Climate and Energy Implications
for Maritime and Cross-Domain Operations
A U.S. Southern Command
Perspective
Mr. John Perez
Program Manager, Joint Capability Technology Demonstrations
USSOUTHCOM Science, Technology, and Experimentation Division
23 March 2010
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USSOUTHCOM Area of Focus
Map: Library of Congress Geography & Map Division
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Different Requirements –
Different Approaches
• “Hard Power”
Threats
• “Soft Power”
Challenges
• Smart Power:
• Strong Relationships
• Interoperability
• Science & Technology
Background map: Google Earth / Google Inc.
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Traditional Maritime Cooperation
CTF Pacific – PANAMAX 09 / U.S. Department of Defense
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Non-Traditional Maritime Challenges
SPSS Interdiction / U.S. Department of Defense
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Soft Power Challenge Factors:
Climate, Energy, Water, & Food
Direct links:
• Humanitarian Assistance
and Disaster Relief
• Mass Migration
Associated impacts:
• Smuggling
• Fisheries violations
• Oil theft
• Illegal immigration
• Drug trafficking
• Human trafficking
• Environmental degradation
• Piracy
• Terrorism
• Criminal activity
• Etc.
Potential Catalysts for Instability
Post Hurricane Dean damage survey – TSgt Sonny Cohrs / U.S. Air Force
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Humanitarian Assistance /
Disaster Relief
Haiti HA/DR Activities / U..S. Navy Photos (4)
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“Environmental” Refugees /
Mass Migration
Intercepted Migrants in the Windward Passage - PAS2 John Edwards / U.S. Coast Guard
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Domain Awareness
MIRADOR USV and sensor displays / USSOUTHCOM
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Presence & Flexibility
LCS-1 USS FREEDOM – LT Ed Early / U.S. Navy
STILETTO – José Ruiz / USSOUTHCOM
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Renewable Energy: Alternative Fuels
• Fuels tested on multiple platforms
• Bio-Diesel production
• Fuel made from natural and
waste sources
Boat – U.S. Coast Guard : HMMWV – DoD ; Silver Fox - BAE Systems
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Renewable Energy: Solar
• Rigid and
flexible panel
technologies
• Various support
structures and
control modules
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Renewable Energy: Wind
• Co-generation experiment
• 1kW each from wind and
solar
SolarStikTM unit / Solar Stik Inc.
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Renewable Energy: Rivers
• Micro-hydro
turbines
• Must consider
water diversion
issues
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Renewable Energy: Biomass
• Installed two 50kW biomass
gasification systems at military
base
• Energy performance met all
metrics
• Infrastructure requirements
hindered mobility potential
• Required extensive training
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Deployable, Distributed Essential Services:
e.g. Clean Water
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Bottom Line…
Climate and Energy Considerations both
Drive Requirements and Shape the Mission
Google Alerts
Google Earth
Alerts
Geospatial Notifications
Facebook
MyMSN
iGoogle
Link any/all
content to a
geographic
location
Info Feeds
Support RSS
and Atom feeds
Babelfish
SA
Translation
Desired Capabilities
SA
Situational Awareness
CC
Connect and Collaborate
SN
Social Networking
NC
Net-Centric
Items in italics are examples of
similar functions used today.
Social Info
SA
On demand, MultiLingual, Machine
Translation
SlideShare,
Box.net, Google
Docs
Receive content
MySpace
updates as they
occur
Network and connect
manage personal
profile: skills, contact
info, languages,
Outlook,
organization, etc
SA
CC
CC
CC
Digital Content
Create blog posts,
upload / download
common file types. View/
tag and share content.
Email
SN
CC
CC
CC
Calendar
Create events and
associate them with
location, attendance
list, documents
Outlook, Google
Calendars, iCal
Integrates with internal
email or external account
Text Messaging
Send info to/from
cell phones
Chat
CC
VoIP
Hotmail,
Gmail
Multi-User;
Internal &
External
Telephone-like voice
communication over the
Internet
Skype, Google Talk
Twitter
MSN
Messenger,
Google Talk
• Situational awareness is a
prerequisite
• Presence & projection
requires agility and efficiency
• Renewable energy is
increasingly important
• Need deployable, distributed
essential services
• Must integrate across
domains
• Information sharing =
key enabler
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