TNO Defence, safety and security Willem Treurniet Towards providing a Netherlands national COP Visualisation and the Common Operational Picture

VizCOP, September 2004Towards providing a Netherlands national COP2 The outline The NL Defence Operations Centre (DOC) The Challenges Outline of a Solution Conclusion and Way Ahead

VizCOP, September 2004Towards providing a Netherlands national COP3 NL Defence Operations Centre (DOC) 24/7 joint operational staff Responsible for planning and management of deployments contributions to international operations national deployments ~ 70 people J-structure 1 – Personnel 2 – Intelligence 3 – Operations 4 – Logistics 5 – Planning 6 – CIS 7 – Training 8 – Finance 9 – CIMIC SO – Special Operations 1 – Personnel 2 – Intelligence 3 – Operations 4 – Logistics 5 – Planning 6 – CIS 7 – Training 8 – Finance 9 – CIMIC SO – Special Operations

VizCOP, September 2004Towards providing a Netherlands national COP4 Operational Process DOC (OP-DOC) Start Signalisation of a (potential) crisis, initial threat evaluation, resource inventory Orientation Concept Development Plan Development Deployment Termination Political position wrt military participation Development and analysis of participation options Fact finding, consultation, planning and tasking Monitoring of strategic transport and deployment, contingency planning Supervision of round-off, evaluation

VizCOP, September 2004Towards providing a Netherlands national COP5 Situational Awareness Diversity Source Deployed national units International bodies National systems News-feeds, www Certainty Classification level From national secret… … up to public Medium Appearance Document Map Image Information needs vary per section and functionary Content Abstraction level Aggregation level Urgency Situational Awareness to be maintained throughout all OP-DOC phases Historical views enabling political account From Means…… to Ends

VizCOP, September 2004Towards providing a Netherlands national COP6 DOC Db Systems Architecture NL COP Meta data Doc’n NL COP Portlet LCCIS View MCCIS View ICC View ERP View … LCCISMCCISICCERP… Doc Mgmnt Portlet Office Autom. Portlet Planning Portlets Group Ware Portlet … Doc Mgmnt Office Autom. (Collab.) Planning Tools Group Ware … Portal Framework (WISE) Portlets External and legacy systems Mission Event/Incident Personnel Resource Unit Location … Translator Boxes

VizCOP, September 2004Towards providing a Netherlands national COP7 Maintaining the DOC Database Content of the NL-COP Extracted from external information systems – e.g. status and positional information Manually entered by DOC personnel – e.g. assessments and appreciations Content of Meta data Classification of unstructured documents in NL-COP terms Manual classification time- consuming and error-prone Reliable automation possible? DOC Db NL COP Meta data Doc’n

VizCOP, September 2004Towards providing a Netherlands national COP8 DOC Portal: Context-sensitive navigation New messages/ documents News feed Alerts To-do list Links New messages/ documents News feed Alerts To-do list Links Personalised Homepage Search Functionality Documents Resources Personnel Missions Units …

VizCOP, September 2004Towards providing a Netherlands national COP9 In summary… A national view on international operations requires a great number of different types of information sources a great number of different views and perspectives The portal concept… provides the desired flexibility, personalisability and visual integration encourages incremental development (assuming adherence to portlet standards) facilitates disclosure of legacy and off-the-shelf systems and components The structured part of the DOC Database can be used as a valuable index for the numerous unstructured documents Translator boxes are needed to automatically ‘feed’ the structured part of the DOC Database

VizCOP, September 2004Towards providing a Netherlands national COP10 Way ahead Research activities find a lasting information model for the structured part of the DOC database (2004) determine the feasibility of sufficiently reliable, automated classification and distribution of documents (2004, 2005) Development activities incremental design and implementation ( ) design and implementation of the translator boxes application of NATOs IEG-concept exploit experimentation possibilities (JWID 2005(?), …)

VizCOP, September 2004Towards providing a Netherlands national COP11 Willem Treurniet TNO Defence, safety and security The Hague, The Netherlands T: F: