ENTERPRISE GROUND TRANSFORMATION AT NESDIS Steven R

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ENTERPRISEGROUNDTRANSFORMATIONATNESDIS

StevenR.PetersenNationalOceanicandAtmosphericAdministration

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ABSTRACTTheNationalEnvironmentalSatelliteDataandInformationService(NESDIS)acquires,operates,andsustains

geosynchronous and polar weather satellites for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Theseplatforms provide key observations for the National Weather Service and a variety of other US users andinternationalpartners. RecentlyNESDISbeganactivities to transform its groundenterprise from the traditionalmodelofstand-alonesystemsintoanintegratedcapabilitythatismoreflexible,responsive,sustainable,andcosteffective. This paper describes results to date, including the Concept of Operations and initial BusinessArchitectureview.Italsoprovidesexamplesofearlyenterpriseactivitiesnearingcompletionandtheunderlyingservice oriented architecture that provides the technical basis for the long-term to-be end state. Finally itillustratesthechallengesassociatedwithcreatingchangeonanenterprisescale.

BACKGROUND

TheNationalEnvironmentalSatelliteDataandInformationService(NESDIS)acquires,operates,andsustainsgeosynchronous andpolarweather satellites for theNationalOceanic andAtmosphericAdministration1. Theseplatforms provide key observations for the National Weather Service and a variety of other US users andinternationalpartners.Historically,duetopartnershipsandacquisitionstrategies,NOAA’ssatellitemissionsweredeveloped as stovepipe systems. In the near term NESDIS will take ownership of separate ground segmentsdeveloped to support theGeostationaryOperational Environmental Satellite Series R (GOES-R)2 and Joint PolarSatellite System (JPSS)3; these will join the infrastructure previously fielded to support legacy GeostationaryOperational Environmental Satellite (GOES), PolarOperational Environmental Satellite (POES), andotherNESDISmissions.NOAA’sstovepipearchitecturesprovidelimitedsharingofcommonstandards,servicesorfunctionality.Thesesystemsgenerallyusededicatedcomponentresourcescraftedtoperformsolelyonemission.Whilethesedesignsarewell-thoughtoutandgenerallyperformtheirintendedfunctionswell,theyfrequentlylackprovisionsforsharingwithothermissionsthatneedsimilarservices.Thisleadstohighacquisitioncostsintheaggregateduetoredundantfunctionalitywitheachnewprogramandhighoperationsandmaintenancecosts. ThesecostsareparticularlyimportantnowduetothecurrentFederalbudgetandpolicychangesthatareaffectingNOAA.

ORGANIZATION

In January 2015 NESDIS activated the Office of Satellite Ground Services (OSGS)4. OSGS was created to

centralizedevelopmentandsustainmentofallNESDISsatellitegroundcapabilities. ToaccomplishthisobjectiveOSGSisexecutingthreeseparatebutinterrelatedmissions.ThefirstistosustainNESDISlegacygroundsystems.These include the GOES and POES ground systems plus the recently fielded JASON system and elements ofinfrastructure such as the antennas. The second mission is to assist in the completion and transition tosustainmentof thenewGOES-Rand JPSSgroundsystems. OSGSprovidesNOAAcivil servants to thesesatelliteprogramoffices.

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ThethirdmissionistoleadthetransitiontoanIntegratedGroundEnterprise(IGE)thatofferscost-effective,secure,agile,andsustainablesupport fortheNESDISmission. Theultimategoal is toneveragainbuyanentirenew ground system for future satellite constellations. The remainder of this paper describes how OSGS isexecuting this third mission. When fully developed the IGE will provide a suite of common ground servicesenabling(1)reductionofmissiongroundsystemscostsand(2)accelerateddeploymentofcapabilities.

Reduction of mission ground system costs will be achieved by 1) Eliminating redundant development of

common ground system functionality; 2) Sharing common but underutilized infrastructure resources acrosssatellite programs, and 3) Streamlining ground operations by eliminating redundant operations and embracingautomationtorequirefewersupportstaff.

