TRANSFORMING THE NATIONAL DEFENSE TEAM CREATING AN INFORMATION ADVANTAGE FOR OUR PEOPLE AND MISSION

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TRANSFORMING THENATIONAL DEFENSE TEAMCREATING
AN INFORMATION ADVANTAGE FOR OUR PEOPLE AND
MISSION PARTNERS
DAVID M. WENNERGRENDeputy Assistant Secretary of
Defense for Information Management,Integration,
and Technology and DoD Deputy Chief Information
Officer [phone]david.wennergren_at_osd.mil
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THE WORLD HAS CHANGED
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THE FUTURE OFCOMMAND AND CONTROL

• The term Command and Control has become a
  significant impediment to progress . a term that
  has become unalterably frozen in time.
• In the Information Age, the future focuses on
  threeconcepts
• Focus Provides the context and defines the
  purposesof the endeavor
• Convergence The goal-seeking process that
  guidesactions and effects.
• Agility The critical capability that
  organizationsneed to meet the challenges of
  complexity and uncertainty
• Moving the practice of command and control away
  fromclassic C2 in the direction of edge
  organizations movingpower to the edge is an
  argument deemed risky by some.
• There is more risk inherent in continuing
  business as usual than there is in aggressively
  developing and testing new (edge-like) approaches.

The power of Net-Centric Operations is the
result of achieving shared awareness and being
able to act on this improved shared awareness by
self-synchronization involving all levels. -
David S. Alberts
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CURRENT INFORMATIONSHARING CHALLENGES
NET-CENTRIC DATASTRATEGY TENETS
IMPLEMENTATION APPROACHES
Advertise Information Holdings (Tag Data)
VISIBLE
Web Enable Sources Remove Impediments Need to
Share
ACCESSIBLE
Communitiesof Interest (COIs) Shared
Vocabularies
UNDERSTANDABLE
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AN ANALOGYTHE BALANCING ACT
A constant battle between two opposing views of
the network
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NEW MODEL RAISING THE BAR
To deliver the net-centric future,we must be
extremely successful at both!
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A VISION FOR THE FUTURE IDENTITY... ATTRIBUTES
DATA
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INFORMATION ASSURANCE CHARTING THE COURSEFOR THE
FUTURE
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THE MOBILE WORKERNOMADIC COMPUTING
Can you just say No? It may seem that the
simplest answer is to enforcea policy that
forbids wireless access, but this strategy is
doomed to fail.
DEPLOYING SAFE WIRLESS LANS GARTNER RESEARCH, 5
JULY 2001
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ITS A WEB 2.0 WORLD
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SECOND LIFE

• 3-D virtual world entirely built and owned byits
  residents
• Over 8 million registered accounts
• 2008 Presidential Candidate virtual campaign
  headquarters (Edwards)
• IBM developed office space and holds hundredsof
  accounts
• Starwood Hotels tested new aloft design
• Reuters and other news agencies have set up
  virtual bureaus
• Sweden opened virtual embassy in May 2007

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NET-GENERATION WORKFORCE
Net-Geners exploit new technologies and
social Networking for workplace productivity.
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DEMOGRAPHIC REALITIES Generational Distribution
for Major DoD IT Series (2210, 1550, 855, 854,
391)
AVERAGE RETIREMENT AGE
NET-GEN 10
GEN X 22
BABY BOOM 64
PRE-BABY BOOM 4
REGULAR RETIREMENT CRITERIA Age 50 with 20 years
of creditable service or any age with 25 years of
creditable service.
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OUR WORKFORCEIS OUR FUTURE
In a Web 2.0 world, what opportunities will we
offer to the net generation workforce? will we
be an employer of choice? and will we give
them an environment that fuels the fire of their
creativity and innovation?
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DOD IM/IT STRATEGIC PLAN

• GOALS
• NET-CENTRIC TRANSFORMATION
• Accelerate DoDs net-centric transformation to
  facilitate effective and efficient warfighting,
  intelligence and business processes and other
  national security activities.
• INFORMATION AS A STRATEGIC ASSET
• Use information sharing to enable effective and
  agile decision making through visible,
  accessible, understandable and trusted data and
  services when and where needed.
• INTEROPERABLE INFRASTRUCTURE
• Ensure robust and reliable world-wide
  connectivity and infrastructure within DoD and
  with external mission partners.

• ASSURED INFORMATION ACCESS
• Protect and defend DoD systems, networks and
  information to maximize mission assurance.
• RETURN ON INVESTMENT
• Institutionalize IT Portfolio Management (PfM)
  and Enterprise Architecture (EA) to maximize the
  contribution of IT investments to national
  security and defense outcomes.
• IT WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT
• Maintain an agile IT workforce with the skills to
  build, extend, exploit and defend a net-centric
  Defense information enterprise.

• Future View
• Net-Centricity
• Decentralized Control
• Enterprise Services
• Shared Data
• Autonomous Agent
• Enterprise Architecture
• Web 2.0

• Current View
• Stove-Pipe Information
• Centralized Control
• Unique Software Solutions
• Data Not Shared
• Inefficiency

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JOURNEY OF TRANSFORMATION
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THE POWER OF INFORMATION ACCESS. SHARE.
COLLABORATE.
LEAD THE DOD ENTERPRISE TO ACHIEVE AN INFORMATION
ADVANTAGE FOR OUR PEOPLEAND MISSION PARTNERS.
DAVID M. WENNERGREN Deputy Assistant Secretary
of Defense for Information Management, Integration
, and Technology DoD Deputy Chief Information
Officer [phone] david.wennergren_at_osd.mil