Military Operations

Network Centric Operations (NCO) represent the future for defense in which modern information technology, including ArcGIS, transforms the military into a smaller, smarter, and more agile force. GIS software is a core technology for

• Intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR)
• Command, control, communications, computers, and intelligence (C4I)
• Precision engagement (PE)

Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance—Battlespace Awareness

ArcGIS Tracking Analyst: Connect sensor to database to shooter.

GIS is a naturally integrating technology that merges data from ISR to create spatially aware databases (geodatabases) across multiple networks. Within the geodatabases, spatial context and relationships between sensors and other battlespace entities and actions are maintained, providing an integrated platform for decision makers and warfighters to better understand common operational and tactical situations.

Command, Control, Communications, Computers, and Intelligence Assessment—To Tell

The C4I domain supports timelier and better decisions by using a variety of tools to analyze, assess, and plan actions. ArcGIS bolsters C4I capabilities by providing a common spatial context and the tools to provide decision makers, commanders, and warfighters with a distributed, scalable, decision support environment.

Precision Engagement—To Strike

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PE includes the coordination of strike assets in time and space to achieve the commander’s desired effect. ArcGIS provides the information framework and tools to understand time and space activities and constraints, then assists in passing precise information to the engagement systems.

ArcGIS also provides a critical information structure that connects the concepts of NCO. This common foundation permits the spatial context of data to flow as information for ISR to C4I and as actions from C4I to PE. ArcGIS provides the framework for storage, dissemination, and exploitation of battlespace knowledge throughout the defense and intelligence infrastructure.