Accelerated deployment of new ground system capabilities will be achieved by: 1) Eliminating redundant

acquisitionofcommongroundsystemfunctionality;2)Providingacommonhardwareandsoftwareenvironmentfor the development and deployment of new functionality, and 3) Implementing business process changes tostreamlinedeployment.

PlanningforthetransitiontotheIGEisaccomplishedthroughthreeprimaryactivities:1)Developmentofan

overarching IGE Concept of Operations5 (completed); 2) Crafting of an Enterprise Architecture describing thecurrent and to-be IGE states, and a Gap Analysis assessing shortfalls between the two states (inwork); and 3)DevelopmentofaTransitionandSequencingPlandescribingtheinvestmentsneededforthetransformationfromthecurrentstatetothefullIGE(inwork)

IGECONCEPTOFOPERATIONANDUSECASES

TheIGEConceptofOperationshasbeencompleted.Itdescribesthecapabilitiesandattributesthatthefuture

IntegratedGroundEnterprise(IGE)willpossessandillustratestheapplicationofthesecapabilitiesandattributesacross12usecases.Table1belowdescribesthecapabilitiesandattributesoftheIGE.

Capability/Attribute

Description

EnterpriseGovernance

IGEisasharedresourcethatmustbegovernedasanenterpriseresource;allstakeholdershaveavoicethroughaGovernanceBoard.

EnterpriseManagement

Enterprisemanagementwillprovidesituationalawareness(healthandstatus)andthecapabilitytomoveresourcesfromoneusetoanother.

EnterpriseFunding

Allusingorganizationswillprovidebaselinerequirements;NESDISwillassessIGErequirementsandrequestthenecessaryfunding.

SharedInfrastructure

Aninfrastructureofnetwork,compute,storageandsoftwareresourcesaresharedanddynamicallymanagedtomeetNESDISrequirements.

UbiquitousDataAccess

IGEprovidesaMetaDataRegistrydescribingavailabledataandhowtoaccessit.Documented,standards-basedAPIsenableaccess.

End-to-EndLifecycleDataManagement

Datamanagementincludesacquisition,qualitycontrol,validation,reprocessing,storage,retrieval,dissemination,andpreservation.IGEprovidescommonservicesformanyelementsoftheprocess.

IsolationofImpacts

IGEprovidesseparationssuchashypervisorsbetweentheusersofthesharedresources,andenforcesisolationbycontrolledinterfaces.


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HardwareAgnostic

IGEsupportsinfrastructureasaservice(IaaS),allowinghardwareandsoftwaretobedeveloped,allocated,andmanagedindependently.

LocationAgnostic IGEisadistributedsystemwherefunctionalitymaybeimplementedanywhereandmigratetonewlocationswithoutimpacttotheusers.

AcquisitionApproachAgnostic

IGEenablesarangeofacquisitionapproachesforaddingadditionalresources,capabilitiesorapplications-throughcompetition,solesource,internaldevelopment,orbytransferfromanacademicpartner

Service-OrientedApproach

EveryITresourceisaccessibleasaservice.Eachserviceinteractswiththeenterprisethroughdefinedinterfaces,soservicescanbereplacedoraddedwithlimitedimpacttotherestoftheenterprise.

MaximumReuseofCommonServices

Missionsareincentivizedtoreuseexistingservicesinsteadofcreatingredundantfunctionality,andcommonservicesarewelldocumentedinanenterpriseregistry.BypolicyandcontracttheGovernmentwillownfulldatarightsforallIGEcommonservices(exceptforCOTS).

UseofStandards IGEresources,interfaces,dataandmetadataformatsusenon-proprietarystandardsthathavebroaddeploymentandprovensuccess.

SupportforAutomation

IGEprovidesworkflowautomationforgreaterreliability,fasterexecution,reducedhumanerrors,andreducedcost.

SecurityasInfrastructure

ITsecuritycapabilitiesincludevirusscanning,firewalls,networkfiltering,virtualprivatenetworks,userauthentication,controls,etc.

