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(U.S. JOINT FORCES COMMAND, NORFOLK, Va. - Aug. 17, 2006) -- U.S. Joint Forces Command (USJFCOM) has continued to improve the Global Command and Control System - Integrated Imagery and Intelligence (GCCS-I3), enhancing operational commander's situational awareness of intelligence.

USJFCOM Joint Intelligence Directorate's (J2) Benjamin Hill said the Web-based secure information system provides leaders with a superior intelligence infrastructure which continually assesses threats and the nation's ability to dissuade or defeat the enemy.

"GCCS-I3 incorporates force planning and readiness assessment applications required by battlefield commanders to effectively plan and execute military operations," said Hill who acts as chief of this intelligence, plans and programs for the joint warfare concept.

Hill explained that GCCS-I3 offers users a standard set of integrated, linked tools and services which give immediate access to imagery and intelligence directly from a common operational picture (COP).

He added, "It provides COP-centric imagery and intelligence-related capabilities developed by the four military services and selected agencies in response to joint warfighter requirements."

It does this by bringing assessment and battlespace visualization abilities together, via the COP, which provides situational awareness and analysis to joint force commanders. It uses the Web-based portal to push and pull information from the various information sources.

Hill explained how this provides situational awareness. "The GCCS-I3 feed into the COP links and fuses data from multiple sensors and intelligence sources to provide warfighters the situational awareness needed to be able to act and react decisively."

GCCS-I3 also gives users the capability to integrate locally collected tactical imagery, live video stream and other intelligence with national and theater - produced intelligence.

Operational or tactical displays alongside continuously updating operational-intelligence information directly plot the intelligence, providing users vastly improved knowledge of the tactical battlespace.

According to Brian Moses, USJFCOM J2 Agile Development Branch Chief, users have a screen that offer a variety of applications within the GCCS-I3 system.

"They are looking at a blue force, red force and neutral force disposition of all contacts of interest," said Moses. "They can manipulate their data screens, they can change their mapping projections to suit their needs so the individual analyst can modify and change various information out there."

Hill said that GCCS-I3 has evolved as it has developed over the last couple of years and it "will continue to provide integrated intelligence to the joint planning and execution community and GCCS family of systems."

and they still can't find Osama...