GTP IT Update The Geospatial Way Ahead

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GTP IT UpdateThe Geospatial Way Ahead

• presented to
• Army CATTMIC
• 26 May 2004

Ms. Karen Ruppe Team Lead
This briefing is UNCLASSIFIED
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Overview

• Background of Geospatial Transition Plan
  Implementation Team
• GTP IT activities update
• Army Issues
• Geospatial Intelligence Project Korea (GIP-K)
  participation
• Future Combat Systems requirements
• Army Geospatial Data Integrated Master Plan
  development
• Joint Geospatial Enterprise Service (J-GES)
• GTP Status Report
• Mission-Specific Data
• TEM
• Prototype Development
• Summary

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Geospatial Transition Plan Implementation Team
(GTP IT)

• Established in January 2002 to facilitate GTP
  implementation across the community
• Honest broker between NGA and the community
• Communications are key to GTP IT success
• Regular meetings with community GIS Officers
• Technical exchange meetings and tiger teams to
  develop Mission-Specific Data
• Other documents, briefings, meetings, and
  instructional material
• Provide community updates on GTP implementation

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GTP IT ActivitiesArmy Issues (1 of 2)

• Geospatial Intelligence Project Korea (GIP-K)
• Providing staff support to develop a
  Foundation-based Operations (FBO) CONOPS to
  successfully demonstrate and prove the readiness
  responsiveness concept
• Providing staff support to help develop a GIP-K
  engagement plan
• Producing MSD prototypes in time to support UFL05
  exercise
• Future Combat Systems
• NGA is assisting Army in refining geospatial
  intelligence requirements for FCS
• Most rigorous requirements driving NGA future
  systems development

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GTP IT ActivitiesArmy Issues (2 of 2)

• Army Geospatial Data Integrated Master Plan
  (AGDIMP)
• NGA has helped build and coordinate the
  development of the Master Plan
• Joint Geospatial Enterprise Service (J-GES)
• NGA is participating in this Army-sponsored JFCOM
  effort to develop standardized formats,
  architectures, data structures, and common core
  software capabilities for the military Services.

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GTP IT Activities (cont.)GTP Status Report

• GTP is a coordinated community CONOPS Master
  Plan published in August 2001
• CONOPS remains valid Status Report provides an
  update on Master Plan geospatial initiatives
• Status Report
• Updates parts of the CONOPS
• Shows fully coordinated funding status across the
  agency

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GTP IT Activities (cont.)GTP Status Report

• Key chapters include
• Foreword
• Directors view introduction to the document
• Introduction
• NGA and community changes since 9/11/01
  production strategy, technology advances, future
  system requirements, etc.
• Status of Implementation
• Provides status of initiatives section by section
  to correlate with GTP
• Addresses new and future technology applications
• Provides amplification on Mission-Specific Data
• Appendix 1 GTP Roadmap update
• Provides funding status of each GTP Ranked
  Requirements List (RRL) initiative plus any
  initiatives related to GTP implementation

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GTP IT Activities (cont.)Mission-Specific Data
(MSD)

• Intensified Foundation Data with greater detail
  (density and resolution) or additional features
  and/or attributes to meet specific mission
  requirements.
• The stated future warfighter requirement
• A validated Service requirement for future
  systems
• A critical element of Foundation-based operations

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MSD Where We Are
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MSD - What We Have Done/Are Doing
Littoral
Ground
Urban
Aero
Ocean
Mission Environments
Conflate many representations of a single feature
into one representation for that feature at each
MSD Level
MSD Level 1
MSD Level 2
Unified Profile for MSD
MSD Level 3
Derived from five disparate environment profiles
MSD Level 4
MSD Level 5
Five Levels of Resolution
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MSD - Where We Are Going Unified Profile of MSD
A Subset of the Larger Data Architecture

• MSD Levels 1 through 5 are subsets of NGA Profile
  and DIGEST FACC
• They represent established points along the
  continuum of a common profile that establishes an
  Integrated Information Environment for vector
  feature data

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MSD Status of Actions

• MSD Pilot production over Norfolk, VA complete
  and sent out to customers for review in Feb04
• MSD TEM (22-26 March 2004) a significant
  coordination event to finalize MSD 13 and
  formulate the basis for specification development
  of MSD 24
• Participants included NGA, Army, Navy, Air
  Force, Marines, Coast Guard, CIA, JFCOM
• NGA representation included expertise from
  aeronautical, maritime, and topographic areas
• Reviewed and validated thousands of coding
  combinations to develop an attribute scheme for
  tactical MSD
• Tiger Team Meetings ongoing aeronautical and
  hydrographic data content specification
  development

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MSD Prototype Development Plan(Feature Component)
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Practical ExampleA Feature Represented at
Different MSD Levels
BRIDGE Bridge Ref. No. 2342656 Use Road
Bridge No. of Spans 2 Width 20M Length
300M Overhead Clearance 10M UnderBridge
Clearance 40M Load Class 5 Short Tons
Depending on the MSD Level required to support
the mission, a feature such as a bridge may
not be shown, or it may be represented as a
Point feature
Area feature
Line feature
LOW FIDELITY
Cost Time to Produce
HIGH FIDELITY
MSD Level 1
MSD Level 2
MSD Level 3
MSD Level 4
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Summary A Recap

• Director, NGA fully supports the GTP and our
  coordinated efforts
• Status Report printed and being sent out to
  customers
• NGA committed to MSD prototype production

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We must get MSD right to fight tomorrows
battles, enable transformation, and support the
Future Force