Responds to the DoD Deputy CIO

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AFEI/NDIA NCO Activity
May 9, 2005 Rosslyn, VA
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AFEI/NDIA NCO Activities

• Net-centricity is ubiquitous
• Net-Centric Warfare
• Net-Centric Operations
• Network Enabled Capability
• Network Enabled Operations

• Warner Trucking

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AFEI/NDIA NCO Activities
NCO Requires
Collaboration
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AFEI/NDIA NCO Activities

• Major subject for NDIA Divisions
• Systems Engineering
• Interoperability
• Systems Engineering Best Practice
• CMMI, JBMC2, Open Architecture
• C4ISR
• Actionable Situational Awareness Project
• First Industry-led ACTD funded by OSD
• PACOM receiving Command
• DISA Technical Sponsor
• Several other divisions have had conferences
  involving NCO content

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AFEI/NDIA NCO Activities

• Several NDIA Affiliates also involved with NCO
• National Training Systems Association
• Training and training systems for NCO
• Modeling and simulation of NCO
• Content at I/ITSEC
• Precision Strike Association
• NCO role in enabling precision engagement
• Reach back for information, intel, data

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Net-Centric Operations Industry Forum

• Net-Centric Operations Industry Forum
• Jointly Chartered by DoD CIO and AFEI
• Charter signed on Feb 17
• Dr. Linton wells, DoD CIO
• Hon Jacques Gansler, UMD
• RADM Ray Witter USN (ret.), Northrop-Grumman
• Participation open to all with legitimate
  interest
• Governance by AFEI Members
• Chairs of Working Groups
• Board of Directors
• Collaborate with DoD on NCO issues
• Filter out business development

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Net-Centric Operations Industry Forum

• NCOIF Mission
• Support the migration to an open business model
  that supports full competition but enables
  horizontal integration of the resulting
  capabilities and systems, regardless of who
  developed or provides the systems.
• Review and comment on industry-wide frameworks
  which will support horizontal integration of
  platforms and systems.
• Provide an industry advisory service for the DoD
  CIO regarding the net centric strategies,
  programs, acquisitions, implementation, and
  sustainment.
• Provide industry-wide critiques and analysis in
  response to government stakeholders.
• Provide a forum for industry discussion and
  collaboration on evolving enterprise service
  models.

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NCOIF Working Groups
OASD (NII)/DoD CIO and AFEI Charter 2/18/05
Data Sharing Service Strategy
Information Assurance (IA) Security
Wireless Communications
Architecture
(GIG ES IAC)
Mike Krieger
Bob Lentz NSA
George Wauer, OASD NII
Dr. Jost, OASD NII
Enterprise Services Data Strategy SOA Web Services
Assured Info Sharing Network Defense Identity
Management Network Availability
Commercial Wireless Policy Mobile Networks
NCOW Reference Model Right-sized Architecture
Commercial Acquisition Practices
Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance
Kevin Meiners, USD (I)
Ray Boyd (ESI e-Gov)
ISR SOA interoperability Horizontal
Integration ISR COI Information Sharing .
Commercial Practices Business Models
April 5, 2005
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AFEI NCOIF and NCOIC
Activity Unique to NCOIC Engineering NCO
Activity Unique to AFEI Strategy Policy for NCO

• Participate in standards bodies related to
  software and hardware technology and the AD
  industry
• Endorse architecture standards for the Aerospace
  Defense industry
• Identify standards as building blocks that
  systems engineers can call upon when developing
  NCO capability

• Promote thought leadership on a broad spectrum of
  Enterprise integration issues
• Enable convergence of NCO efforts through
  relationships with various organizations
• Facilitate exchange of cross-domain best
  practices with industry sectors critical to
  national security

NCOIC
AFEI

• Develop and refine an NCO Reference Model
• Identify open standards and their pattern of use
• Assess interoperability techniques and their
  ability to rapidly enable NCO applications
• Support re-useable, long-term solution models
  that can be scaled and/or replicated rapidly and
  cost-effectively

• Coordinate broad industry input to DoD on policy,
  implementation and best practices.
• Promote understanding of global facets of
  transformation and the complexity and
  interconnectedness of ubiquitous information
  sharing
• Provide broad platforms for member networking and
  opportunity discovery

Activity Common to AFEI and NCOIC

• Requirements
• Collaborate with Government to identify
  commonalities, conflicts and gaps in NCO
  requirements
• Evaluate architectures, evolving standards and
  implementation plans

• Education
• Provide education of industry and Government on
  key areas that enable NCO
• Establish information outlets that educate
  industry on best practices from both Defense and
  commercial sectors

• Communication
• Establish programs that inform industry of DoD
  policy and intentions regarding development and
  evolution of NCO
• Inform DoD of best practices and practical
  challenges that can influence policy and
  implementation direction

• Collaboration
• Generate working groups across industry that
  involve government to collaborate on evolving the
  community to support the NCO paradigm
• Affiliate with like-minded organizations to
  broaden the base

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Convergence is Imperative

• All Associations and Societies Must Address NCO
• Collaboration Amongst Them Is Essential
• NCOIF, NCOIC and W2COG developing close
  collaborative relationships
• AFEI Chairs NCOIC Affiliations Council
• NCOIC Executive Director on AFEI Board
• Cross-pollinated committees
• Coordinating Programs and Mutual Efforts
• NCO Paradigm Demands a Cardinal Rule
• No Stovepipes, No Vacuums, No Rice Bowls!
• AIAA Important to The Cause
• AFEI Is Seeking to Collaborate

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Net-centric Operations

• NCO is massive, complex and evolving
• Industry feels the Winds of Change direction?
• Legacy Stovepipe system companies are fearful
  of business reduction and searching for their
  future reduce uncertainty
• Some companies sense new opportunities
• New Balance needed among Commercial Industry,
  Defense and IT providers
• Identity Management
• Service Oriented Architectures
• Meta data modeling
• Semantic web
• Information Sharing Paradigm

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Conclusion

• Encourage Proactive Collaboration and Convergence
  of Association Programs
• Our Enterprises Demand
• Consistent Views
• Resource rationalization and normalization
• Employ Combined Leverage to Accelerate NCO
• Learn From and Inform Each Other
• Help Industry Understand When to Collaborate and
  When to Compete
• Present Collaborative Picture to DoD