Company Movement And Assessment Tool Command Brief V5

Marine Corps Combat Development Command

Marine Corps Combat Development Command 3300 Russell Road Quantico, VA 22134-5130 3300 Russell Road Quantico, VA 22134-5130

Company Movement & Assessment Tool

(CMAT)

Command Brief

January 2012

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(U) Contents

• Situation: Tactical C2

• Intent: Why CMAT?

• What is CMAT?

• Examples of CMAT analysis

• Support

• Counterargument

• Demonstration

• Backup Slides (CMAT Users Guide)

Operations Analysis Division 2

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(U) Tactical C2

• (U) How will you train your COC to

do C2?

• (U) How will you task your patrols?

• (U) How will you collect information

in order to shape future ops?

• (U) How will you show your platoon

commanders that their efforts are

working/not working?

• (U) How will you illustrate the

changes in capabilities to your

partnered force?

• (U) How will you turn over your

battlespace?


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(U) Intent – enable planning, reporting, assessment

• (U) Purpose: to provide Company Commanders a tool to

organize their patrolling effort against COIN objectives.

• (U) Method: an Excel Workbook on a COC workstation

where patrol information is stored for analysis.

• (U) End state: Commanders posses a standard,

supportable, sustainable, tool that organizes patrol-

generated information for decision-making.


“Subordinate commanders must make decisions on their own

initiative, based on their understanding of their senior’s intent,

rather than passing information up the chain of command and

waiting for the decision to be passed down.” MCDP 1, page 78

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• (U) Purpose: to provide Company Commanders a

tool to organize their patrolling effort against COIN

objectives.


Why?

(U) Because otherwise they rely on initiative, what the last

unit did, or what they’re told to do – and this may fall short

of the answering the questions on the first slide.

(U) Because there are no C2 systems alternatives that

appropriately address this for the tactical environment

(U) Helping tactical commanders do objective assessments

is a responsibility of operations research analysts

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• (U) Method: an Excel workbook on a COC workstation

where patrol information is stored for analysis


(U) Because it requires no software installation

(U) Compatible with web-enabled C2 systems

(U) Documents are small enough to travel through bandwidth

limited pipes

(U) Excel supports validated data input

(U) Easy to use charts and graphs for trend analysis

(U) Web systems (CPOF, Google Earth, C2PC) may not be practical

in the tactical environment

(U) Text, MS Word, PowerPoint are difficult to use for analysis

(U) Web systems (MarineLink, CPOF, Google Earth, C2PC) may not

be set up to database activity

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• (U) End State: Commanders possess a standard,

supportable, sustainable tool that organizes

patrol-generated information for decision-making.


(U) Decision makers up and down the chain of command

have objective data that supports planning.

(U) Supports the relief in place

(U) Supports analysis and decision making throughout the

supporting establishment

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(U) What is CMAT?

• Company Movement and

Assessment Tool

– (U) Supports Company

Command and Control (C2)

– (U) Supports Company

Ops/Intel Cycle

– (U) Builds historic record of

activity for turnover

• (U) Microsoft Excel file

saved on workstation

• (U) Files can be uploaded

to CPOF, Google Earth, etc.

for further analysis

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This is not an additive burden!

Tactical units will be searching for a

way to do this somehow regardless.

We owe them a tool. (“Do this instead

of that…and this is what you get!”)

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(U) CMAT in the Company COC

• (U) The Company COC uses CMAT to organize patrol

reports and information.

• (U) CMAT establishes an Excel Workbook digital log of

information typically written down in a green book or a

yellow canary.

• (U) Company COC opens CMAT and records patrol

information contained in Mission Cards and Debriefs.

• (U) Information radioed up from patrol bases (voice or

data) before and after missions.

• (U) Uses pre-formatted lists and dropdown menus to

standardize locations, call signs, tasks, ratings for

partnered forces, atmospherics, and user defined

CCIRs

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(U) CMAT List Management

• (U) The information in the lists can be managed through

the CMAT Settings section. Also, the points of contact

both CONUS and deployed can adjust these lists if big

changes are necessary.

