The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency delivered a three-dimensional model of U.S. Embassy Abu Dhabi to the Marine Corps Embassy Security Group in Quantico, Virginia, April 8.
The model is a part of NGA’s support to the U.S. warfighter and specifically the MCESG, a detachment of Marines who provide physical security to embassies across the world.
NGA’s Analytic Production and Design Center Model Shop developed this model in conjunction with the Marine Corps NGA Support Team to “build a level of realism for the Marines [with] the ESG,” said Marine Corps Capt. Frank Miner, assistant operations officer, MCESG.
NGA provided two different models of U.S. embassies and is scheduled to create additional models of high threat U.S. facilities around the world based on the force protection needs of the MCESG, said Rob Alberts, Marine Corps NST chief.
Marines assigned to positions within the MCESG have a variety of backgrounds from infantry to logistics where the exposure to intelligence collection and tools isn’t very common, said Miner.
The model and the partnership with NGA has opened a new level of support and perspective for the Marines, said Capt. Joseph Ahonen, Marine Corps NST.
Marines are taught to brief off terrain models, and the models are a way to deliver intelligence the way the consumer is used to receiving it, said Ahonen.
“We used to just provide flat aerial maps, but this [the model] gives anyone from the ambassador to the non-commissioned officer in charge the same common operating picture,” said Alberts.
The model can be and has been used for situational awareness, command and control training, and facility familiarity when the MCESG prepare for training and scenarios on site, said Alberts.
“This is a way we are able to put intelligence into the hands of its users, while also creating trust and building relationships,” said Ahonen.
| Date Taken: | 05.23.2019 |
| Date Posted: | 05.23.2019 09:08 |
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