Title: NGA
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NGA Exercise Support
Briefed on behalf of NGA Exercise
OfficeOMSE) Dave Cook (703) 735-2931
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2Contents
- Mission Statement
- NGA Exercise Support
- FY08 Highlights
- Current Initiatives
- Supported Exercises
- OMSE Organization
3NGA Exercise Support Program
- MISSION The Exercise Support Branch manages NGA
support to joint, service, and interagency
exercises to enhance GEOINT readiness of the NSG. - FUNCTIONS
- Manage the NGA exercise program to ensure
appropriate GEOINT inclusion in DoD and IC plans
and operations - Acquire command, agency, and internal NGA
exercise requirements to coordinate a
comprehensive exercise plan - Provide agency-level management over NGA
participation in joint, coalition, and
interagency exercises to ensure fiscal resource
accountability - Develop a concept of operations (CONOPS) for each
exercise to ensure appropriate use of NGA
resources, manpower, and knowledge - Coordinate across the Agency to ensure the
appropriate GEOINT support - Execute exercise support to ensure incorporation
of GEOINT for our mission partners plans and
operations - Collect and report NGA exercise lessons learned
to evaluate GEOINT utility in programs supported
by the NSG
4NGA Exercise Support Program
- How we provide support
- Coordinate support for 18-20 exercises per year
- Project management of Exercises
- Liaison with NST/COCOM/National Agencies
- Coordinate policy/releasability issues
- Scripting for exercise scenario support
- Coordinate manning requirements
- Coordinate collection requirements
- Pre-exercise product generation
- Collect Lessons Learned
5NGA Exercise Support Program
- FY08 Highlights
- MRX support for pre-deployment
- GWOT support to SOCOM Able Warrior series
- Expanded use of AGI
- COCOM collection management evaluations
- NGA internal exercise COLD START
6NGA Exercise Support Program
- Current Initiatives
- Enhancing analytic training
- ICP/GEOINT FSP
- Mini-Ex assessments
- Encouraging collaboration and teaming
- Intellipedia
- NGA Portal websites
- Commercial imagery
- Promoting accessible GEOINT
- MRX partnerships
- Source ONIR
7NGA Exercise Support Program
- Annually Supported Exercises
- Mission Rehearsal Exercises (MRXs) (Unified
Endeavour Series / JFCOM) - COCOMs
- PACOM (Terminal Fury, UFG, Key Resolve)
- EUCOM (Austere Challenge)
- SOUTHCOM (PANAMAX, Integrated Advance)
- NORTHCOM (Vigilant Shield, Ardent Sentry,
National Level Exercises, TOPOFF) - CENTCOM (see MRX)
- AFRICOM (no requirements yet)
- STRATCOM (Global Lightning, Global Storm)
- SOCOM (Able Warrior Series)
- JFCOM (see MRXs above)
- TRANSCOM (supported directly by deployed NGA
analysts / no OMSE play) - NGA Internal Exercise Program (COLD START)
8NGA Exercise Program Office OMSE
Jim Cummins (703) 735-2941 Internal Exercises
LTC Williams MRXs and Internal Exercises
Robert Murphy (703) 735-2943 NORTHCOM and DHS
MAJ Bae MRXs and Internal Exercises
Steve Reno (703) 735-2950 SOCOM and MRXs
Gil Rios (703) 735-2945 MRXs
Mark Darder (703) 735-2944 PACOM
Lee Mitchell (703) 735-2946 Internal Exercises
Dave Brookman (703) 735-2933 EUCOM Dave Kasten
(outgoing)
Exercise Personnel Government 7 Military
2 Contractors 2
Denotes September arrival
NOTE DSN prefix is 653 for Reston-3