WarehousingandRestoring

Warehousingsavestheauser’sprofileandresourcestostoragesothattheresourcescanbefreedforotherusers;laterrestoredeasily.

Table1–CapabilitiesandAttributesoftheIGEConceptofOperations6

In addition to the capabilities and attributes above the Concept of Operations features twelve use cases.

These illustrate the benefits of the IGE approach to all the major groups of stakeholders, from applicationdeveloperstooperatorstoendusers.ThegoalistosocializethebenefitsoftheIGEandenableallstakeholderstoseethemselveswithinthenewconstruct.Table2liststheusecases.

RoutineSatelliteOperationsIntegrationofaNewSatelliteMissionTransitionofaNASAResearchSatelliteMissiontoNOAAOperationsIntegrationofanExternalDataSourceNewDataProductRequirementNewAlgorithmDevelopmentAlgorithmSustainmentCalibrationandValidation(Cal/Val)SupportGovernanceofCommonServicesAutomationofaGroundsystemFunctionAddingaNewCommoncapabilitytoIGEReprocessing

Table2–ConceptofOperationsUseCases7


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TheembraceofmoderninformationtechnologyconceptssuchasaserviceorientedarchitectureandsharedresourcessuggestedalayeredbuildingblockapproachshowninFigure1below.

Figure1–IGEInfrastructureApproach8Comparedtotheexistingstand-aloneapproach,the IGEConceptofOperationsbringssignificant impactsto

traditionalapproachestodesign,development,sustainment,operations,security,andstaffing.Table3listssomeoftheseimpacts.

Impact Description

GovernmentIntegratorandInfrastructureProvider

Inatraditionalacquisitionaprimecontractorprovidesanend-to-endsystem,selectingandimplementingresourcesandintegratingthesystem.WithIGEtheGovernmentprovidesinfrastructureresourcesandassumesagreaterresponsibilityforintegrationandperformance.

StaffingandSkills Designing,implementing,operatingandmaintainingasharedinfrastructurerequiresnewstaffingandskillsets.

SharedResources Sinceresourcesareusedbymanysystemsacrosstheenterprise,thereisaneedforredundancyandothermitigationstoincreaserisk.

Security Capabilityprovisionedacrosstheenterprisereducestheneedtoimplementaredundantsetofcontrolswithineachapplication

SatelliteGroundSystemArchitectureandDesign

EachnewsatellitegroundcapabilityaddedtoIGEbecomesanintegralpartoftheoverallenterprisearchitecture.Newcapabilitiesmustcomplywithenterprisearchitectureprinciplessuchasbeinglocationagnostic,usingstandards,adheringtoopenstandards,etc.

MissionAcquisition Missionsconstituteincrementalmodificationsandadditionstotheexistinggroundenterprise,andmustbecompatiblewithIGE.


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Flight/GroundIntegration

IGEprovidesadefined,documented,andstandards-basedinterfacebetweentheflightsegmentandthegroundsegment.

DevelopmentandDeploymentofGroundFunctionality

IGEwillprovidedevelopment,testanddeploymentresources.Thisavoidscostsandspeedsdevelopmentbyeliminatingdelaystoacquireresources,providesanenvironmentthatmimicsoperations,providesoperationalandtestdata,andcommonservices.Thismayincreasetheintegrationrisk,requiringincreasedintegrationtesting.

MissionOperations Operatorswillinteractwithacommongroundoperatorinterface,resultinginlowertrainingcostsandimprovedoperationsefficiency.

Sustainment IndividualITresourcescanberefreshedindependentofthesystemsthatusethoseresources.Thisenablesadynamicrefreshcycle.

Requirements Level1groundrequirementswillmandateuseofIGE.

Table3–ImpactsofAdoptingtheIGEConceptofOperations9The IGE Concept of Operationswas completed in February 2015. It provides a foundational focus for the

EnterpriseArchitectureactivitiescurrentlyunderway.

