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Air Force Weather Agency

DoD TRANFORMATION:NET-CENTRIC

OPERATIONS & WARFARE

Mr. Michael HowlandAFWA Technical Director/CIO

20 Jun 04

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Overview

Need for Transformation Information Age Transformation Net-Centric Operations & Warfare (NCOW)

Old System-of-Systems Approach Net-Centric Approach

Net-Centric Information Technology Attributes Enablers Web Services Data Strategy

Impacts on Meteorology and Oceanography (METOC) Community

Summary

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Driven by changing strategic environment (9-11 & Global War on Terrorism)

U.S. military superiority cannot be assumed in future Information Age technologies proliferate U.S. dominance will increasingly be challenged in novel ways

Growing asymmetric threats requires new thinking

Force-on-force challenges likely to increase Adversaries seek to take advantage of changes in global

power relations resulting from transition to Information Age

Tech changes make military transformation imperative Opportunity to leverage U.S. competitive advantage

Need for DoD Transformation

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Information Age Transformation

Translates an Information AdvantageInformation Advantage into a decisive Warfighting AdvantageWarfighting Advantage Information Advantage -Information Advantage - enabled by the robust networking of well informedwell informed geographically dispersed forces Characterized by:

Information sharingInformation sharing Shared situational awarenessShared situational awareness Knowledge of commander’s intentKnowledge of commander’s intent

Warfighting Advantage -Warfighting Advantage - exploits behavioral change and new doctrine to enable:

Self-synchronization Speed of command Increased combat power

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Old System of SystemsApproach

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System of SystemsN-squared Problem

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The Solution:Net-Centric

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The Solution: Net Centric Operations & Warfare (NCOW)

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Dynamic Battle Management: ““human-supervised, human-supervised, automated C2”automated C2” Seamless Connectivity Deliver Timely Actionable Information: “automated “automated machine-to-machine” ops “thereby enabling force machine-to-machine” ops “thereby enabling force application in single-digit minutes from the decision to application in single-digit minutes from the decision to engagement”engagement” “Our goal is to see first, understand first, and act first.” General John P. Jumper; Chief of Staff, United States Air Force

Key IT Desired NCOW Effects

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Key Net-Centric IT Attributes

Internet Protocol Data packets routed across network, not dedicated circuits

Only Handle Info Once (OHIO) Data posted by authoritative sources and visible, available, usable to accelerate decision making

Post in parallel Business process owners make their data available on the net as soon as it is created

Smart pull (vice smart push) Applications encourage discovery; users can pull data directly from the net or use value-added discovery services

Data centric Data separate from applications; apps talk to each other by posting data

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Key Net-Centric IT Transformational Enablers

Global Information Grid (GIG) - Bandwidth Expansion Building the DoD IT Infrastructure Connectivity to the “tip of the spear”

GIG Enterprise Services (GES) Nine Core Enterprise Services (CES) Community of Interest (COI) Enterprise Services

New DoD Net-Centric Data Strategy (COI based)

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Key Net-Centric IT Enabler: GIG Enterprise Services

Nine Core Enterprise Services User Assistant – user profilers Discovery – search activities Collaboration Messaging – exchange of info Mediation – transformation processing, situational awareness support, negotiation, & publishing Storage – physical and virtual Application – common enterprise apps & functions Security – IA, system & net security Enterprise Systems Management – keep it all running smoothly

COI Enterprise Services Functionality unique to COI – examples within METOC COI

e.g. Grid interpolation & translation, METSAT projection conversion, units conversion, product format conversion, etc.

Web Services Based

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XMLXML

ProgrammabilityProgrammabilityConnectivityConnectivity

HTMLHTML

PresentationPresentation

TCP/IPTCP/IP

Technology

Technology

Innovation

Innovation

FTP,FTP, E-mail, Gopher

E-mail, GopherWeb Pages

Web Pages

Browse Browse the Webthe Web

Program Program the Webthe Web

Web Services

Web Services

Web Services Evolution

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Standard way of integrating web-based applications

Based on standards: IP: Standard internet backbone protocol SOAP: Session control protocol UDDI: Discovery protocol WSDL: Description of services XML: Tagging data

What are Web Services?

