Joint Metoc Handboo - IHMC Ontology and Policy Management

5 - The Senior METOC Officer
- Assign/coordinate METOC tasks as appropriate to component SWO(s) to ensure
unity of effort
- Provide input to CINC staff estimates, including Intelligence, Operations,
Logistics, and C4, as well as Course of Action (COA) development and analysis
- Begin building CINC OPORD Annex H, and inputs to Annex B (Intelligence),
Annex C (Ops), Annex K (Communications), Annex M (Geospatial Information
and Services (GI&S)), and Annex N (Space)
- Manage special METOC needs at the national / theater level: national assets, MM5
model runs from AFWA, space environment support from the 55 th Space Weather
Squadron, NOGAPS/COAMPS from FNMOC, and National Weather Service or
foreign weather service support applied to the operation/exercise
• After JTF formation:
- When identified, liaison is required with the JTF JMO. Parallel or collaborative
planning may be required. Once completed, provide your CINC OPORD Annex H
and input to other annexes to the JMO. Coordinate and assist the JMO in the
following areas as required: organization, personnel augmentation, identification
and location of component SWOs, theater and joint area of operations
communications, equipment, logistics, data requirements, products and timelines
- Coordinate climatology/real time METOC data requirements with regional and
strategic-level METOC Forecast Centers (MFCs), the JMO, and component SWOs
- Coordinate with JMO on Allied METOC support
- Develop, in conjunction with the JMO, the METOC CONOPS and Letter of
Instruction (LOI) specific to the operation, describing general guidance such as
JMFU designation, communication plans, equipment requirements, and theater
observation collection plan. The CONOPS may be included in the JTF's Annex H
- Monitor deployment status of Service component METOC assets, and
subsequently, METOC operations in the Joint Operations Area (JOA)
- Maintain awareness of operations under other staff proponency
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