– (U) For example, if you’re training at Fort A.P. Hill and your

CMAT version only has 29 Palms GRG checkpoints, entering in

hundreds of points manually would be difficult. Use the POCs.

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(U) What CMAT is NOT

• (U) CMAT is not a C2 system

• (U) CMAT is not an acquisition program or off-the-

shelf software

• (U) CMAT is not a contracted arrangement

• (U) CMAT is not web-enabled software

• (U) CMAT does not require software installation

• (U) Does not provide geospatial analysis (GIS)

– (U) Data is exported to GIS-enabled software

• (U) CMAT is not a substitute for good reporting and

COC procedures

• (U) CMAT does not add a reporting burden! Operations Analysis Division 11

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AUP Patrol Partnering, Planning and Execution Ratings by PB

24 March to 1 June

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Ja Camp Ali Fatwan Gul UN

Overall Level of Partnering 24 March - 1 June

ANSF Only ISAF Only Joint

•82.8% of all patrols in the AO were partnered or AUP

only

•Fatwan Gul had the most AUP only patrols at 97

(29.9% of their total patrol activity)

•UN had the highest percentage of AUP only patrols

at 94 (40.9% of their total patrol activity)

•Fatwan Gul had the highest number of patrols rated

independent in planning at 51 (18.7%)

•UN had the highest percentage of patrols rated

independent in planning at 24.3%


effective with assistance or effective with mentoring

in planning at 75.7%


independent in execution at 51 (18.7%)


independent in execution at 24.3%



in execution at 75.7%

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Level of Partnering w/AUP by week 24 March - 1 June


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AUP Patrol Planning Rating by Week 24 March - 1 June

Established Developing Effective w/Assistance Effective w/Advisors Independent

CMAT automatically

generates power point

presentation with graphs (by

location and over time) with a

word picture of summary

stats for the commander to

assess the unit’s progress

and provide insight (context)

to the trends identified by

CMAT

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23 Mar 11 to 21 Apr 11

ANSF Only Patrols

22 Apr 11 to 23 May 11

ANSF Only Patrols

23 Mar 11 to 21 Apr 11

USMC Only Patrols

22 Apr 11 to 23 May 11

USMC Only Patrols

Example of CMAT output data displayed in IDAPT Density map Comparing 2 time periods on Range220 at 29 Palms

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(U) The Counterargument

• (U) “Great tool, but we don’t need another system

that doesn’t talk to the others.”

– (U) CMAT is not a system, but establishes a standard

way of collecting information. Electronic notebook.

– (U) Interfaces with Palantir and CPOF

• (U) “This is a reporting drag on companies.”

– (U) CMAT directly benefits the company by maintaining

patrol activity and debriefs in digital format.

– The tradeoff is the ability to quickly answer RFI’s

• (U) “This is too sophisticated.”

– (U) No web connection, FSR, software download, or

money.


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(U) Who we’ve talked to

• Operating Forces

• EWS

• MCTOG

• C2 ID

• CAOCL

• C2TECOE

• Combat Hunter

• Marine Corps Intel

Schools

• Marine Corps Systems

Command

• TTECG

• MCWL

• PP&O

• Military Operations

Research Society

• Center for Army Analysis

• JIEDDO

• MCTSSA

• Palantir

• CPOF Developers

• Microsoft Operations Analysis Division 15

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Testimonials

From RCT-1 AAR:

• (U//FOUO) “There needs to be a standardized system or system

of systems supporting command and control to ensure

commonality and understanding across the service. The

current systems are also far from being expeditionary. The

RCT staff participated in numerous exercises during PTP which

prepared them fundamentally to employ the systems but not for

the scope of the architecture with connections to over 100

locations."

• (U//FOUO) Units down to the platoon level operated

COCs, often with little to no training on how to

establish or run one. During training, Marines should

occupy a forward operating base (FOB) replicating

how they would live and function while they are in

country.”


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Testimonials

• 2/6’s AAR on EMV:

“Bottom line, use EMV as an opportunity to refine IM plan and validate, not a venue to

build an IM Plan from the ground up.”

• 1/8 Company Commander:

“Thank you for all of your help and effort. I know this will make us smarter on the

battlefield.”

