USSOUTHCOM Capability Requirements

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USSOUTHCOM Capability Requirements:

A Science, Technology, and Experimentation Perspective

11th Annual Science & Engineering Technology Conference and DoD Tech Exposition

April 15, 2010

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Our Focus: A Diverse Region

? 1/6th of Earth's surface ? 41 countries / territories / protectorates ? 470 million people ? Varied ethnic heritage ? Multiple languages ? Full socioeconomic spectrum

Map: Library of Congress Geography & Map Division

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Challenges

Security Challenges... ? Illicit trafficking ? Crime/urban gangs ? Transnational terrorism ? Forgery/money laundering ? Mass migration ? Narco-terrorism ? Natural disasters

SPSS Interdiction / U.S. Department of Defense

...Warfighter Capabilities ? Domain awareness ? Obscured targets ? Cooperation and collaboration ? Humanitarian assistance and

disaster relief

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Science, Technology, & Experimentation

A Diverse Portfolio For Diverse Requirements:

? Experimentation (shortest term)

? International R&D (medium term)

? Technology Demonstrations (longer term)

Crisis Management IV Experiment ? John Perez / USSOUTHCOM VRMTC-A Screenshot ? Ricardo Arias / USSOUTHCOM RIO OV-1 Depiction ? RIO JCTD Integrated Mgt Team / Department of Defense

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Domain Awareness

VRMTC-A Screenshot ? Ricardo Arias / USSOUTHCOM

Spanning Air, Land, Water, Space, and Cyberspace...

? Virtual Regional Maritime Traffic Center ? Americas (VRMTC-A) ? Virtual Integrated Domain Awareness (VIDA) ? Riverine and Intercoastal Operations (RIO)

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Obscured Targets

? Foliage Penetration (FOPEN) ACTD Residuals in operational use

? DARPA FORESTER / A-160 (YMQ-18A) UAV Operational testing in progress

? NGA PENLIGHT Operational testing in progress

? RIO CWP & JCTD Key enabler ? priority program

? JMMES JCTD Integrating multiple technologies

? MASTIF ACTD Fusion engine

? AFSOUTH/IA JUNGLE CALL

FORESTER Testing (3) ? Rod Peralta / USSOUTHCOM

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Cooperation & Collaboration

Google Earth

Geospatial

MyMSN iGoogle

Info Feeds

Link any/all content to a geographic location

Babelfish

Support RSS and Atom feeds

Translation

SA SA

On demand, Multi-

Lingual, Machine

Translation

CC

Google Alerts

Alerts

Notifications

Facebook

Receive content

MySpace

updates as they

occur

Social Info

Network and connect

manage personal

profile: skills, contact

info, languages,

SA

organization, etc

Email

SN

Outlook, Hotmail,

Gmail

Integrates with internal

CC email or external account

SlideShare, Digital Content

, Google

CC

Docs

Create blog posts, upload / download

common file types. View/

CC

Desired Capabilities tag and share content.

CC Text Messaging

Send info to/from

cell phones CC

CC

Chat

Twitter

Multi-User;

Internal &

SA Situational Awareness

Calendar

VoIP

External

MSN Messenger,

CC Connect and Collaborate SN Social Networking

Create events and associate them with location, attendance list, documents

Telephone-like voice communication over the Internet

Google Talk

NC Net-Centric

Items in italics are examples of similar functions used today.

Outlook, Google Calendars, iCal

Skype, Google Talk

? Transnational Information Sharing & Cooperation (TISC) JCTD

? All-Partners Access Network (APAN)

? Cooperative Security (CS) JCTD

Host Nation

Interagency

NGO/PVO/IO

Stakeholders: ? DoD ? USG Interagency ? Partner nations

? NGOs / PVOs / IOs ? Private sector ? Individuals

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Coalition Partners

Academia

Commercial

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Humanitarian Assistance / Disaster Relief

Provide deployable, distributed essential services...

? Prepositioned Expeditionary Assistance Kits (PEAK)

USNS COMFORT off Haiti ? CMCS J.L. Chirrick / U..S. Navy USAID in Port-au-Prince ? MCS2 Chris Lussie / U.S. Navy

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