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Department of Defense Chief Information Officer’sGuidance and Strategic Outlook for the

Interagency, Multinational Information Sharing Architecture and Solutions Experiment

Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for

Networks and Information Integration OASD(NII) and the DoD Chief Information Officer

Mr Bill Barlow

Deputy Director, Integrated Information Communications Technologies (ICT) Support (IIS) Directorate

7 December 2010Mr. Al Johnson, Director, +1(703) 697-8190 Al.Johnson@osd.mil

Mr. William (Bill) Barlow, Deputy Director, +1(703) 601-2437William.Barlow@osd.mil

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Agenda

• OASD (NII) Vision and Mission

• The DoD HA/DR information sharing problem statement

• Transnational Information Sharing Cooperation JCTD

• Unclassified Information Sharing Environment

• Other Venues

• Experiment and OASD (NII) Goals

• OASD (NII) Specific Objectives– Planning, Technical, Cultural and Processes/Policy

• Other Thoughts: MDA & NGOs

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Integrated ICT SupportDirectorate Vision and Mission

Vision: A DoD enterprise that enables rapid, agile, and persistent sharing of civil-military information and situational awareness to facilitate coordination and cooperation with the US Government interagency and external mission participants across the full range of irregular warfare and stability operations (including Humanitarian Civic Assistance).

Mission: To develop and oversee policy that shapes ICT enablement of irregular warfare, stability operations, and theater security cooperation (including Humanitarian Civic Assistance). Identify ICT gaps, recommends solutions, and assess the Department’s progress towards improved information sharing and more effective civil-military coordination, situational awareness, and decision making. Engage with DoD and the US Government Interagency, and external organizations to facilitate resolution of ICT support issues during DoD response operations

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• The Combatant Commands (COCOMs) identified a need for more effective information exchange and collaboration between the Department of Defense (DoD) and its non-traditional partners:– Restricted ability to “connect and collaborate”– Independent organizations with separate guidance, resources, protocols, and

philosophies– Limited sharing of information, assessments, and plans across extended

partnership network is limited – exchanges are “ad hoc”– Required extensive operator intervention for stand-alone tools and legacy

systems• Ineffective communication can lead to failed programs, wasted resources, longer

response times, and duplicate or counter-productive actions between responders

Problem Statement Resulting from 2004 Tsunami and Hurricane Katrina

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• Initiative to facilitate information sharing among distributed organizations in support of complex efforts / operations / missions– Facilitate non-classified information sharing between United States

Government (USG) agencies– Enable collaboration with extended partners

• Primary goals– Non-classified, Web-enabled systems– Social networking among distributed participants

• Roadmap– Initial focus: on baseline information sharing capabilities– Follow-on work: to integrate additional user functionality and

enhancements for ease of use

Transnational Information Sharing Cooperation (TISC) Joint Capability Technology Demonstration (JCTD)

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TISC JCTD Uses APAN Platform and Supports Haiti Earthquake Response

13 Jan 2010: SOUTHCOM directs use of APAN Web 2.0 Group for all DoD unclas info sharing in support of the response.

17 Feb 2010: United Nations OCHA rep states US DoD level of information sharing surpassed all expectations – resulting in reduced loss of life.

Next Steps:• RMD 700 Governance• RMD 700 Implementation• Requirements Documentation• POM 12 Efforts • JS J3 UIS CONOPS JSAP

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TISC(APAN)

Multiple Solutions Today

HW

TISC (APAN)Hosted at PWC and

then DECC by 30 SEP 11

Shared Enterprise Service

On-going InitiativeIssue Memo

Directing COCOMs to TISC(APAN) – OEF temp use of

HarmonieWeb (HW)

Migrate TISC (APAN) to DISA DECC;Implement RMD 700; Establish Governance Structure; Develop MOUs

Implement Governance, Implement appropriate

funding process

One Solution as Unclassified, non

Dot Mil Gateway to DoD

Strategy to Achieve an “Initial” Unclas Info Sharing Capability for the Enterprise

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DECC

Phase 1FY10

Phase 2FY11

Phase 3FY12

TISC (APAN)Hosted in PWC

DECC

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DoD Unclassified Information Sharing Environment (2010)

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APAN (Initial Service & Capability)

Maritime Domain Awareness

SpecializedCapability

Future SpecializedCapability

Added SpecializedCapability

Harmonieweb (ISAF Support)

Unclassified Information Sharing Service

Autonomous Capabilities

Unclassified Information Sharing Service

Long-Term Strategy to Improve an Unclas Info Sharing Capability for the Enterprise

• Identify Capability Gaps• Leveraging Other Existing Systems and Capabilities

– APAN is the “initial” UIS capability; it’s not the only capability

– Integrate and/or federate other capabilities• Processes, procedures or technical approaches to

integrating – Recommend pathway forward to take advantage of

other department capabilities/systems• Objective Enterprise Architecture

– Service/Object Oriented Approach?