• 1/8 CLIC/COC Marines:

“We see and understand the potential of this product. We envision the possibility of

making the CMAT program an SOP for all Marine Corps forward operating forces

(especially Infantry battalions). By marrying this analytical database with the

operations side of the house, we see endless possibilities…..

• Palantir FSR:

– “From the data you provided we ingested 4,677 patrols occurring between 01APR and

03DEC. 16,240 grid references were associated (mostly CPs, LPs, and SPs). I'm

excited to do some further analysis of this data based off of IED emplacement

times...knowing when the last friendlies traversed the site is the holy grail!”


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Testimonials

• From the CO C/1/9:

“You truly have been combat enablers to the

Marines of Chaos Company 1/9…the virtues of

(CMAT) compromise the core of (watch chief’s

turnover to the oncoming watch officers/chiefs.”

• From the Watch Chief of C/1/9:

“We used CMAT as our patrol tracker database.

This tool allowed us to input data for each patrol

to include the areas covered and any SIGACTS

that occurred in our battle space.”


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Marine Corps Tactical Systems Support Activity (MCTSSA) Engineering Evaluation (Dec 2011)

• “CMATs enforcement of standardized entry assures data is

stored cleanly and consistently, facilitating the employment of

the tools and techniques used in analysis of properly formatted

spreadsheet data. Further, CMAT incorporates some of the

most complex aspects of working with and manipulating MS

Excel workbooks and consolidates them into a UI that someone

with even the most basic computer skill level can operate

effectively. Widespread use of CMAT by units in theater would

enhance the collection, analysis, and turnover of critical patrol

information. As such, it is recommended that CMAT be made

available to units through some central means such that they

can easily obtain and implement CMAT into their standard

operating procedures for recording the conduct of patrols.”

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What is Next?

• CMAT is hosted at http://www.mctssa.usmc.smil.mil/

• Plan to transition program to PG-11 at MarSysComm

and C2ID for incorporation into future systems

• Planning for data consolidation and information

management

• Research and analysis on existing data, for ongoing

work and future programs.


http://www.mctssa.usmc.smil.mil/

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UNCLASSIFIED Operations Analysis Division 21

Primary Maj John Wray NIPR: [email protected] SIPR: [email protected]

VOSIP 308.357.7109

DSN 318.357.6980

Alternate Maj John Bancroft

NIPR: [email protected] SIPR: [email protected]

VOSIP 302.278.4115

Comm 703.432.8560 DSN 378.xxxx

Alternate Maj Dan Zappa

NIPR: [email protected] SIPR: [email protected]

VOSIP 302.278.4115

Comm 703.784.4115 DSN 278.xxxx

Alternate Mr. Doug Hoffman

NIPR: [email protected]

SIPR: [email protected]

VOSIP 302.378.8556

Comm 703.432.8181

For questions or comments on CMAT, use the following points of contact

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BACKUPS


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Part 1: CMAT Settings.


• Geographic Reference Points

– Start locations: Patrol bases, FOBs, COPs

– Checkpoints: Compound & building names, LZs, etc.

• Customized metrics to meet the commander’s needs

• Call signs

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Gridded Reference Graphics and CMAT


• Gridded Reference

Graphics provide

sector identifiers as

well as compound

numbers with

associated 10 digit

MGRS

• This data will auto-

populate CMAT to

quickly and accurately

record which

checkpoints the patrol

visited

• Ex: Compound B in

sector K5 =

11S MS 12345 67890

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Adjust Start Location List

• 1. Select “Adjust Start Location”

• 2. Select “Add” or “Delete

Location”

• 3. Select Unit, Type Start

Location Name, Type in 10 digit

MGRS with grid zone Identifier

(ex. 11S MS)

• 4. Select Submit


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Adjust Checkpoint List

• 1. Select “Adjust Check point

List”

• 2. Select “Add” or “Delete Entry”

• 3. Select Unit (Battalion and

Company) , Type “Checkpoint

Name,” Type in 10 digit MGRS

with grid zone Identifier (ex. 11S

MS)

• 4. Select Submit


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Adjust Commander’s Information Requests

• 1. Select “Adjust Commander’s

Information Requests”

• 2. Select “Add” or “Delete Entry”

