Joint Metoc Handboo - IHMC Ontology and Policy Management

3-JTF HQ METOC Support
• A "virtual" JMFU may be useful: products are produced by JTF and component
METOC personnel, or by METOC personnel located at a regional forecast center in a
rear area, and are hosted on servers at a designated regional METOC center for all to
access. Homepage (and database) management is handled by experienced webmasters
at a centralized facility.
• Joint METOC Forecast Capability (JMFC). Air Force Weather reengineering and the
concept of reachback has modified the USAF's perspective in providing or arranging
"one theater, one forecast" or "one operation, one forecast". Traditionally, the term
JMFU implies a single, forward-deployed, operational level facility. Alternatively,
JMFC focuses METOC planners on minimizing the forward-deployed footprint by
reaching back to Air Force and Navy regional centers for operational level products
and services; those centers may need joint augmentation to satisfy joint operational
requirements.
3.3.3 Meteorological Equipment.
3.3.3.1 Joint METOC Equipment.
METOC equipment available to the JTF METOC cell will vary, based on the mission and
required capabilities at the JTF HQ. Most tactical-level METOC equipment will be
located at and below the JTF component level. The JTF METOC cell at a minimum
requires computers with NIPRNET/SIPRNET connectivity and access to the Global
Command and Control System (GCCS).
3.3.3.2 Service METOC Equipment.
Brief descriptions of tactical meteorological equipment can be found in the Service
chapters of this Handbook, as well as in an Appendix of Joint Pub 3-59
(http://www.dtic.mil/doctrine/jel/operations.htm or
http://nmcc20a.nmcc.smil.mil/users/dj9j7ead/doctrine/jel/operations.htm) and the Federal
Directory of Mobile Meteorological Equipment and Capabilities, published by the Office
of the Federal Coordinator for Meteorological Services and Supporting Research
(http://www.ofcm.gov/Homepage/text/pubs_linx.htm).
3.3.4 Communications and Computers.
This section describes joint command and control, communications, computers systems,
and infrastructure. The discussion is conceptual in nature and highlights DoD's approach
toward developing joint collaboration tools the common operational picture (COP).
• The DII and Joint Technical Architecture. The Defense Information Infrastructure
(DII) provides a seamless, global, standards-based end-to-end joint command and
control architecture that provides assured, flexible and affordable information services
to the warfighter. The DII encompasses the resources to accomplish information
transfer and processing. Information transfer and processing includes data
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