ENTERPRISEARCHITECTURE(EA)OVERVIEWWhencompletetheEnterpriseArchitecturewillprovideacomprehensivevisionofthecapabilitiesoftheIGE

end state. This includes descriptions of the mission functions, organizations, data flows, and technologiesnecessary to achieve the capabilities captured in the Concept of Operations and bounded by the Level 1requirements.TheOSGSEAteamisusingtheTOGAF(TheOpenGroupArchitectureFramework)10tocreatethreeviewpoints of the NESDIS Ground Enterprise (NGE). The Business Architecture11 is the first viewpoint. Thesubsequent viewpoints are the Information Systems Architecture (ISA) and the Technology or TechnicalArchitecture (TA). The purpose of the Business Architecture is to describe business needs theNGEmustmeetversusrequirementstheNGEsystemmustsatisfyorsystemcapabilitiestheNGEsystemmustprovide.TheNGEendstateistheIGE.

TheBusinessArchitectureencompassesthemissionandmissionsupportgroundcapabilitiesthatexist,orwill

soonexist,inNESDIStoday.Thisincludesthelegacysatellitegroundsegments,earlyenterpriseelementsliketheEnvironmental Satellite Processing and Distribution System (ESPDS), the Comprehensive Large Array-dataStewardshipSystem(CLASS),andthesoon-to-be-operationalGOES-RandJPSSgroundsystems.

TheBusinessArchitectureconsistsoftheBaseline(As-Is)andTarget(To-Be)viewpointsandapreliminaryGap

Analysis identifying thedifferencesbetween them.TheBaseline (As-Is)BusinessArchitecturedescribesbusinesscapabilitiesthatexistasoftheendofFiscalYear2015.TheTarget(To-Be)BusinessArchitecturedescribesdesiredIGEbusiness capabilities in the 2022 timeframe. It is thesedifferencesbetween the current timeframeand thetarget timeframe that represent candidate initiatives for migrating from today’s stand-alone systems-basedenvironment to a service-oriented architecture in the future. Figure 2 below illustrates IGE operations in thetargettimeframe.


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Figure2–TheNESDISGroundEnterprise12

ANALYSISAPPROACH:TOGAFARCHITECTUREDEVELOPMENTMETHOD(ADM)TheTOGAFADMistheresultofcontinuouscontributionsfromalargenumberofarchitecturepractitioners.It

describesamethodfordevelopingandmanagingthelifecycleofanenterprisearchitecture,andformsthecoreofTOGAF.Figure3belowillustratestheninephasesoftheADM.Theyare:

-PreliminaryPhase-ArchitectureVisionPhase(A)-BusinessArchitecturePhase(B)-InformationSystemsArchitecturePhase(C)-TechnologyArchitecturePhase(D)-OpportunitiesandSolutionsPhase(E)-MigrationPlanningPhase(F)-ImplementationGovernancePhase(G)-ArchitectureChangeManagementPhase(H)


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Figure3–TOGAFMethod13 Figure4–EnterpriseBlueprinting14EnterpriseBlueprintingisanestablishedmethodologydevelopedtosystematicallydescribebusinessfunctions

and associated applications, data, interfaces, and rules. It accurately, completely and consistently elucidates ITapplication requirements and is based on over 30 years of pragmatic systems engineering applied to manybusinessesandbusinessdisciplines.TheOSGSEATeamtailoredEnterpriseBlueprintingtomergeitwithTheOpenGroupArchitectureFramework(TOGAF).

As illustrated inFigure4,EnterpriseBlueprintingdecomposestheGroundEnterprise intoorganizationunits,

businessservices,business functions,activitiesandfunctions. Thebehaviorofapplications,data, interfacesandbusiness rules describe each function and lead to an accurate elucidation of requirements. To ensurecompleteness,EnterpriseBlueprintingincludesanalysisofmissionobjectivesusingMissionThreadsandCapabilityVignettes.TheOSGSEATeamhasadaptedtheBusinessProcessModelandNotation(BPMN)capabilitiesavailableintheNESDISarchitecturemodelingtool,MagicDraw15,tocreateaseriesofBPMNprocessflows. Inadditiontohousing the artifacts created during the architecture analysis MagicDraw can be integrated with the DOORSrequirementsmanagementtool,enablingtraceabilityandlinkagesbetweenarchitectureandrequirements.