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OASD (NII) Interest in Exercises and Experiments with Information Sharing Focus

• EUCOM– Austere Challenge– Combined Endeavor 10 and 11

• AFRICOM– African Endeavor 10 and 11

• PACOM– Pacific Endeavor 10 and 11

• SOUTHCOM– Continuing Promise 10

• JFCOM– Interagency Shared Situational Awareness 09

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OASD (NII) Criteria for Success

• Identify repeatable tactics, techniques and procedures for adoption by DoD personnel in HA/DR events

• Capture business rules and processes for consideration in OPLANs or other COCOM planning documents

• Highlight key obstacles in policy/doctrine preventing sharing of unclassified information in HA/DR events and recommend solutions

• Determine COA for future capability growth for UIS– APAN is the initial UIS capability– Recommend methodology and/or design criteria for integrating

additional capability into UIS capability• Experiment with the OASD (NII) Data Pilot to move data

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OASD (NII) Specific Objectives

• Planning – Planning Conferences – recommend at least 1 planning

conference in the EUCOM/AFRICOM AoR– Consider a virtual approach to the experiment with

participants able to contribute from their home stations– Involve external to DoD participants in all phases of the

planning cycle

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OASD (NII) Specific Objectives (Con’t)

• Technical – Incorporate the OASD (NII) Comprehensive Approach to Civ-Mil

Information Sharing Data methodology into the experiment• Focus on Data collection, dissemination and integration• Determine if suitable for Cross Domain Solution

consideration/use– Identify technical challenges to integrating other unclassified

information sharing capabilities into the UIS• Identify and recommend solutions to capability gaps• Investigate and recommend a methodology for adding

improvements, new capability and/or systems to the UIS• Determine methodology for sharing information with other

federal government capabilities and UIS (e.g., DMIS, HIU, etc)

13We’re not building something new!

OASD (NII) Specific Objectives (Con’t)

• Cultural – Identify and recommend approaches to information

sharing with non-DoD federal government organizations (e.g., HIU, HHS, USAID) in DoD HA/DR events

– Identify and recommend approaches to engaging and sharing of information with non-governmental organizations (e.g., NGOs, IOs, Academia, etc…) in DoD HA/DR events

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Changing Perceptions

OASD (NII) Specific Objectives (Con’t)

• Processes/TTPs – Provide recommendations on how to incorporate the

OASD (NII) Comprehensive Approach to Civ-Mil Information Sharing Data methodology into department processes

– Identify policy and/or doctrine obstacles to information sharing and recommend proposed changes

– Experiment with new TTPs among non-traditional external DoD participants and recommend best approaches for unclassified information sharing• Sharing of specific types of information/data – the What’s?

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Success – How do you measure it?

• Measures of Effectiveness (What are we trying to ultimately accomplish?)– Improve the HA/DR response from all actors

• DoD, Federal Gov’t , IOs, NGOs, others (Primary)• DHS, State, Local, Tribal (Secondary)

– Conserve resources• SECDEF Memo on Improving Efficiencies in the DoD

– More effective use of delivered resources through better collaboration/coordination

– Establish a baseline for comparison?

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Maritime Domain Awareness Thoughts

• Meet EUCOM/AFRICOM’s intent for unclassified information sharing

• Focus on non-material solutions– What should we share and with whom?

• Standards compliance (National Information Exchange Model -- NIEM)?

• UIS is the DoD Enterprise Standard– No requirement to build something new

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Non-Governmental Organization’s Thoughts

• Improvement of NGO SME's participation in conferences, exercises, demonstrations or other types of organized information sharing activity largely sponsored by government entities.

• Development of a manual outlining NGO's interface or chosen lack of interface with each other, private sector agencies, and government agencies when delivering their mission and programs in the field. This will include suggestion on improvement of conditions.

• Inclusion of select SME's to participate in the IMISAS Demonstration and other possible exercises, and demonstrations as relevant to improving interaction between the ecosystem of humanitarian actors

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