Civil Information Management

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Civil Information Management

• 2005 Army Geospatial Conference
• MSG Tony Minor and SFC Curtis Allen
• US Army Civil Affairs and Psychological
  Operations Command (Airborne)

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USACAPOC Mission
Train, validate, monitor readiness, and prepare
assigned Active Component (AC), Reserve Component
(RC), Civil Affairs (CA), and Psychological
Operations (PSYOP) force for deployment to
conduct worldwide special operations, across the
range of military operations in support of
regional Combatant Commanders, U.S. Ambassadors,
and other agencies, as directed.
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Civil Affairs Operational Concept

• The primary functions of all Army CA units are to
  conduct CA Operations (CAO) in support of
  Civil-Military Operations.
• CA Soldiers (generalist and functional
  specialist) conduct CAO through planning,
  execution, and transition, with, by, and through
  indigenous populations and institutions (IPI),
  U.S. government agencies, international
  organizations, and other non-governmental
  organizations. CA Activities support building of
  Host Nation capacities to deter or defeat threats
  to internal stability.

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CA is More Than Just an Army Asset

• CA supports the National Security Strategy
  through the integration of both DoD and
  interagency initiatives across all elements of
  national power diplomatic, informational,
  military, and economic
• CA resources and activities can be applied across
  the strategic, operational, and tactical levels
  of operation
• These activities can take the form of Army
  Stability and Support operations, Joint Strategic
  Deterrence and Stability operations, and/or
  Interagency Reconstruction and Stabilization
  operations.
• Strengthening CA capability requires cooperative,
  synergistic effort by
• Army (DA)
• US Special Operations Command (USSOCOM)
• Joint Forces Command (JFCOM)
• Geographic Combatant Commands (GCC)
• Joint Staff (JS)
• Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD)
• Other Services and US government agencies (OGA)

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CA Capabilities/Missions

• Tactical
• Civil Affairs Teams (CAT-As), conduct civil
  reconnaissance, provide project management, and
  engage key leaders collects and disseminates
  information
• CA BN establishes Civil Military Operations
  Center (CMOC) in Support of UEx
• Provides 1st Tier Civil Information Management
  (CIM) capabilities
• Assigned Functional Specialists provide unique
  government, economic, infrastructure, and other
  key subject matter expertise
• Operational
• CA BDE Provides CA Planners/Operations Staff
  modularity (plug play) into the UEy Forward
  Command Post
• CA BDE establishes CMOC in Support of UEy
• Provides CIM Data Fusion and builds operational
  Civil COP
• Provides data layers to information and
  intelligence community
• Provides analysis of tactical civil-military
  operations as related to their effects analysis
  utilized by planners for future operations
• Assigned Functional Specialists provide unique
  government, economic, infrastructure, and other
  skills

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CA Capabilities/Missions

• Strategic
• Provide CMO Planning Teams to the COCOM CDR
  during all phases of the Battle
• Provide inputs and data layers for Cultural
  Preparation of the Battlefield/ Environment (CPE)
  during Phase 0/1
• CACOM Establishes CMOC in Support of RCC/COCOM
• Provides Strategic-Level CIM and builds
  strategic Civil COP
• Provides Strategic-level analysis of aggregate
  operational CMO
• Provides input into the Theater Campaign Plan,
  Effects Board Process
• Establishes Civil information environment ISO
  transition to NGO, HN, or civilian based
  operations
• Establishes bridging relationships between
  transition elements (NGO, HN, other) IOT allow
  for open source (OS) information transfer after
  cessation of DoD based operations

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Civil Military Operations Center (CMOC)
Functional Capabilities
Capability Functions ________ ________________
___ CMOC Combination of
operations, civil liaison, and civil information
capabilities Analyzes and
focuses Civil Common Operational Picture (CCOP)
Plans, coordinates, directs, and controls
select CMO/CAO functions in the supported
Commanders battlespace C4IM of forces
Oversight of project management Focal point
for civil-military coordination, collaboration,
and consensus
Facilitates military transition plan to
Civil Authorities Manages CIM enterprise
systems Civil Liaison Team Civil-Military
interface public face of the CMOC The
CMOCs Civil Affairs Team (CAT) Store
Front Extends physical outreach of
CMOC Civil Information Performs civil
information fusion develops and manages the
civil COP Management Cell Analytic node
for all CA sensors
Provides the product for direct
input into supported Commanders COP Provides
desensitized civil information on unclassified
networks

SUSTAINMENT
INTEL Maneuver
Civil Liaison Team
CMOC
C4IM

Civil-Info Management
Functional Specialty Cell
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The CMOC and the Role of Civil Information

• Civil Information is confused with intelligence
  by most Commanders
• Civil Information is directly linked to OSINT
  and is a required aspect of the total Intel
  picture to include IPB OPB
• DRAFT / PRE-DECISIONAL Definition
• Civil Information Raw data, gathered by or
  provided directly to military sensors in an
  organized system, with relations to persons,
  organizations, places, or things, within the
  civil component of the Commanders battlespace
  that can be fused or processed to increase DOD/
  Interagency/ NGO/ IO/ IPI situational awareness,
  situational understanding or situational
  dominance.