• 3. Enter the question you want

the patrols to answer

• 4. Select if the question will be

“Mandatory” or “Optional”

• 5. Select the Unit (Battalion and

Company) that the question will

be answered by

• 6. Select “Submit”


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Part 2: Data Entry and Changes


• Enter Patrol from Scratch

• Change Previously Submitted Patrol

• Enter Mission Card for Planned Patrol

• Enter patrol From Previously Filled in Mission Card

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Mission Cards and CMAT

• Company COC manages CMAT on desktop

• Prior to departing friendly lines, patrols complete Mission

Card

– Patrols cannot leave wire without providing mission card info to

Company COC

• Mission Card information is sent from Patrol Base to

Company COC

• Either by voice or data burst over the radio

• COC enters Mission Card data into CMAT (2 methods)

• Post mission, patrol sends additional debrief data to

COC.

• COC completes the appropriate data fields.


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Process of Data Input For CMAT: Mission Card vs Patrol from Scratch

• Two choices for patrol data input for CMAT:

– Mission Card for Planned Patrol

– Patrol from Scratch

• Mission Card method puts the patrol data in

“holding” until mission is complete

– Company COC reopens the mission card at

patrol’s completion and submits the mission

card after mission debrief data is sent

– Mission Card is then automatically discarded

and the patrol is added to the database

• Patrol from Scratch method allows user to enter

patrol data at beginning of patrol and then “Save

Incomplete Patrol Report” until mission debrief is

complete

– Mission will not be added to the database

until the mission is submitted as complete


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Enter Patrol from Scratch Initial Input

• Select “Enter Patrol From Scratch”

• 1. Select “Battalion, Company and

Call Sign”

• 2. Select type of patrol:

“Mounted/Dismounted/Combined”

• 3. Select “Patrol Activity” (Up to 3)

• 4. Select the “Number of

Personnel” from each category

• 5. Select if there were SigActs to

report (Yes or No).

• 6. Select “Time Out (Hour and

Minute)”

• 7. Select “Date Out”

• Select “Next,” “Save Incomplete

Report,” or “Cancel”


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Enter Patrol from Scratch (Ctn’d) SigAct Information

• If you select that you have a SigAct to

report (on the previous menu) then there

will be a SigAct Info Menu to fill out

• 1. Select Yes/No for “Was there a TIC?”

– A. If so “# of Direct Fire / # of IDF

Events

– B. Friendly Action in response to TIC

(did you withdraw, proceed without

responding or neutralize the threat)?

– C. Did you use Air Support?

• 2. # of IED Attacks

• 3. # of IED Finds

– A. IED Method of Detection (Up to 3)

• 4. # of Friendly KIA

• 5. # of Friendly WIA, and level of severity of

each injury

• 6. # of Enemy KIA

• 7. # of Enemy WIA

• 8. # of EPW

• 9. # of CIVCAS


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Enter Patrol from Scratch (Ctn’d) Conduct of the Patrol

• 1. Start Location and District

• 2. a. Points Patrolled (up to 12)

• 2b. Atmospherics observed at

those each checkpoint

• 3. Type in Op Name

• If Joint, select whether ANSF

element are on the ground,

with the patrol or in overwatch.

• Rating of ANSF for Planning

and Execution of the Patrol

• 4. Additional Comments

• 5. Return time (Hour and

Minute)

• 6. Select Return Date

• Select “Submit Completed

Report,” “Save Incomplete

Report,” or “Cancel”


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Enter Patrol from Scratch (Ctn’d) Patrol Summary

• Patrol Summary Verifies all

data you input and gives

quick stats on patrol:

Duration, distance covered

• This reporting format does

not remove the requirement

to report SigActs in CIDNE

or other required databases

• Patrol receives unique

identifier

• Select “Ok” or “Modify this

Patrol” to adjust the data

you input

• Can also “Show Details” if

the initial Patrol Summary

does not give you enough

info


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Mission Card for Planned Patrol Data Entry

• Similar format to “Enter

Patrol from Scratch”

