Introduction to Military Overlay

Military Overlay can be used to create and share military overlays with standard military symbology.

In all military operations, shared understanding across units and echelons is critical. One way to establish a shared understanding is by utilizing a common language, or standard military symbology. Standard military symbology informs real-world mission planning and contributes to the generation of different courses of action.

Creating and sharing military plans allows decision makers to convey intention to units. Military overlays add geospatial context to the planning process and help decision makers compare different courses of action. Ultimately, comparing multiple friendly and enemy plans allows commanders to evaluate a variety of courses of action and select a plan that saves lives and ensures mission success.

The Military Overlay solution delivers a set of capabilities that help you add geospatial context to plans and establish shared understanding across units by sharing mapping products.

Deploy the solution

This ArcGIS solution can be deployed in your ArcGIS organization.

Deploy the solution

See Deploying a solution for more information.

Requirements

Military Overlay requires the following apps:

• ArcGIS Online
• ArcGIS Pro 3.1 or later (Standard, or Advanced)

Information products

Military Overlay includes the following information products:

Item	Description	Minimum user type
Military Overlay 2525B change 2	A zipped file with an ArcGIS Pro project used to create and share military overlays using MIL-STD-2525B w/Change 2 symbology.	GIS Professional (Standard, or Advanced)
Military Overlay	A zipped file with a blank ArcGIS Pro project used to create and share military overlays.	GIS Professional (Standard, or Advanced)

When you deploy this solution in your ArcGIS organization, you also get an ArcGIS solution item that organizes the key information products and summarizes all the ArcGIS items (applications, forms, projects, maps, feature layers, feature layer views, and so on) included with the solution. The ArcGIS solution item also illustrates any dependencies items have on each other.

Release notes

The following are the release notes:

Version	Description
1.2 (Mar 2024)	The new Military Overlay ArcGIS Pro project replaces the Military Overlay 2525D ArcGIS Pro project to improve usability when working with a standard different from the sample data.
1.1 (Nov 2023)	Updated Delete All Features From Workspace tool to work on supported previous versions of ArcGIS Pro. Sample data included for both MIL-STD-2525B w/Change 2 and MIL-STD-2525D.
1.0	First release of Military Overlay