EnterpriseBlueprintinghasthreephases.TheOSGSEATeamhascompletedPhaseOne,CommunityAnalysis,

andPhaseTwo,OperationsAnalysis,inthedevelopmentoftheIDEbusinessarchitectures.PhaseThree,SystemsAnalysiswillbedoneinconjunctionwithOSGSsystemengineeringduringtheTOGAFISAphase.


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BUSINESSARCHITECTUREARTIFACTS

Examples of artifacts produced for the Target Business Architecture are shown below. TheMission Line of

SightDiagram16,Figure5below,depictstherelationshipoftheIGEmissionneeds,asspecifiedintherequirementsapplicabletothebaselinearchitecturefromtheLevel1RequirementsDocument,totheNOAA,NESDISandOSGSmissions. The Functional Decomposition Diagram, Figure 6, identifies the IGE business capabilities and theirrelationshiptothetypesoforganizationthatprovidethecapability.

Figure5–NESDISMissionLineofSight


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Figure6–TargetBusinessArchitectureFunctionalDecomposition17

There are four groupings shown in the diagram – one for capabilities that are provided by international

organizations, one for capabilities provided by United States Government organizations, one for capabilitiesprovidedbyNOAA,andforcapabilitiesprovidedbyNGE.

RESULTSOFTHEBUSINESSARCHITECTUREANALYSIS

TheBusinessArchitecturedevelopmenteffortandtheassociatedGapAnalysisdiscoveredpotentialnear-term

andlong-terminvestmentopportunitiesonthepathtotransitioningtothedesiredend-stateofthe2022TargetEnterprise Architecture. This includes new capabilities, existing mission-specific capabilities that should becombinedandappliedenterprisewide,andexistingcapabilitiesthatshouldbeenhancedandappliedacrosstheenterprise.Thefollowingisalistofthecandidate,businessprocessmigrationopportunitiesascertainedduringthedevelopmentoftheNGEBusinessArchitecture:18

Infrastructure – Investment in enterprise infrastructure capabilitiesmigratesmission-specific capabilities to

theenterprisewithattendantsavingsinacquisition,maintenanceandsustainment.Algorithm R&D – Investment in enterprise algorithm research and development capabilities consolidates

mission-focused algorithm sustainment and maintenance activities into an enterprise capability that supportsalgorithm research, development, deployment, maintenance and sustainment with savings in the time fromresearchtooperationsandsignificantreductioninthenumberofalgorithmversionsthatneedtobesupported.


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ProductGeneration– Investment inenterpriseproductgenerationcapabilitiesconsolidatesmission-focusedproductgenerationintoanenterprise-wideproductgenerationcapability.It isexpectedtheenterprisecapabilitywillbebuiltonenterpriseinfrastructureservices,therebyachievingsavingsinCOTSlicensing,systemsustainmentandmaintenance.

Enterprise Engineering – Investment in enterprise engineering capabilities consolidates mission-focused

management activities into enterprise engineering services providing enterprise-level tools and processes forconfiguration management, requirements management, acquisition management, facility management, qualitymanagement and risk management with savings in engineering, licensing and system sustainment andmaintenance.

These opportunities will be thoroughly assessed in conjunction with the ISA analysis to be completed in

upcomingmonths.AstheEnterpriseArchitectureworkcontinues,earlyinvestmentsinenterprisecapabilitiesarealreadymaturingwithinOSGS.

EARLYENTERPRISEELEMENTS

BeforetheConceptofOperationswasdraftedNESDISleadershiprecognizedtwoearlyopportunitiestoapply

an enterprise approach to existing needs. OSGS now leads development of two systems, the EnvironmentalSatelliteProcessingandDistributionSystem(ESPDS)andtheComprehensiveLargeArray-dataStewardshipSystem(CLASS)thatembodytheenterpriseprinciplesdescribedabove.

