Tuning Emerging TechnologiesMaking Them Play Together: From Stovepipes to Wind Chimes

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Tuning Emerging TechnologiesMaking Them Play
Together From Stovepipes to Wind Chimes!

• Jim Disbrow, Project Manager
• Susan Turnbull, Co-Chair, ET Subcommittee
• Richard Spivack, Co-Chair, ET Subcommittee
• Owen Ambur, Former Project Manager
• Blue Sky Forum, Department of Energy
• October 24, 2007

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CIOC Emerging Technology Life-Cycle Management
Process

• Overview
• Authority
• FY08 Activities
• Benefits
• Discussion

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Emerging Technology Subcommittee, Architecture
and Infrastructure Committee, CIO Council

• Tuning ET Together - From Stovepipes to Wind
  Chimes
• Purpose An incubator organizing process to
  accelerate discovery, maturation, and validation
  of capabilities that leverage FEA principles and
  priorities. The key components of charter
• Greater foresight and discernment as established
  and emerging technologies compete and converge
• Longer life-cycles through market-based, open
  standards technologies
• Common understanding of business scenarios to
  anticipate performance outcomes and mitigate
  risks.
• Improve strategic foresight and collaboration
  capacity around strategic IT assets.

• Key FY08 Activities
• Conduct ET Life-cycle process http//ET.gov
• Conduct Collaborative Expedition Workshops with
  GSA and Subcommittee on Networking for IT
  Research and Development

ET SC Co-chairs
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CIOC ET Life-Cycle Management ET.gov

• FY05 CIOC - Develop identification and validation
  processes for emerging technologies
• Examine crosscutting emerging technology
  components and develop recommendations for
  government use
• Governmentwide IT innovation lifecycle management
  process to accelerate discovery, validation, and
  maturation of components
• Accept submissions from vendor/integrators
• Approved components in governmentwide repository
  CORE.gov
• FY07-09 CIOC Strategic Plan
• Interoperable IT solutions, identified and used
  efficiently and effectively across the Federal
  Government. Goal 3
• Continue to develop more efficient and effective
  methods for sharing information on emerging
  technologies. Obj. 9
• Continue to implement refine life-cycle
  management process and website (ET.gov) to enable
  the identification and discovery of emerging
  technology components and specifications, via
  full-text searching as well as mappings to the
  FEA Service Component Reference Model (SRM) and
  Technical Reference Model (TRM). Major Activity
• History, Principles and Authority

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Key FY08 Activities

• Conduct http//ET.gov
• Purpose Continue to develop more efficient and
  effective methods for sharing information on
  emerging technologies. CIOC Strategic Plan
• ET.gov stages
• 1. Identification anyone registers ET component
  using XML schema gt80
• 2. Subscription community forms around high
  potential component 14
• 3. Stewardship community recognized by ET SC
  (i.e. IPv6, StratML)) 5
• 4. Graduation component recognized by Services
  SC for inclusion in CORE.gov 2

• Key FY08 Actions
• Explore partnering with other federal settings
  involved in technology evaluation and transfer
• Conduct Collaborative Expedition workshops to
  support networking among ET communities

Contact Information
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Key FY08 Activities

• 2. Conduct Collaborative Expedition Workshops
• Purpose Monthly open workshops to encourage
  collaboration among government and community
  implementers of IT and to demonstrate promising
  capabilities emerging from IT research that
  aligns with FEA principles
• Facilitate strategic dialogue among communities
  of interest. Through the Expedition Workshops,
  sponsored by AIC, interested participants
  experience and learn about new opportunities to
  adhere to sound architectural principles and
  implement shared, service-oriented solutions.
  from CIOC Strategic Plan
• Leadership in virtual collaboration (i.e. Data
  Reference Model, Geospatial Profile)

• Key FY08 Activities/Deliverables
• Organize around business scenarios from ET.gov
  IT RD communities that address CIOC Strategic
  Plan and Architecture Principles for the US
  Government.
• Organize around CIO requests.

ET SC co-chairs SEW CG co-chairs
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Key FY08 Activities Graduation to Services SC

• 3. Strategy Markup Language - StratML
• Purpose To facilitate collaboration around
  shared missions and reduce the number of
  duplicative performance metrics
• XML vocabulary and schema Federal agency
  strategic plans and potential for performance
  plans, and performance reports all aligned with
  FEA
• More than 50 Federal strategic plans rendered in
  StratML
• Support strategic alignment among partners and
  maintain currency readily
• 4. IPv6
• Purpose To provide leadership and coordination
  in the adoption of IPv6
• Explore business scenarios to anticipate
  performance outcomes and mitigate risks.

• Key FY08 Actions
• Establish agreement with Services SC for ET
  components graduating to CORE.gov
• Explore interest in StratML from science IT RD
  agencies

StratML IPv6 XML CoP
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ET.gov Enables.

• Identification Discovery of ET Components
• By anyone
• Regardless of whether component exists yet or not
• Formation, Identification Discovery of CoPs
• By .gov folks with business expertise
• In partnership with .com, .edu .org technical
  experts
• Potential Direction of Additional Resources
• By CIOC leaders
• Based upon need, interest priorities
• Collaboration to Assess Viability Utility
• By ET CoPs
• Through proofs-of-concept, pilots
• Delivery of Proven Components
• For Consideration By Services Subcommittee
  Governance Subcommittee, Agencies, LOBs eGov
  Projects

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ET.gov - Built to SharePotential Innovation
Partnerships

• IC Vendorpedia
• Followup to 9/13/06 conversation with Gen.
  Meyerrose (Ambur)
• 8/16/07 telecon with DNI/OCIO staff (Turnbull
  Ambur)
• DHS IT Products Services Database
• IPV6 WG inspired enhancements
• Other agencies/systems? National Labs?

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Home Page
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Identify a Component
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SRM Components
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TRM Specifications
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Register a Component
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Search Components
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Enhanced Search Prototype
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Questions?

• http//et.gov/help.aspx
• JIM.DISBROW_at_eia.doe.gov
• Project Manager

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ET.gov Additional Background

• ET CoPs can use any collaborative tools they
  choose, such as
• CORE.gov
• http//gsa.gov/collaborate
• Components graduating from Stage 4 become
  candidates for
• Inclusion in CORE.gov by Services Subcommittee,
  or
• Consideration by the Governance Subcommittee
• Relatively low-risk usage by agencies
• Channel for input into CIOCs FEA model
  maintenance process for SRM TRM
• http//et.gov/pagehelp.aspxservicetype
• http//et.gov/pagehelp.aspxtechnicalstandard