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Break down the silo walls and enables standard application interoperability

Ideal for machine-to-machine communications

Web services are the ultimate in re-usable code

Integrate functionality of disparite systems into an integral system-of-systems

Why Web Services?

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DoD’s Net-Centric Data Strategy

The Net-Centric Data Strategy (signed May 9, 2003) is key enabler of DoD’s transformation

The Strategy provides foundation for managing the DoD’s data in a net-centric environment, including:

Ensuring data are visible, accessible, and understandable when needed and where needed to accelerate decision making

“Tagging” of all data (intelligence, non-intelligence, raw, and processed) with metadata to enable discovery by known and unanticipated users in the Enterprise

Posting of all data to shared spaces for users to access except when limited by security, policy, or regulations

Organizing around Communities of Interest (COIs) that are supported by Warfighter, Business, and Intelligence Domains

The Strategy addresses data environment barriers…

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DoD Net-Centric Data Strategy Goals

Enable Data to beEnable Data to beTrustedTrusted

Enable DataEnable DataInteroperabilityInteroperability

Make DataMake DataAccessibleAccessible

Enable Data to beEnable Data to beUnderstandableUnderstandable

Make Data VisibleMake Data Visible

Key Goals Key Actions: Make Data Assets Available to the

Enterprise: Use metadata to describe & advertise

data assets (e.g., documents, web pages, images, etc).

Create data asset catalogs & organize by community-defined structure (ontology).

Post data assets to shared space where Enterprise users can access it

Make System Data and Processes Available to the Enterprise:

Define & register format & semantics of system data & processes

Provide reusable/easy-to-call access services to make system data & processes available to the Enterprise

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Net-Centric Data CONOPS

Understands the dataformat to build applicationsthat post, process,exchange, and display

information.

Developer

GlobalInformation

Grid

MetadataCatalogs

Enterprise &CommunityServices Application Services

(e.g., Web)

Shared DataSpace

MetadataRegistries

Security Services(e.g., PKI,

SAML)

Streaming video available. “Tagged” with discovery metadata; video available in “shared space” via data access service. Metadata added to catalog.

Producer

Automated search of sources using discovery metadata. Pull data of interest. Using registered format, definitions, and core services, translate into needed structure.

Consumer

Producers of data maketheir data visible by advertising their data in catalogs

Producers ensure data is accessible by posting data to a secure, shared storage space

Consumers of data search catalogs to discovery what data assets are visible

Data is accessed from shared storage space

Consumer understands what the data is because its context and structure are described

The structure and semantics of certain data assets are provided by developers increasing the ability to understand and use the data asset

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Impacts on METOC Community

Data, products, and knowledge seamlessly integrated in the warfighters decision cycle

Family of Interoperable Picture (FIOP) overlays Seamless machine-to-machine operations Stand-alone systems gone with the dinosaurs Data integration requires common mapping & geo-locatable data & products (Geospatial Information & Services (GI&S)

Requires a data-centric focus vs. product-centric Should reduce bandwidth – warfighters get what they need not everything we have available Tougher to plan communications bandwidth needs

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Impacts on METOC Community (cont)

Data posted to the GIG ASAP Distributed net-centric functionality required Warfighter dynamically defines what they want through discovery of posted METOC data Unit-level obs available to GIG at unit level?

Current METOC stovepipe, value-added functionality available on the GIG as METOC COI enterprise services

Domain authority, product style, formats, translations, interpolation, METSAT projection conversion, unit conversion, etc.

Weather Tactical Decision Aids (TDAs) integrated with other COI TDAs: not a stand-alone operation

TDAs - a METOC COI enterprise service on the GIG TDAs apps will be integrated into warfighter systems

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Summary

DoD Transformation is here! Centered around NCOW

Maximizing capabilities of existing and planned systems Dynamic, fast paced environment

DoD METOC must change to meet demands of NCOW DoD NCOW implications for cross federal and international agency information sharing?????

Implications of Web Services Implications of DoD Data Strategy and use of XML How do we bridge DoD mandates with Agency policies, WMO, ICAO, and IHO?