The Environmental Satellite Processing and Distribution System (ESPDS)19 is being developed by the Solers

Corp under a contract awarded in August 2010. It modernizes the existing Environmental Satellite ProcessingCenter(ESPC),operatedbytheNESDISOfficeofSatelliteandProductOperations,withanenterprisesolutionthatmeets some of the needs of legacy, GOES-R, S-NPP/JPSS, and GCOM-W satellite programs, with scalability tosupport future environmental satellites. It includes modernization of the Product Generation (PG), ProductDistribution(PD),andInfrastructuresegmentsoftheESPC(withIngestasapotentialfuturemodernization),andprovidesenvironmentalsatellitedataandservicestoagrowingusercommunityincludingtheNOAALineOffices(NWS, NMFS, NOS, NIC, NESDIS, etc.), DoD (AFWA, NAVO, etc.), and other U.S. and international users(government, universities, foreign partners, etc.). ESPDS provides a scalable and secure infrastructure as afoundational building block upon which all other system functions and services reside. It leverages commoninfrastructureandprocessingservices,reducingredundancyandcostswhilesimplifyingoperations,maintenance,monitoring,andsecurity.

The ESPDS User Portal provides user self-service subscription and search capabilities across all NESDIS

products,eliminatinglaborrequiredwiththecurrentmanualsubscriptionmethod.Approveduserscanmanagetheir data access details (product customization, selection and transfer method) and exercise greater datadiscovery (via the online catalog). Enterprise Shared Storage reduces transfers of data, reducing resourcerequirementsandimprovingreliability.ESPDSisbuiltonaService-OrientedArchitecture(SOA)thatprovidesthefollowingbenefits:1)Extensibility:Theloosecouplingofservicesallowstheabilitytoaddnewfunctionalitytothesystem without impacting the existing capabilities; 2) Reusability: ESPDS services will be usable for futureintegration,benefittingfuturegovernmentsystems;3)Modularity:ESPDSservicescanbeupgradedandreplacedeasily.


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ESPDS will be fielded at the primary and backup ESPC sites. The primary ESPC site is the NOAA SatelliteOperationsFacility(NSOF)inSuitland,MD;thefutureESPCbackupsiteistheConsolidatedBackUp(CBU)facilityinFairmont,WV. Theprogram ison-track toprovidedistributionofsomeGOES-Rproducts following its launch in1Q17. ESPDS will also generate products and distribute data from the JPSS satellites, with the first launchscheduledfor2Q17.

The Comprehensive Large Array-data Stewardship System (CLASS)20 development contractwas awarded to

DGP,ajointventurebetweenDBConsulting(8a)andGlobalScience&TechnologyInc.,inMarch2008.CLASSwasdeveloped to support long-term, secure storage of NOAA-approved data, information, and metadata, and toenable access to these holdings through both human and machine-to-machine interfaces. Capabilities areprovidedin3primaryfunctionalareasasdefinedbytheOpenArchiveInformationSystemReferenceModel(OAIS-RM):1)Ingest-mechanismsbywhichdata,information,andmetadataaretransferredtoandorganizedwithinthestoragesystem;2)ArchivalStorage-commonenterprisemeansfordata,information,andmetadatatobestoredbythesystemandthecapabilitytorefresh,migrate,transform,update,andotherwisemanagetheseholdingsaspartofthepreservationprocess;3)Access-commonenterpriseaccesscapabilityenablinguserstoidentify,find,andretrievethedataandinformationofparticularinteresttotheuser.

