NGA

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NGA Exercise Support
Briefed on behalf of NGA Exercise
OfficeOMSE) Dave Cook [phone]
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Contents

• Mission Statement
• NGA Exercise Support
• FY08 Highlights
• Current Initiatives
• Supported Exercises
• OMSE Organization

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NGA Exercise Support Program

• MISSION The Exercise Support Branch manages NGA
  support to joint, service, and interagency
  exercises to enhance GEOINT readiness of the NSG.
• FUNCTIONS
• Manage the NGA exercise program to ensure
  appropriate GEOINT inclusion in DoD and IC plans
  and operations
• Acquire command, agency, and internal NGA
  exercise requirements to coordinate a
  comprehensive exercise plan
• Provide agency-level management over NGA
  participation in joint, coalition, and
  interagency exercises to ensure fiscal resource
  accountability
• Develop a concept of operations (CONOPS) for each
  exercise to ensure appropriate use of NGA
  resources, manpower, and knowledge
• Coordinate across the Agency to ensure the
  appropriate GEOINT support
• Execute exercise support to ensure incorporation
  of GEOINT for our mission partners plans and
  operations
• Collect and report NGA exercise lessons learned
  to evaluate GEOINT utility in programs supported
  by the NSG

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NGA Exercise Support Program

• How we provide support
• Coordinate support for 18-20 exercises per year
• Project management of Exercises
• Liaison with NST/COCOM/National Agencies
• Coordinate policy/releasability issues
• Scripting for exercise scenario support
• Coordinate manning requirements
• Coordinate collection requirements
• Pre-exercise product generation
• Collect Lessons Learned

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NGA Exercise Support Program

• FY08 Highlights
• MRX support for pre-deployment
• GWOT support to SOCOM Able Warrior series
• Expanded use of AGI
• COCOM collection management evaluations
• NGA internal exercise COLD START

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NGA Exercise Support Program

• Current Initiatives
• Enhancing analytic training
• ICP/GEOINT FSP
• Mini-Ex assessments
• Encouraging collaboration and teaming
• Intellipedia
• NGA Portal websites
• Commercial imagery
• Promoting accessible GEOINT
• MRX partnerships
• Source ONIR

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NGA Exercise Support Program

• Annually Supported Exercises
• Mission Rehearsal Exercises (MRXs) (Unified
  Endeavour Series / JFCOM)
• COCOMs
• PACOM (Terminal Fury, UFG, Key Resolve)
• EUCOM (Austere Challenge)
• SOUTHCOM (PANAMAX, Integrated Advance)
• NORTHCOM (Vigilant Shield, Ardent Sentry,
  National Level Exercises, TOPOFF)
• CENTCOM (see MRX)
• AFRICOM (no requirements yet)
• STRATCOM (Global Lightning, Global Storm)
• SOCOM (Able Warrior Series)
• JFCOM (see MRXs above)
• TRANSCOM (supported directly by deployed NGA
  analysts / no OMSE play)
• NGA Internal Exercise Program (COLD START)

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NGA Exercise Program Office OMSE
Jim Cummins [phone] Internal Exercises
LTC Williams MRXs and Internal Exercises
Robert Murphy [phone] NORTHCOM and DHS
MAJ Bae MRXs and Internal Exercises
Steve Reno [phone] SOCOM and MRXs
Gil Rios [phone] MRXs
Mark Darder [phone] PACOM
Lee Mitchell [phone] Internal Exercises
Dave Brookman [phone] EUCOM Dave Kasten
(outgoing)

Exercise Personnel Government 7 Military
2 Contractors 2
Denotes September arrival
NOTE DSN prefix is 653 for Reston-3