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What is LOCE today?. LOCE - Is a US-owned intelligence system that is directly integrated into NATO’s SECRET-level network architecture.
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What is LOCE today? • LOCE - Is a US-owned intelligence system that is directly integrated into NATO’s SECRET-level network architecture. • LOCE - A USEUCOM J2-owned Family of Systems, Services and Web-based Applications featuring over 400 workstations serving over 2700 registered, and 10,000 email users across four NATO Secret Networks • LOCE - the onlyINTRANET approved by ECJ6 to process NATO SECRET data LOCE = Linked Operations-Intelligence Centers Europe, Cronos = SHAPE WAN, MCCIS = SACLANT WAN, BICES = Battlefield Information Collection & Exploitation Systems, MOD = Ministry of Defense, IPR-DISN = Internet Protocol Routed – Defense Information Systems Network, NSLAN = NATO Secret LAN,
What is LOCE today? • LOCE - Is also the US National intelligence contribution to the NATO-nation effort called BICES • LOCE - the only US systems gateway to other NATO C4I systems • SHAPE’s Cronos, SACLANT’s MCCIS, NATO’s NIDTS, NATO HQ Minerva & NATO Nations’ BICES (National Rel NATO Networks) • Largest DoD network employing Security certificates…same technology as internet banking • Meets NATO security requirements for ID, authentication, and secure point of entry LOCE = Linked Operations-Intelligence Centers Europe, Cronos = SHAPE WAN, MCCIS = SACLANT WAN, BICES = Battlefield Information Collection & Exploitation Systems, MOD = Ministry of Defense, IPR-DISN = Internet Protocol Routed – Defense Information Systems Network, NSLAN = NATO Secret LAN,
IPR-DISN What does LOCE look like? LOCE (U.S.) NATO NATIONS SIPRNET / NIPRNET US NSLAN LOCE Info Hub MOD MOD Molesworth, UK MOD IMS MOD MOD SACLANT SHAPE SACLANT COMMANDS NATO SHAPE COMMANDS LOCE = Linked Operations-Intelligence Centers Europe, Cronos = SHAPE WAN, MCCIS = SACLANT WAN, BICES = Battlefield Information Collection & Exploitation Systems, MOD = Ministry of Defense, IPR-DISN = Internet Protocol Routed – Defense Information Systems Network, NSLAN = NATO Secret LAN,
LOCE is two things • A US SECRET rel NATO / NATO Secret Ops-Intel “virtual place to go” • Computer Servers with imagery, Intel data, SEW, secure phones, etc. at RAF Molesworth, JAC • A comms network enabling you to get “there” • Dedicated circuits for allies and NATO • Standby deployable comm/satellite suite for emergencies • “Cryptographically isolated tunnels within SIPRNET” for US users