<P>54The Military Engineer L January-February L 2010 Q Q QQ tions to the right place at the right time on the battle?eld. Our geospatial engineer units will play an increasingly large role in help- ing our Army manage our geospatial databases and war?ghting functional areas to jointly manage the common operating picture. The geospatial en- terprise requires data producers, data managers and analysts as well as com- mand and control. Engineers—particu- larly geospatial engineers—have a huge mission ahead of them, one that I am sure they will meet and master. Will AGC get involved with the use of geospatial information that is being used in the master planning and management of Army installations? If so, how? AGC is involved today. Our geospa- tial information supports installation management, as well as logistics train- ing, range, and modeling and simula- tion activities. AGC data are available to support Army installations and other operations—all one needs is a Common Access Card to utilize many of our re- sources. AGC also is considered a Geo- spatial Knowledge Center for the Army, and we invite our soldiers and members of our joint services to take advantage of our assets and expertise. An example of our support to Army installations lies in our relationship with the Defense Installation Spatial Data Infrastructure (DISDI) of the Of?ce of the Under Secretary of Defense for In- stallations and Environment (I&E). The AGC Imagery Of?ce (AIO) and DISDI have initiated a partnership to support commercial imagery requirements for the Department of Defense (DOD) I&E community. This partnership will le- verage the business practices AIO has utilized in commercial imagery acqui- sition and dissemination for more than 15 years. DISDI is the geospatial oversight pro- gram responsible for leveraging spatial information across I&E business mis- sion areas to better manage global in- stallations and bases. Using the Global Information Grid, DISDI develops stan- dards and policy to enable the sharing and interoperability of high-quality geospatial data at all levels of installa- tion management. DISDI—comprised of people, policies and practices—en- sures the I&E geospatial information infrastructure is aligned with DODs net-centric data-sharing strategies and business transformation goals. How is geospatial information changing, and how might these changes impact our warfighters and installations in the future? Today, most functional areas collect spatial and temporal data to their own unique data standards. Some are propri- etarily linked to either hardware, software, or both. This leads to a massive geospa- tial back of?ce comprised of separate stovepipes. Attempts to translate those data—and con?ate them among stove- pipes—are expensive, time consuming and, in a war zone, overly frustrating. The tool of choice today in our war zones for sharing geospatial understanding among functional areas boils down to a common tool, PowerPoint, which must be recreat- ed mostly from scratch for each decision and event. What has changed is that Army lead- ership understands the problem and has organized a Geospatial Governance Board, created a Geospatial Informa- tion Of?cer and staff on the Army Staff, and reorganized USACE with a Major Subordinate Command—the AGC—to make this change happen. It involves all parts of the Army and will take some time to ?x. The initial Army geospatial policy is in ?nal coordination with both the Department of the Army and Army Secretariat concurrence. The time has come for all to realize that we are partners, team members with ev- ery other part of our defense and intelli- gence communities, and we need to start acting like it with our data and informa- tion systems. We owe it to those sacri?c- ing their lives to defend our nation. How is the Army acquiring the talent necessary to support these revolutionary changes? Is there a special career field? The Army has both a Warrant Of?cer MOS (215D Geospatial Informa- tion Technician) and an enlisted MOS (21Y Geospatial Engineer) that perform these functions. In addition, the U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command is assessing the level of geospatial train- ing required for all of our soldiers. We are living in a sharing world—geospa- tial is a key part of that. What does the future hold for geospatial intelligence and AGC? We live in exciting times. It will take us some time to create a coherent geo- spatial enterprise. As we do, costs will be reduced and ef?ciency will increase— giving our soldiers, Marines, sailors, airmen and special operators a terri?c advantage over their adversaries. Solu- tions are here today, and it is possible to accelerate development, acquisition and deployment. To do so, we need a team effort and an acceptance of dra- matic change. I am proud of what the Army is do- ing and prouder yet of our partners in the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, U.S. Marine Corps and Special Operations Command who are on this journey with us. 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