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Enabling Mission Partners – a success story

Tracy Toutant

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• United States Coast Guard

– Supported through the NGA Support Team to the Department of Homeland Security

• Leverage existing USCG accomplishments• Enable strategic and tactical personnel• Provide support, training, and technical expertise

Enabling A Mission Partner

A picture is worth a thousand words…

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• Focused on analysis• Assist in the creation of organic capabilities• Promote the use of geospatial analysis • Support multiple mission areas of the USCG

The Self-Service GEOINT Initiative

Necessity is the mother of invention…

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• Small team of embedded analysts• Create guides and training materials• Provide technical support• Advise and assist in liaison role

The Self-Service GEOINT Initiative

Teachers open the door, but you enter yourself…

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• Guides are the focal point of the SSG Initiative

• Focused on real-world tasks

• Step-by-step workflows for analytic products

• Widespread support from field units

The Self-Service GEOINT Guides

Teach a man to fish…

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• Custom Training Program

– In USCG Schoolhouse

• Uses real USCG Data and examples• Introduction to GIS with hands on practice• Serve as a resource for other training• Fiscally conscious approach• Aims for awareness and familiarization – not experts

The Self-Service GEOINT Initiative

Practice makes perfect…

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• Tool Development

– Support and automate complex workflows

– Toolbars and scripts to simplify steps

– Enable sharing of workflows

– Promote server geoprocessing

The Self-Service GEOINT Initiative

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step…

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• Foster a community of users

• Share experiences and tradecraft

• Leverage existing expertise

• Networking

Importance of Community

No man is an island…

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• Enable advanced analysis• Transcend organizations and hierarchy• Create a user community• Provide technical and training support

The Self-Service GEOINT Initiative

Drop by drop fills the river…

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