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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?