Global Information Grid Services and Generation of the Mobility Common Operational Picture

Abstract

The Global Information Grid (GIG) is emerging as the next-generation architecture for military command, control, communications, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance information made available as discoverable and callable services to the spectrum of users, software agents, and software systems. To meet information needs of operational commanders, data and services available in the GIG will be composed to create a Common Operational Picture (COP), defined in Joint Publication 3-0 as “a single identical display of relevant information shared by more than one command” to facilitate collaborative planning and situational awareness. One area of the COP of particular interest to land warfare decision-makers is representation of the ground mobility characteristics of the battlespace from which warfighters can assess the ability of forces to maneuver effectively under multiple environmental and tactical conditions. We term this portion of the COP the Mobility COP.