NCO Program Committee Overview

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NCO Program Committee Overview

• C. Stephen Kuehl
• AIAA NCO PC Chairman
• Raytheon Technical Services Co., LLC
• Engineering Production Support
• Indianapolis, IN
• 317-306-4230
• charles_s_kuehl_at_raytheon.com

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Overview Topics

• Its All About Playing in the Global Information
  Grid (GIG)
• What is a GIG?
• GIG Future State Capabilities
• GIG Development Challenges
• Organizational Charter
• Internal PC Organization
• PC Organization to the World
• Integrating Liaison Activities Inside AIAA
• Extending Liaison Activities Outside of AIAA
• Scheduled AIAA Earned Value Activities
• RENO NCO Kickoff Meeting Agenda
• Closing Thought

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Its All About Playing In The GIG!
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What is a GIG?

• DOD defines the GIG as
• a globally interconnected, end-to-end set of
  information capabilities, associated processes,
  and personnel for collecting, processing,
  storing, disseminating, and managing information.

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GIG Future State Capabilities
Today ---------------- ...Tomorrow
Plenty of Engineering Challenges
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GIG Development Challenges
21 Billion Investment
Development From 2004 Thru 2009
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Organizational Charter

• Establish an Institute-Wide integrated,
  collaborative TAC body that influences national
  NCO policy and technology migration leveraging
  TACs technical committees knowledge breadth
  depth to support the development/adaptation of
  products/services that advance the
  state-of-the-art in Network Centric Operations.

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Organizational Charter (continued)

• Provide a Horizontal TAC integration vehicle for
  providing policy and position papers that impact
  focused issues for Congress (funding and policy),
  DoD and DHS (end users), FAA (NAS C2), or the FCC
  (spectrum control and allocation) for improving
  our national security.

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Organizational Charter (continued)

• Provide a forum for identification and
  prioritization of key industry-wide NCO
  technology challenges and gaps to influence
  feeder markets (e.g. commercial IT)
• Examples
• Secure, mobile ad-hoc wireless networking
• Multi-level network security
• Scaleable, open information management
  infrastructures
• Tools for network enabling legacy systems
• Effects-based modeling and simulation tools for
  assessing benefits of NCO

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Internal PC Organization

• An Executive Steering Committee composed of five
  people (including the chairman) will be formed to
  help direct these two sub-committees and assist
  with the TAC Directorate TC liaisons and program
  task commitments.
• NCO Commercial-Based Sub-Committee - CBSC
  (Deputy Chairman) Any AIAA member or technology
  expert working in NCO related technologies and in
  good standing with the US government and local
  authorities.
• NCO Intelligence-Based Sub-Committee - IBSC
  (Deputy Chairman) AIAA Members are US citizens
  holding Secret DoD Clearances or Higher working
  in NCO related ISR programs or technology areas.

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PC Organization to the World
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Integrating Liaison Activities Inside of AIAA TCs
Sections

• NCO Command and Control (operating at the edge)
• Information and Command Control Systems TC
  (intelligence and communications chain), Weapon
  System Effectiveness TC (kill chain), Systems
  Engineering TC (requirements and systems
  architecture), and Modeling Simulation TC
  (requirements and systems architecture).
• NCO Systems Enterprise Management (business case
  and liaison with public policy, concerned with
  cost, business enterprise, profitability,
  commercial/off-the-shelf products, technology
  innovation and maturity)
• Management TC Risk Management TC, Legal Aspects
  of Aeronautics and Astronautics TC, and Economics
  TC.
• NCO Computing, Networking Technology (monitor
  trends/new technology)
• Computer Systems TC, Software Systems TC, and
  Communications Systems
  TC.

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Integrating Liaison Activities Inside of AIAA TCs
Sections

• NCO Systems Integration (NCO product
  development)
• Multidisciplinary Design Optimization TC,
  Technical Information TC, Intelligent Systems TC,
  Life Sciences and Systems TC (human factors), and
  the Digital Avionics TC.
• NCO Aircraft / Spacecraft Applications
• VSTOL TC, Aircraft Operations TC, Air
  Transportation TC, Missile Systems TC, Space
  Systems TC, and Space Transportation TC.
• NCO Deployment Support/Training
• Product Support TC, Space Logistics TC, and
  Space Colonization TC.

Plenty OF Opportunities For Participation!
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Extending Liaison Activities Outside of AIAA

• Collaborate with External Organizations
• NCOIC
• AFEI
• NDIA
• OSD/DoD
• NASA
• IEEE
• INCOSE
• Multimedia/IT Trade Associations/Open Groups
• SEI/SPC
• SAE

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Scheduled AIAA Earned Value Activities

• NCO PC 1st Open Forum Meeting with 9/11
  Commission Report Featured Speaker (Jan 2005
  ASM/Reno, NV)
• NCO PC sponsored 2005 NDIA Interoperability
  Systems Integration NCO 1/2 Day Workshop (March
  2005 Norfolk, VA)
• NCO PC 1st US Citizen/Secret/No Foreign INTEL
  Focused Meeting (March 2005 CVD/Public Policy,
  WASH DC Area)
• NCO PC 2nd Open Forum Meeting and NCO Panel in
  the Digital Avionics Systems Conference (DASC)
  (October 2005 Wash DC)
• NCO PC 2nd US Citizen/Secret/No Foreign INTEL
  Focused Meeting with NCO Sponsored Hot Topics
  Panel (October 2005 Weapon
  System Effectiveness Secret Conference Austin,
  Texas)

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RENO NCO PC Kickoff Meeting

• Friday Morning Jan 14th Carson 4
• NCO PC Business Plan, Scope, Purpose,
  Organization
• External Liaisons Collaborations Pitches
• AFEI (Association For Enterprise Integration)
• NCOIC (Network Centric Operations Industry
  Consortium)
• MITRE/FAA
• Buffet Lunch

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RENO NCO PC Kickoff Meeting

• Friday Afternoon Jan 14th Carson 4
• Speaker from the 9/11 Public Discourse Project
• Terrorism NetCentric Operations Making Our
  Countries Safer What the New Congressional Law
  Means to the Aerospace Business Community
• NCO PC Working Group Activities

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Closing Thought
GET INVOLVED
Jan 14th Carson 4 8am to 5pm