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Real-time Collaborative
Planning
Rocket City Geospatial Conference
November 18-20, 2008
Jack Tombrella
Northrop Grumman Corporation
Real-Time Collaborative Planning
• Collaborative planning is the real-time interaction of commanders and
staffs at two or more echelons developing plans for a single operation.
• Collaborative planning systems
– Defense Collaboration Tool Suite (DCTS)
– InfoWorkspace
– Net-Centric Enterprise Services (NCES) Collaboration Services
• Traditional features
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Audio conferencing—Voice over IP
Video conferencing over IP network
Text messaging
Application sharing
Session management
Whiteboard
Challenge: Create interoperability between
disparate planning systems to enable RCP
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Vignette 1: RCP Today—Manual Whiteboard
• Two different planning systems
– Different map displays
– Different processes or user interfaces to
enter an obstacle or detour
– Different algorithms for route calculation
– Different representations of the data
• Collaboration
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Activate whiteboard
Add detour to whiteboard
GPS #1 manually inserts obstacle
GPS #2 manually inserts obstacle
Both are ready to go
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Vignette 2: RCP Interim—Loose Coupling
• Two different planning systems
– Different map displays
– Different processes or user interfaces to
enter an obstacle or detour
– Different algorithms for route calculation
– Common representations of the data
• Collaboration
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Step
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Activate whiteboard
Add detour to whiteboard
Export obstacle into each system
Both are ready to go
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Vignette 3: RCP Objective—Open Architecture
• Two different planning systems
– Different map displays
– Different processes or user interfaces to
enter an obstacle or detour
– Different algorithms for route calculation
– Common representations of the data
– Open interfaces
– Open architecture
• Collaboration
– Step 1: No whiteboard—use native maps
– Step 2: Add detour to map
– Step 3: Obstacle automatically inserted into
each system
– Step 4: Both are ready to go
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Northrop Grumman Initiatives
• Participation in DoD Community of Interest for Net-Centric Data Sharing
– Common IAMD XML Schema (CIXS)
• Open source
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GlassFish
Java SDK
PostgresSQL
World Wind
• Standardized whiteboard tools
– Military symbols 2525
– Tactical graphics
– 2D, 3D mapping capabilities
• Data compression facilitate XML transmission
– Secure wireless
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Goal: Enhanced Operational Capabilities
• Not just a whiteboard—Incorporate the results of a collaboration session
directly into each disparate planning system’s database.
• Enable more responsive and effective crisis planning due to shared view
of strengths/weaknesses and intelligence data
• Provide mission rehearsal from distributed locations.
• Extend participation in planning and situational awareness to any system
on the network.
Bringing Decision Makers Closer to Data
Gatherers
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