1. 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 users across four NATO Secret Networks
LOCE - the only INTRANET 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,

2. 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,

3. What does LOCE look like?
LOCE (U.S.)
IPR-DISN
NATO NATIONS
US NSLAN
SIPRNET / NIPRNET
LOCE
Info Hub
MOD
Molesworth, UK
MOD
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,

4. 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