Enabling ARSOF Mission Command Through C5I

COL Chris Eubank22 April 2015

U.S. ArmySpecial Operations Command

AGENDA

• ARSOF Goal• Thoughts on Mission Command from Senior Leaders• ARSOF SIE Strategic Plan• SOF Information Environment (SIE)• SIE Infrastructure• SIE Deployed Operational Architecture• SOF‐CF Mission Command and Interdependence• Questions

ARSOF Goal:  It is the goal of ARSOF to create an architecture that supports the operator anywhere in the world on any device. We look to accomplish this by providing equipment sets that are agnostic in every sense and our acquisition process allows us to accomplish it.

ARSOF Goal

Thoughts on Mission CommandFrom Senior Leaders

• Future Operating Environment (FOE) does not lend it self to large footprints• ARSOF: Purveyors of a Unique form of Warfare (violence)• Operational Approach is Shifting (at the policy level)

• By, With, and Through• Building Partner Capacity, Train and Equip, RAF

• Army needs a standing Hybrid Mission Command HQ capable of waging these campaigns in the FOE that is defined by asymmetric/unconventional threats

• What are the gaps/seams in SOF‐CF Mission Command Systems? • Enroute MC• ISR COP• Ringtail• CPOF• DCGS

ARSOF SIE Strategic Plan

The SOCOM J6 VISION:

Once Force, One Environment. The expeditionary SIE provides accessto required resources from anywhere on the globe and is the critical enabler toachieve the SOF 2020 Vision - a globally networked force of SOF, Interagency,Allies and Partners able to rapidly and persistently address regionalcontingencies and threats to stability.

The USASOC G6 VISION:

Provide global ARSOF with a secure, agile, adaptable, and reliableportfolio of computing, mobile, and network solutions to meet their uniquerequirements across all environments and throughout all operational phases.

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SOF Information Environment(SIE)

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Spans from the COCOM HQ to the individual SOF operator in the fieldSTRATEGIC

5 x SOCOM Strategic Entry Points (SSEP)Gateways to SIE from DISN; other Networks

6 x Media PortsContract supported termination points forSOF tactical systems

2 x Distributed Data Centers (CDC)1 x Global NETOPS Center (SOF EOC)

OPERATIONAL1 x SOCOM Mobile SSEP 115 x Garrison locations at Componentand TSOC locations

4 Theater Network Control Centers 2 Component Network Operations Centers

TACTICAL1178+ SOF Deployable Nodes (SDN)

Direct support to Real World, Exerciseand Training missions

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SIE InfrastructureGlobal Enterprise

‐Media Port

‐ Distributed DataCenter

LEGEND

- STEP/TELEPORT

‐RSC‐TNCC/CNCC/SSEP

TNCC SWA

Buckner STEP

Landsthul STEP

Fucino MP

Usingen MP

Adelaide MP

TNCC AFG

Ramstein STEP

Lago STEPTNCC PAC

TNCC Stuttgart

CNCC USASOC

GNCC(DDC2)

(DDC1)

Wahiawa STEP

Paumalu MPGeorgia MP

Telecity MP

CNCC AFSOC

Paumalu MP

F – Ville MP

Wash. MP

Northwest STEP

‐Aligned NETOPS areas of responsibility: Regional and logical‐TSOC/Component J/G/A 6 responsible and capable to NETOP AOR‐Tiered permissions tied to OU structure to enable AOR control w/out impacting other OU or enterprise‐SOF EOC: peer w/GEOC  TNCCs: SA w/EOCs

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SOF‐CF Mission Command and Interdependence

• Why?• How do we enable it?• What are the common technologies?• What have we done to date?

USASOC G6

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US Army Special Operations Command