C4I Domain Task Force DTF Report to the Crisis Response Executive Advisory Team CREATE

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C4I Domain Task Force (DTF)Report to theCrisis
Response Executive Advisory Team (CREATE)

• 14 September 2003

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Agenda

• Roadmap Update
• Activities Relative to C4I Roadmap Focus Areas
• Shared Operational Picture
• Computer and Communications Infrastructure
• Sensors
• Modelling and Simulation
• Information Assurance
• Coalition Day Event in London on 19 November

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Roadmap Update

• Roadmap undergoing updates and revisions
• Greater emphasis on Emergency Response and
  Management
• Additional activities in Focus Areas

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Shared Operational Picture

• Three Requests for Information (RFI) issued in
  Paris in June
• Information Exchange Data Model (OMG Document
  c4i/2003-06-04)
• Structure, content, and domains for the capture,
  use, and exchange of information within
  coalitions and supporting organizations
• Responses Due 27 October 2003
• Trusted Information Exchange Mechanism (OMG
  Document c4i/2003-06-05)
• Interfaces that will enable trusted and selected
  information to be exchanged between SOPES
  compliant architectures within coalitions and
  supporting organizations
• Responses Due 27 October 2003
• Policy Management Services (OMG Document
  c4i/2003-06-06)
• Policy management strategies
• Tools and languages that facilitate the
  management and administration of the information
  exchange compatibility during C4I and Crisis
  Management Operation
• Responses Due 12 January 2004

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Computer and Communications Infrastructure

• High Level Services for Combat Management Systems
  (CMS)
• Draft Request for Proposal (RFP) in review
• Issuance planned for November in London
• Civil version entitled High Level Services for
  Incident Management Systems (IMS) to follow in
  late 2004
• Communication Services for Distributed C4I
  Systems
• Draft RFI was introduced in Boston this week
• Issuance planned for November 2003 in London

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Sensors

• Generic Sonar Interfaces (GSI)
• Second Response are due 27 October 2003
• Expecting a single joint response
• Adoption anticipated in January 2004 in Anaheim,
  CA
• Generic Sensor Services (GSS)
• Draft RFP planned for January 2004 in Anaheim, CA
• Issuance planned for March 2004

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Modelling and Simulation

• First Workshop on Web Enabled Modeling and
  Simulation (WebSim)
• Scheduled for 27 30 October in Washington, DC
  area
• 27 October Tutorials
• 28 30 October -- Workshop
• Sponsored by General Dynamics
• Multi-organizational effort
• Object Management Group
• C4I DTF
• Geospatial and Imagery Value Added Services
  (GIVAS) DTF
• Simulation Special Interest Group (SIM SIG)
• OMG Staff
• Open GIS Consortium (OGC)
• Simulation Interoperability Standards
  Organization (SISO)
• Web3D Consortium
• See http//www.websim.net/ for further
  information
• Still a few opportunities to join panels
• Contact Shel Sutton (shel_at_mitre.org)
• Memorandum of understanding being negotiated to
  link OMG, OGC, SISO, Web3D, and, possibly others
• Web Enabled Modeling and Simulation Network
  (WebSim.Net)

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Information Assurance

• Discussions continue relative to
• Guidelines for inter-operable, portable, global
  identification over a federated, multi-domain
  Public Key Infrastructure (PKI)
• Security policy interoperability in multi-enclave
  environments
• Negotiated access based upon individuals
  organization and role
• Owner managed releasability
• Policy language-based owner management of
  information releasability
• Common Criteria in Model Driven Architecture
  (MDA)
• RFIs and RFPs are being considered

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Coalition Day Events

• Coalition Day events are held once a year
• Designed for defense, intelligence, and emergency
  management community leaders
• To provide views concerning the strategic
  importance of distributed object technology for
  attaining interoperability among potential
  coalition partners of all kinds at all levels
• Needs with respect to that distributed object
  technology
• Opportunity to hear about experiences in the
  application of the OMG adopted technologies
  (including CORBA, UML, CWM, MOF, and XMI) in
  defense and intelligence applications
• 8th Coalition Day Event
• Topic is the Civil/Military Interface
• 19 November 2003
• A special event of the OMG meeting in London
• We are seeking additional panelists for all panels

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8th Coalition Day Event Agenda

• 0900 0910 Welcome and Opening Remarks
• Speaker Shel Sutton, MITRE Corporation (TBR),
  Co-Chair, C4I DTF
• 0910 0935 Keynote 1 Title TBD
• Speaker Pete Verga, US Department of Defense
  Spokesman on Homeland Security
• 0935 1000 Keynote 2 Lessons learned from case
  studies of
• An immediate crisis (possibly Iraq)
• Conflict/immediate post-conflict (Afghanistan)
• Stabilizing crisis (Sierra Leone)
• Speaker David Stewart-Howitt, London School
  of Economics
• 1000 1020 Break Exhibits
• 1015 1100 Panel 1 Communications
  Interoperability
• 1100 1115 Break
• 1115 1200 Panel 2 Information Assurance
  Interoperability
• 1200 1345 Lunch Exhibits
• Lunch will be with OMG members followed by a
  presentation to all lunch attendees by
• the hosting organization, Compuware (Europe).
• 1345 1430 Briefing on the Information
  Technology for Crisis Management (ITCM) project
• Speaker Kari J. Laitinen, Program Manager,
  University of Tampera
• 1430 1450 Break Exhibits

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8th Coalition Day Event Agenda

• 0900 0910 Welcome and Opening Remarks
• Speaker Shel Sutton, MITRE Corporation (TBR),
  Co-Chair, C4I DTF
• 0910 0935 Keynote 1 Title TBD
• Speaker Pete Verga, US Department of Defense
  Spokesman on Homeland Security
• 0935 1000 Keynote 2 Lessons learned from case
  studies of
• An immediate crisis (possibly Iraq)
• Conflict/immediate post-conflict (Afghanistan)
• Stabilizing crisis (Sierra Leone)
• Speaker David Stewart-Howitt, London School
  of Economics
• 1000 1020 Break Exhibits
• 1015 1200 Panel 1 Communications
  Interoperability
• 1015 1200 Panel 2 Information Assurance
  Interoperability
• 1200 1345 Lunch Exhibits
• Lunch will be with OMG members followed by a
  presentation to all lunch attendees by
• the hosting organization, Compuware (Europe).
• 1345 1430 Briefing on the Information
  Technology for Crisis Management (ITCM) project
• Speaker Kari J. Laitinen, Program Manager,
  University of Tampera
• 1430 1450 Break Exhibits
• 1450 1635 Panel 3 Geospatial Information
  Systems

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And Finally

• Coming together is a beginning
• Keeping together is progress
• Working together is success.
• -- Henry Ford
• The C4I DTF still needs you to
• Review and advise relative to our roadmap, RFIs,
  RFPs, and responses
• Advocate participation in our activities
• Please attend our meetings and the Coalition Day
  Event in London