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It calls for achieving full spectrum dominance focused on four operational concepts: dominant maneuver, precision engagement, focused logistics, and full-dimensional protection as enabled by information superiority, innovation, and increased joint, interagency, and multinational interoperability. January 31, 2003 (http://www.dtic.mil/jv2020/jvpub2.htm)
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Although few military planners would trade knowledge about the distribution and intent of enemy forces for improved environmental understanding, failure to acknowledge the importance of environmental conditions has played a role in many failed military operations that were otherwise well planned and executed. To aid in the development of an investment strategy to enhance the value of METOC contributions to battlespace awareness, the Office of the Oceanographer of the Navy and the Office of Naval Research (ONR)
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Many previous efforts by the National Research Council focused on specific environmental processes of concern to naval forces or advocated specific actions to better understand or characterize those processes. While some discussion of those issues is appropriate, this report focuses more extensively on underlying the philosophies needed to determine when and how to improve environmental information.
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Like many entities with an operational focus, the naval METOC enterprise has evolved to operate on very short production cycles. At present, different information for various geographic areas of concern is distributed over multiple sources, many of which are identified by various METOC officers "in stride" as reports are developed for various customers in response to real-time requests.
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and elsewhere to expand efforts to make intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance information and data with environmental content more accessible to the METOC community. Expanded efforts should be included to remove unneeded or particularly sensitive nonenvironmental content, thus reducing security risk while making the environmentally relevant information or data acquired during intelligence-gathering, surveillance, and reconnaissance efforts more accessible to the METOC community.
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, and the Naval Oceanographic Office (NAVOCEANO) jointly develop a strategic plan for data acquisition over the next 10 to 20 years that prioritizes geographic regions of focus; incorporates an understanding of the limits of environmental information currently available to the METOC community for various regions; and evaluates such technologies as distributed databases, advanced information data-mining techniques, and intelligent agent technology for enhancing environmental information for priority areas.
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Since data collection resources are limited and because the cost of data acquisition in denied areas can be very high, methods for establishing data collection efforts and the research and development that support data collection platform development should be focused using objective criteria. The Office of the Oceanographer of the Navy and CNMOC should invest in the development of formal and rigorous methods for identifying high-priority data needs that are specific to the platforms and missions to be involved in any potential naval action.
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Navy continue to drive the need for environmental information in coastal areas where access is frequently denied.2 Efforts to improve secure, low-profile communications, reduce the risk to personnel in coastal areas from chemical and biological agents (either from the tactical deployment of weapons of mass destruction by enemy forces or the destruction of such weapons by friendly forces) , and provide accurate assessments of atmospheric conditions during the planning and implementation of strike missions have placed a greater emphasis on coastal meteorology.
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Providing specific advice for improving the overall performance of the METOC enterprise is therefore difficult. A review of various DOD and Department of the Navy guidance documents, however, does suggest that, in order to keep pace with changes now being undertaken by the operational Navy and Marine Corps, the METOC community needs to reexamine many of its core approaches in a more systematic manner.
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The growing need for integrated and organic environmental information systems to support weapons systems and small naval units will further stress a system that relies on interpersonal relations to maximize success. Furthermore, in order to more fully capture the benefits of improved measures of environmental uncertainty and the cost of that uncertainty, operational commanders need to more fully understand the accuracy of environmental information provided to them.
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U.S. Naval Forces in general, and the METOC community in particular, should take advantage of the concept of environmental uncertainty in more formal and recognized ways.
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