– CMAT will save Mission

Card which can be open

after mission completion by

the “Enter patrol From

Previously Filled in Mission

Card” for editing and

submission

• After submitting the patrol

the Mission Card will no

longer be available for

editing


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Enter Patrol From Previously Filled in Mission Card

• Select “Enter patrol From

Previously Filled in Mission

Card’

• 1. Select “Start for the filter”

to find the Mission Card

• 2 . Select “End date for the

filter”

• Select “Next”

• 1. Select the record you wish

to modify from the dropdown

• Select “Modify Selected

Patrol”

• Edit Mission Card with Patrol

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Change Previously Submitted Patrol

• If after submitting a patrol,

the COC realizes there is

an error with the data, the

COC can re-open the

patrol and update the data

• Select “Change Previously

Submitted Patrol”

• Select Date Range

• Select the record you wish

to modify from the

dropdown

• Edit patrol


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Part 3: Data Management and Analysis.


• Save CMAT: “Save As” for archive and management.

• Close CMAT (exit the document)

• Run Analysis

• Output Patrol Data to New Workbook

• Output Mission Card Data to New Workbook

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• Run Analysis Button

• Charts and graphs

• Statistics on performance

– # of patrols during given time period

(broken down by unit, type, start point,

etc)

– # partnered versus unpartnered (%

breakdown of composition)

• Trend analysis

– Changes to the composition of patrols

(USMC, Partnered, HN)

– Changes to the capabilities of partnered

force particular to planning and execution


Part 3: Data Management and Analysis.

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Data to Assessment Products

• On demand, user pushes a button that

generates PowerPoint slide-show

– Displays charts and graphs

– Text boxes to record additional context

• Units can email CMAT Excel files to analysts as

needed for further study/analysis.

– Would be done according to SOP or when higher

units needed it.

– Company to battalion, battalion to RCT, etc.


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AUP Patrol Partnering, Planning and Execution Ratings by PB

24 March to 1 June

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Ja Camp Ali Fatwan Gul UN

Overall Level of Partnering 24 March - 1 June


•82.8% of all patrols in the AO were partnered or AUP

only

•Fatwan Gul had the most AUP only patrols at 97

(29.9% of their total patrol activity)

•UN had the highest percentage of AUP only patrols

at 94 (40.9% of their total patrol activity)


independent in planning at 51 (18.7%)


independent in planning at 24.3%



in planning at 75.7%


independent in execution at 51 (18.7%)


independent in execution at 24.3%



in execution at 75.7%

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AUP Patrol Planning Rating by Week 24 March - 1 June

Established Developing Effective w/Assistance Effective w/Advisors Independent

CMAT automatically

generates power point

presentation with graphs (by

location and over time) with a

word picture of summary

stats for the commander to

assess the unit’s progress

and provide insight (context)

to the trends identified by

CMAT

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Saving, Closing, and Exporting CMAT Data

• Recommend Saving CMAT at least Daily

– Click “Save CMAT” and pick the

location for saving CMAT

• If you want to close CMAT, you will be

prompted for where to save CMAT to

• For external (Geo-Spatial in CPOF, Google

Earth, or IDAPT select “Out Completed

Patrol Data to New Workbook”

– Select how many weeks of CMAT data

you want to export

– Creates new workbook (flat Excel file)

for Analysis

– Automatically saves flat file to same

folder that CMAT is saved to

• Filename is the Date Time stamp

• Can also export the Mission Cards as a

flat Excel File


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CMAT Excel Output

• Two Tabs in CMAT Excel

Output:

– Data

– IDAPT Feed

• Data Tab gives you a row

for each patrol for

summary stats analysis

(Pivot Tables)

• IDAPT Feed Tab gives you

a row for each patrol

check point reported in the

data tab

– Useful for importing to

CPOF, Google Earth or

IDAPT to display

Company’s Patrol

Footprint (Gaps/Seams)


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23 Mar 11 to 21 Apr 11

ANSF Only Patrols

22 Apr 11 to 23 May 11

ANSF Only Patrols

23 Mar 11 to 21 Apr 11

USMC Only Patrols

22 Apr 11 to 23 May 11

USMC Only Patrols

Example of CMAT output data displayed in IDAPT Density map Comparing 2 time periods on Range220 at 29 Palms