Enabling tools include a series of bookmarks that allows the officers to register particular areas of interests. If the officers want to move the viewing area across a theater of operations, the bookmarks allow them to call up designated areas after they have moved away from them. The system automatically shifts to vector level mapping after raster mapping loses clarity. A mix of UNIX and NT servers, or a standard NT desktop, can host the suite of tools supporting British Army G2 and G3 staffs. Its functionality includes maps and overlays, monitoring and status of units.
Users can structure forces and monitor unit holdings and personnel with a variety of fonts.
The system also permits operators to create orders for dissemination down the command hierarchy. G6 tools back-manage an application as it resides on an infrastructure. Working with the British Army, British Aerospace Defence Systems, Christchurch, Dorset, United Kingdom, has developed the component system, known as GP3. Now in its second release, the new system is slated for fielding with army units later this year. The GP3 system already has demonstrated the capability to radically speed up decision-making and dissemination processes.