Aerospace C2 Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Center

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Aerospace C2 Intelligence, Surveillance and
Reconnaissance Center
C2 Training and Innovation Group Hurlburt Field,
Florida
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Overview

• Problem Statement
• JEFX experiences
• Lessons Learned
• Way Ahead

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Problem Statement

• Determine requirements for and sufficiency of
  collaboration environment to support AEF concepts
• small forward footprint
• distributed operations
• reachback to conus centers of excellence
• Transition to warfighters

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Overview

• Problem Statement
• JEFX experiences
• Lessons Learned
• Way Ahead

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CT Deployment for EFX98Infrastructure
CT Primary SCI Server
AOC Forward
SCIF
JWICS
CT Backup Server
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SATCOM
AOC Rear
SCIF
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JFACC Enroute
Duke
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CT Alt. Backup Server Multicast Hub
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SATCOM
CT Primary Server
Langley
GBS
Collaboration Web Server
NOSC
JWICS
EOC
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BTS Mez
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SATCOM
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SCIF
Eglin
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Langley
Hurlburt
609 IOC AFIWC AIA AIA TDC (Backup Server)
EOC Enroute
JWICS
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CT Backup SCI Server
CUBE
TBA
AFWA
AF SOC
AMC/TACC
Kelly
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JWICS
Pentagon
Hanscom
Offutt
Vandenburg
Scott
VPN over SIPRNET Outside EFX Firewall CT clients
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JEFX 99 Collaboration Environment

• Description
• Distributed, collaborative Air Operations Center
  with 3 primary sites and 21 fixed, afloat and
  airborne locations
• Two tools used
• Collaborative Virtual Workspace (CVW)
• InfoWorkSpace (IWS)
• Supported 1600 accounts, averaging 300
  concurrent users
• Used for preparation of Air Tasking Orders, daily
  Commander briefings, coordination of Air
  Operations Center activities

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JEFX 99 Collaboration EnvironmentThe Virtual Air
Operations Center (AOC)

• Team members
• Room content
• Text chat
• Audio
• Video
• Whiteboards
• Sharable documents
• Web Access
• Paging

Capabilities of Virtual Rooms
Virtual CFACC Staff Floor
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Examples of CT Usage during EFX
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• JFACC Briefing
• Two daily briefings to JFACC, attended by 80 (as
  high as 97) distributed users (Rear, Forward,
  Sites) in 2 virtual rooms
• CT Web objects in the JFACC Briefing Rooms were
  linked to PowerPoint-in-HTML briefings located on
  the Collaborative Web Server
• CT was vehicle for enhanced situation awareness -
  users could view briefings asynchronously
• ATO Football
• Process and vehicle for assembling ATO inputs
• CT notes were used for workflow checklists
  (intra- and inter- team) and coordination sheets
• CT folders were the vehicles for assembling the
  component files and for passing each football
• CT enabled the concurrent passing of multiple
  footballs

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Examples of CT Usage During EFX
(Pg.. 2 of 2)

• Sharing screen shots, checklists, imagery, maps,
  etc.
• CT whiteboards were used to keep certain TBMCS
  and other screen displays available in various
  virtual workspaces ready for quick reference,
  collaborative discussions and group annotation
• Pre-built CT whiteboards were formatted as
  collaborative action item checklists, for
  example, the Joint Search and Rescue Incident
  Checklist
• Hotlists
• CT user groups, assembled by individual operators
  and carried in their CT briefcases enabled rapid
  access to that group of key personnel for
  immediate
• document dissemination
• warning and assembly notification
• crisis action

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Summary of CT Usage and Impacts

• Enabled significant reductions in the ATO cycle
  time
• Enabled AOC operational process re-thinking, for
  example
• Allocation of AOC functions for optimum split
  operations
• Continuous, dynamic ATO generation
• Alternatives for preparing and presenting the
  JFACCs briefings
• Allowed flexible experimentation with changes and
  improvements to AOC support operations
• Enhanced battlefield situation awareness across
  distributed C2 elements
• Supported multiple classes of users operators,
  controllers, assessors, system providers, network
  operators, network managers, IW teams, software
  developers and helpers

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Overview

• Problem Statement
• JEFX experiences
• Lessons Learned
• Way Ahead

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Lessons Learned

• Users have adopted Collaboration Technology and
  want it fielded right now
• Must be integrated into daily work flow or its
  only used as an audio tool over IP
• Must be integrated within C2 battle management
  environment
• Develop Standards
• Define collaboration environments, tools --
  provide standards
• Develop Conops for daily and C2 operations uses
• Comm, comm, and more comm (and the correct
  network)
• Migrate collaborative capabilities and apply
  lessons learned from JEFX to training exercises
  (e.g. Blue Flags, RS, PW, UFL)
• Need to document and widely distribute lessons
  learned from EFX experience on collaboration
• Provide roadmap for selecting CTs, conducting
  rollouts, articulating factors contributing to
  successful use, etc.
• Manage expectations

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Overview

• Problem Statement
• JEFX experiences
• Lessons Learned
• Way Ahead
• CT 2000 Events
• Integration
• Standardization?

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Way Ahead -- PlannedCT Events
Mar-May
Jun-Jul
Aug-Sep
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Integration
Normal Worklife
C2 Operations
ISR
Plan
Email
E-Office Apps
Collaboration Environment
Collaboration Environment
E-Meetings
Assess
Execute
Shared Docs
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Standardization?
Joint
USN
IWS
COMPASS
USAF
USA
CVW
Netmeeting
USMC
Others
Others
OSD
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Backup Slides
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Typical C2 Infrastructure Layers
Aerospace Ops Center
Wing Squadron Ops Center
Space Mobility Ops Centers
Joint Components Ops Centers
Collaboration Services
Databases
Simulation and Instrumentation
Internal Communications Infrastructure
External Communications Architecture
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Collaborative Tools and Services
CVW JCT

• SIPRNET and NIPRNET
• Browser Access
• Internet Explorer
• Netscape
• Audio/Video over IP
• Multicast
• Unicast
• Shared Offices and Conference Rooms
• Shared File Structure - LDAP
• Shared White Boards
• Conference Center for Mass Briefings and
  Training
• Interfaces with Netmeeting, SunForum, and
  VIC/VAT

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Full C2 Spectrum Capability
Sensor
Decision Maker
Shooter
SENSOR
MCE
DECISION MAKER
COLLABORATIVESERVICES
F-15C
SHOOTER
PATRIOT FU
HAWK FU
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USAF Planned CT Fieldingthrough FY04
SIPRNET DISN LES
AFWA
USAFE
TACC
Cheyenne Mountain
AFSPACE
ACC JWAC
VICENZA
9th/CENTAF
12th AF
8th AF
JTF SWA Saudi Incirlik
AFIWC
C2TIG AFSOC 1st AF
PACAF Korea HTACC