrain Data Bases

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On-Going Efforts (cont.)

• STRATCOM
• Command Geospatial Architecture
• GEOINT SWARF
• NRO
• Teets Last Tactical Mile Imagery Initiative
• WARP/EQUIS Upgrades
• NGA
• GIL/IGIS
• MIGS/QRMP/NDCS
• Forward Deployed Personnel
• Center for Geospatial Intelligence Standards
• GEOSCOUT

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Proposed Way Ahead

• Lets Understand the Problem
• In-depth Joint requirements analysis
• Joint Architecture development
• Information management
• Dissemination/exploitation at the tactical level
• Joint Doctrine
• Joint Staffing
• Extending the NSG
• Lets Demonstrate We can Solve the Problem
• Build a test bed
• Do it NOW!
• Leverage ongoing Initiatives
• Operational requirements for OIF
• Geospatial Intelligence to the Warfighter
• Last Tactical Mile Imagery
• Urban Operations Support

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Proposed Way Ahead (cont.)

• Lets Jointly Manage the End-to-end Problem
• Its not just an NGA Problem
• Its not just a Service Problem
• Its not just a COCOM Problem
• Its a Community Problem
• The Intelligence Community Plays Through NGA
• The OPS Community has No Voice

We need to build a strong Joint OPS/Intel GEOINT
community!
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Joint GEOINT Architecture Demonstrator
LIDAR
GBS NDCS IRIDIUM
LIDAR
JIOC-I
MNF-I (30th TOPO)
NGA/JWAC
Data Assessment
JSAF
SIPRNET Value added loop
Firewires
USAF GBLs
Iraqi Govt.
Paper
Falconview
Falconview
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WHAT NEXT?

• Build a Governance Structure to Make it Happen
• NGA JFCOM
• Service participation
• COCOM input
• Acquire Necessary Resources
• Leverage existing staff
• NGA NST and Reachback team
• JFCOM, J-2, J-8 staff?
• USATEC? Other service staff?
• Additional NGA participation?
• Contract FTEs
• R D dollars to test bed
• Put Somebody in Charge
• Senior (SES, O-6)
• Neutral, respected
• Foot in NGA and JFCOM
• Empowered to make decisions and recommend policy

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NATIONAL GEOSPATIAL-INTELLIGENCE AGENCY