NetCentric Enterprise Services NCES Leveraging Network Science Research

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Net-Centric Enterprise Services (NCES)
Leveraging Network Science Research

• Dr. Edward M. Siomacco
• Vice Director, GIG Enterprise Services PEO
• edward.siomacco_at_disa.mil
• 12 June 2006

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Agenda

• Program Background
• Concept of Operations
• Capability Descriptions
• Typical Use Case
• Candidate Network Science Research Areas
• Potential Next Steps

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Program Background

• Program Designation - Acquisition Category (ACAT)
  1 Major Automated Information
  System (MAIS) Program
• Milestone Decision Authority (MDA) Mr. John
  Grimes, ASD(NII) DoD CIO
• Milestone A (Begin Technology Demonstration) 23
  July 2004
• Joint Requirements Oversight Council (JROC)
  assigns Joint Program Designator (JPD) JROC
  Interest
• On 22 May 06, JROC validated NCES Increment I
  Capability Development Document (CDD) with JROCM
  096-06.
• Milestone B (Begin System Development Demo) 9
  March 2007
• Commander, USSTRATCOM designated NCES Increment I
  Operational Sponsor 5 April 2007
• Planned Milestone C (Begin Production) March
  2008
• Increment I Initial Operational Capability (IOC)
  January 2009

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Advancing the Global Net-Centric Data Environment
In order to quickly move the Department of
Defense into a net-centric environment,
USSTRATCOM is taking immediate action to
transition global information assets from current
stove-piped, point-to-point systems to a
service-oriented architecture. The USSTRATCOM
plan is to define and document the process for
data exposure prior to January 2007. Beginning in
January 2007, we will demonstrate data exposure
in 90-day phases. To support data exposure, DISA
will accelerate implementation of the required
Net-Centric Enterprise Services (NCES) and other
activities. Our collective efforts will ensure
we deliver an improved net-centric capability
that is interdependent, flexible, and responsive
to the dynamic strategic and operational
challenges facing the nation.
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The DoD Enterprise Portfolio (as defined by DoDD
8115.01 - Oct 10, 2005)
User/Entity
Business Mission Area
DoD portion of the Intelligence Mission Area
Warfighting Mission Area
Tactical
Strategic/Operational
Enterprise Information Environment Mission Area
(EIEMA)
The EIEMA portfolio comprises the foundational IT
capabilities that support and enable the other
DoD Mission Areas and network-centric operations.
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Concept of Operations Summary

• NCES Increment I, as well as all subsequent
  increments, will provide high performance service
  to users connected to a Defense Information
  System Network (DISN) Point of Presence, and will
  extend services from the core to the edge users
  subject to the Commanders Intent for bandwidth
  usage and information policy.
• NCES will provide enterprise level services to
  the warfighter, business, and intelligence legacy
  environments and support process, doctrine, and
  organizational transformations to enable
  Communities of Interest (COIs) and mission
  applications to plug and play across the
  enterprise.
• NCES expects COIs and/or Program of Records
  (PORs) will web-enable applications and define
  taxonomies and ontologies and Information owners
  will tag data in conformance with DoDD 8320.2,
  Data Sharing in a Net-Centric Department of
  Defense.
• NCES Increment II will extend enterprise level
  services to the tactical warfighter edge to
  enable disconnected and low bandwidth
  applications and unanticipated users

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Net-Centric Enterprise ServicesMacro Perspective
NCES Capabilities
Service Oriented Architecture Foundation
Data Services
Content Discovery Delivery
User Access via DKO
Enterprise Collaboration
NCES Users
Global Combat Support System
Distributed Common Ground System
Net-Enabled Command Capability
Defense Technical Information Center
Theater Battle Management Control System
Global Command Control System
Integrated Strategic Planning Analysis Network
National Geospatial-Intelligence Services
Communities of Interest
NCES Early Capabilities Baseline Users
NCES is delivering capabilities to enable the
Departments Net-Centric Transformation!
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Enterprise Services Description
Ability to operate in a secure environment
Real-time update and alert notification as
information changes
Confidence that enterprise services are
available and reliable
Ability to develop and reuse capabilities
regardless of platform increased
flexibility and agility
Locate people and network resources
NCES
Exchange data with unanticipated users in
unanticipated formats
Interoperability of data with shared
semantics
Web-based source for information on NCES and
access to its services
Access to shared/ stored data improved
shared awareness
Improved Quality of Service
Communicate in real-time using voice, text,
and video sessions
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NCES Use Case
COI, POR, C/S/A Data Sources populated from
applications, databases, web content, etc.
Capabilities
Interfaces
COI (e.g. C2 Space Situational Awareness)
Enterprise Services DECC Columbus and San
Antonio
EC
Enterprise Catalog
POR (e.g. GeoScout)
FS
Federated Search
DS
DS
DS
DS
External Applications, Services, and Data Sources
DS
DS
Monitored by ESM
DS
Intermittently connected users may post metadata
to the Enterprise Catalog
Query is federated and results returned.
Users
DS
Data Source
NCES Fed Search Aggregator
Enterprise Web Content is crawled and indexed
NCES Service Discovery
NCES Security Service
NCES Enterprise Catalog
User Authorized by NCES Security Services
Aggregated results returned
Fed Search Aggregator discovers data sources from
Service Discovery
User Submits Search Query
DS (Web Enabled)
DS (Web Enabled)
User Logs into Portal or COI Application
Results viewed by user
NCES Enterprise Services Management
Content is delivered to the nearest location (via
Content Delivery)
ESM forwards results to NetOps
ESM monitors performance and usage across the
network
User request content
NCES enables information sharing within and
betweenPrograms and Communities of Interest
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CandidateNetwork Science Research Areas

• Scalability problem (i.e., the inability of a
  system to accommodate an increased workload) is
  not new. However, the increasing size and
  complexity of net-centric architectures makes the
  problem more critical
• Adaptive Mediation . . . "a layer of intelligent
  middleware services in information systems,
  linking data resources and application programs".
  the integration of various data resources
  (databases,web services or devices) and
  application programs.
• Characterize, compare and contrast
  network-centric software architectures (e.g.,
  client-server architecture, distributed objects
  architecture, service-oriented architecture, and
  peer-to-peer architecture).

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CandidateNetwork Science Research Areas

• Advanced content search techniques (structured
  unstructured data) to access data sources on low
  bandwidth networks
• Deployment of passive enterprise service
  management mobile agents to monitor and detect
  service-level performance and potential
  vulnerabilities
• Federate enterprise service discovery techniques
  including governance of service provisioning and
  configuration management
• Distributed workflow/orchestration methods across
  tactical environments
• Investigate new means of access to enterprise
  services (e.g., wireless networking) including
  new ways of using existing commercial
  service-oriented architectures products.

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Potential Next Steps

• Continue RDTE partnerships with other Programs
  of Record, i.e., Armys Future Combat System
  (emerging NCES Increment II capability)
• Leverage and team with Intelligence Community
  research development activities, i.e.,
  Department of National Intelligence (DNI) and
  National Security Agency (NSA)
• Plan and Conduct joint demonstrations
  experiments during JFEX 08 April 2008
• Coordinate on applied research projects (e.g.,
  Network Science Research Initiatives) with DARPA
  and/or Service Component ST organizations
• Collaborate with NATO C3 Agency (NC3A) on allied
  and coalition enterprise services architectures

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