Asanenterprisesolution,CLASS isanticipatedtoreducecostgrowthassociatedwithstoringenvironmental

datasetsbyconsolidatingstove-pipe,legacyarchivalstoragesystemsandrelievingdataownersofarchivalstorage-relatedsystemdevelopmentandoperations issues. CLASS isnot intendedtosupportnear-real-timeormission-criticalproductdelivery. CLASSconsistsoftwofullreplicatedstoragenodeshostedbyNOAA’sNationalCentersfor Environmental Information (NCEI) located atAshevilleNC andBoulder CO. Receipt nodes at located at theNOAASatelliteOperationsFacility(NSOF)inSuitland,MD,andtheConsolidatedBackupFacility(CBU)atFairmont,WV. The current capacityof theCLASS system is 20PB,withprojectedgrowth to53PBby2020. CLASS is anevolvingoperationalsystemcurrentlysupportingthefollowingusers:

-NOAAPolar-orbitingOperationalEnvironmentalSatellites(POES)-USDepartmentofDefense(DoD)polarorbitingsatellites-NOAAGeostationaryOperationalEnvironmentalSatellites(GOES)-CanadianSpaceAgency'sSyntheticApertureRadarSatellites(Radarsat)-EuropeanMeteorologicalOperationalSatellite(MetOp)Program-OceanSurfaceTopographyMission(OSTM)Jason-2andJason-3CLASSdevelopmentisforecasttobecompletedin2017.

MANAGINGCHANGE

This paper has addressed the technical and programmatic activities necessary to chart the transition fromstand-alone to integrated ground systems. The good news is that the technologies to accomplish thistransformationalreadyexistandhavebeensuccessfullyappliedtosimilarlycomplexproblemsinotherindustries–thereisnounobtainium.Thebiggestchallengesassociatedwiththistransformationarecultural.Teammembersacross the spectrumofgroundenterprise jobshavebeensuccessful formanyyearsdoing things the traditionalway. Nowweareasking them to recognize that the traditionalway isno longer scalableor affordable, and toadoptnewroles,jobdefinitions,andtools.Thetransformationisaboutchangemanagement.


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TheOSGS leadership team is investing significant time and effort socializing the benefits and opportunitiesenabled by an integrated enterprise. The team sought and gained agreement from all the other NESDISorganizations on the Concept of Operations described above. It facilitated formation of a Ground EnterpriseExecutiveBoard21co-chairedbytheDirectorsofOSGSandOperationsandattendedbyalltheotherDirectors.Itmeetsevery8weeks,facilitatingcommunicationanddecision-makingattheDirector level. Attheworkinglevelthe Enterprise ArchitectureWorkingGroupmeets frequently, providing a forum for all NESDIS organizations toreview and vector the architecture artifacts before they are finalized. TheOSGS team is also looking hard foropportunitiesforearlywinsthatillustratethebenefitsofenterprisethinkingonanon-threateningscale.Likewisethe team seeks to implement the change initiatives flowing from the Transition and Sequencing Plan in small,digestibleincrements.Thestrategyistoemploymultiplesmall,evolutionarychangesthatproducearevolutionaryresult.

TOWARDSTHEFUTURE

OSGS isdrivingthedevelopmentofa future IntegratedGroundEnterprisethatoffersnumerousadvantages

overthetraditionalstand-aloneapproachtosystemdevelopmentandoperation.Activitiestorealizethedesiredend state are well underway, including completion of a Concept of Operations and initiation of EnterpriseArchitectureanalyses.Complementingtheseactivities,OSGSisfieldingpioneeringenterpriseproductgeneration,distribution,andarchivesystemsthatareon-track tosupportupcomingsatellite launches. Supportingall theseendeavorsisacommunicationandoutreachapproachdesignedtoaddressthechallengesofchangemanagement.

Acknowledgements

Dr. Scott Turner (Aerospace Corporation) played an essential role in the development of the Concept of

Operations.Mr.RayBeamer(AerospaceCorporation)leadstheEnterpriseArchitectureTeam,whichincludesDr.Stephen Marley and Mr. Patrick Barnes (Jeffries Technology Solutions Inc.), Mr. Gene Nicholson (MonumentDecisionAnalysis,Inc.),andMr.TedUnnikumaranandMr.ChuckMarkham(NoblisInc.).Theopinionsexpressedinthispaperareentirelythoseoftheauthor.

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