Joint Metoc Handboo - IHMC Ontology and Policy Management

3-JTF HQ METOC Support
management and storage, information management, computers, communications,
applications, security, people, training, and support. The DII is managed by the
Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) under the sponsorship of the Joint Staff.
The DII architecture encompasses the Joint Technical Architecture (JTA), DII
Common Operating Environment (COE), DISN, GCCS, and GCSS. The Joint
Technical Architecture (JTA) mandates the technical standards and specifications
required for interoperability among systems within the DII. The DII COE provides an
open systems development and operating environment for information systems within
the DII. The Global Command and Control System (GCCS) and Global Combat
Support System (GCSS) are systems within the DII COE. The Defense Information
System Network (DISN) is the global telecommunications infrastructure that provides
end-to-end information transfer and value-added network services. The DISN
architecture provides an integrated network service to meet all DoD requirements for
voice, video, and data communications. The DISN includes the Secure Internet
Protocol Router Network (SIPRNET).
• Global Command and Control System (GCCS). The GCCS is a global C4I system that
is robust, reliable, interoperable, secure, responsive, and survivable. It presents
essential information to the warrior whenever and wherever the warrior directs. It
enables the warrior to synchronize actions. The following general description is from
the Joint Staff J6 Joint C4 systems description document. The GCCS:
- Provides a fused, near real-time, true picture of the battlespace
- Provides open, modern, client-server systems
- Provides real-time battlefield awareness to commanders
- Uses sensor, intelligence, and plans data as principal input
- Uses an evolutionary acquisition strategy
- Has core functions, to include: crisis planning, force deployment, force status, air
operations, intelligence, message handling capability, METOC and narrative
information
- Consists of three elements: core common software, common standards, and CINC
unique software
- Composed of ongoing service C4I modernization programs
- GCCS METOC Applications. With DISA’s fielding of the Joint METOC Segments
(JMS) and Tactical Forecast System (TFS) in GCCS 3.0, the first METOC
segments are available within the DII COE for use by joint METOC personnel.
These segments ingest gridded, observational and imagery data for processing and
display in the joint mapping and visualization segment. The significance of these
segments is twofold: first, the segments provide systems (e.g., GCCS) within the
DII COE the capability to display METOC products in the situational awareness
picture. Secondly, the Applications Programming Interfaces (APIs) used by the
segments are available to other segment developers so that METOC data can be
fully integrated in mission support applications (e.g., satellite vulnerability, joint air
defense planning, UAV mission planning). The APIs are based on WMO
communications formats for binary data exchange (GRIB and BUFR). These
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