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Civil Information not Intelligence
Civil Information Management
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Purpose of Civil Information Management (CIM)

• Facilitate the Joint Commanders situational
  awareness, situational understanding and
  full-spectrum dominance.
• Develop the Civil COP to achieve civil
  information dominance to support Effects Based
  Operations.
• Civil Information Management must also support
• Interagency (DOS, DHS, USAID, etc)
• Coalition Partners (NATO, PFP, GWOT, etc)
• Partner/Host Nation (PN/HN/IPI)
• International Organizations (UN, World Bank,
  IMF, OAS, etc)
• Nongovernmental Organizations (Red Cross, World
  Vision, etc)
• Transition civil information enterprises to
  above organizations to support stability and
  reconstruction operations.

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CIM Desired Endstate
A capability within CA tactical / operational
elements to quickly, easily, and effectively
collect, catalog, and fuse civil component
information and create a Civil Common Operating
Picture (COP).
At the operational and strategic level, a core
capability within CA HQs elements/CMOCs at all
levels to collect and develop civil information
into a Civil COP and then fuse that information
with the supported maneuver unit at his or her
level to support effects-based operations and
targeting within the Joint Commanders
battlespace.
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Proposed Doctrinal Concept for CIM

• Civil Military Operations Center (CMOC) from
  Companies (Co) to CA Commands (CACOM) responsible
  for collecting, analyzing and fusing civil
  information into a civil common operating picture
  (COP)
• Primary CA sensors
• - Civil Affairs Teams (CAT)
• - Civilian Liaison Teams (CLT)
• - Civil Affairs Functional Specialists
• Examples of Other sensors (not all inclusive)
• - Maneuver elements (Infantry, SOF, etc)
• - Interagency
• - Coalition Countries
• - Indigenous Populations and Institutions (IPsI)
• - Commercial/Contract entities

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Proposed Doctrinal Concept for CIM (cont)

• CA has identified requirement for CMOCs to
  declassify/desensitize aggregate CAT-A reports
  for dissemination.
• CMOCs must filter reports with embedded
  classified information i.e. Key Leader
  Engagements.
• Reports reside on SIPRNET backbone
• Filtered civil information must reside on
  unclassified, accessible domains for access by
  interagency, UN, NGOs, IOs, and indigenous
  organizations.
• CA currently developing structured reporting
  models to ease filtering process
• CA as a key agent to Army Stability and
  Reconstruction Ops shall transition information
  enterprises to interagency, host nation
  agencies/organizations.

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Framework for Civil Information Grid
Information Flow
Strategic Level

• Facilitate rapid CMO decision-making
• Maximizes efficiencies of military and
  non-military resources
• Technical line of communication tied into Army
  communication backbone at the UA/UEx level
• Objective provide civil information input into
  the supported Commanders common operating
  picture
• Requirement for CMOCs to operate outside the LAN
  distance of supported unit
• Civil information management cell at each level
  fuses and redirects data up, down, and across the
  CA line of communication
• Careful analysis of the Common operating picture
  should guide the commanders project priorities
• Requires CAT to transmit data via remote
  capability
• CMOC and CMO cells are key nodes

National Level
CMOC
CMO Cell
Operational Level
Regional Level
Inter- agency
CMOC
CMO Cell
HN
IO/NGO
CMOC
CMO Cell
Local Level
Tactical Level
CMOC
CMO Cell
II
BN
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CHAMPION facilitates Joint Task Force (JTF) CI
HUMINT capabilities
J2X
COCOM
Asset Visibility Collection Mgmt Requirements
Mgmt
Joint Intel Data Fusion and Analysis
SOJICC
CMOC
others
DIA
NSA
NGA
CIFA
JSOTF
Civil Affairs
Special Operations
THT Teams
Marine Corps HUMINT
NCIS
PSYOP
CI Teams
AFOSI
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Conclusion

• Instant and continuous knowledge of the
  battlespace is invaluable to our forces.our
  communications systems and networks must focus on
  quickly and effectively sharing information and
  data among the collective team members and
  various organizational communication and command
  and control nodes.
• - Dr. Dale Uhler
• USSOCOM Acquisition Executive
• January 2005
• ----ODAs, CATs need to be linked into the
  effort.
• - Col(P) David Morris
• DCG, USACAPOC
• April 2005

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Backup
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Critical Concerns

• We are a unique capability that supports both
  Conventional and SOF forces with a majority of
  forces in the Reserves
• We will require support, training, equipping, and
  championship of preceding concepts from DA and
  SOCOM
• Current community of Interest (Info Intel)
  recognize the need for civil and cultural layers
  to be incorporated into the COP. In order for
  this to occur, information exchange needs to
  happen at the lowest level round trip to
  tactical end user.
• How is Horizontal fusion at the lowest tactical
  level required with critical focus on the end
  tactical user (CATA, ODA, THT, etc) ensured?
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• Integration with ongoing Joint/Army C4ISR
  architecture
• How is inclusion and leverage of existing
  concepts, programs, and initiatives in order to
  move forward executed?
• How do we align ourselves to an existing
  acquisition program to reduce timelines, provide
  rapid fielding?

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