A COI Success Story: Maritime Domain Awareness Data Sharing Community of Interest MDA DS COI

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A COI Success StoryMaritime Domain Awareness
Data Sharing Community of Interest (MDA DS COI)
DoD Net-Centric Data Strategy (DS) and Community
of Interest (COI) Training

• 2-Day Training
• Version 08.2

For further information email OSD at
COI_HelpDesk_at_osd.mil
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Purpose

• To provide an example of successful COI
  information sharing an approach that you can
  recommend to your senior leadership

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Outline

• Setting the stage
• Pilot description and demonstration
• Successes
• Challenges
• Summary

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Some Staggering Statistics

• 95,000 miles of linear US shoreline
• 3.5 million square miles of open ocean under US
  jurisdiction
• 7,000,000 cargo containers enter US each year
• 10,000 freighters making 51,000 calls
• 300 ports of entry
• 55 military economic strategic ports 93 of
  cargo throughput
• Most ports located in close proximity to dense
  populations and military bases
• 13 million registered boats and millions more
  unregistered

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NSPD-41 / HSPD-13

• National Security Presidential Directive-41 /
  Homeland Security Presidential Directive-13
• Signed by President Bush on 21 December 2004
• Established a Maritime Security Policy
  Coordinating Committee to oversee the development
  of a National Strategy for Maritime Security and
  eight supporting plans
• First coordinating committee tasked specifically
  to address this issue
• Represents a comprehensive national effort to
  enhance the security of the United States by
  preventing hostile or illegal acts within the
  Maritime Domain

By signing NSPD-41 / HSPD-13, President Bush
underscored the importance of securing the
Maritime Domain
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Definition of Terms
Maritime Domain All areas and things
relating toa sea, ocean, or other navigable
waterway including all maritime-related
activities, infrastructure, people, cargo, and
vessels and other conveyances National Plan to
Achieve MDA October 2005
Maritime Domain Awareness The understanding
of anything associated with the global maritime
domain that could impact the security, safety,
economy, or environment of the United
States National Plan to Achieve MDA October 2005
Awareness grants time and distance to detect,
deter, interdict, and defeat adversaries
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The MDA Challenge
Share data from disparate sources - Commercial
- Law Enforcement - Foreign Partners -
Military

• Develop Maritime Domain Awareness
• Correlate information
• Information Data Context

Exploit anomalies and identify threats
70 of information needed for MDA already
exists. The trick get the information you need,
when you need it, regardless of who owns it.
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Spiral 1 Pilot

• Problem
• Unanticipated users are unable to discover and
  subscribe to Automatic Identification System
  (AIS) information
• Purpose
• To publish vessel position reports from
  Automatic Identification System (AIS) Aggregation
  Centers (i.e., US Coast Guard (USCG), Office of
  Naval Intelligence (ONI), Navy, and Department of
  Transportation)  to authorized subscribers and
  graphically display that data on several
  visualization tools (e.g., Google Earth, Google
  Maps).

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Setting the Stage Automated Identification
System (AIS)

• Before AIS Vessel positions observed
• Observations shared via human, phone/radio, radar
  or other sensor
• Difficult to get accurate position information
  when transmitted orally
• After AIS Vessel positions self-reporting
• AIS complements existing means of data collection
• Vessels self-report using GPS and transmit a
  standard binary format
• Reports are more robust and more accurate (GPS)
• AIS can be combined and correlated with other
  information sources (e.g., RADAR, GMTI, ELINT)
• AIS Aggregation Centers collect and deliver AIS
  data
• Centers aggregate data from AIS receiver stations
  within a geographic region and deliver resulting
  feed to consumers
• But there are limitations
• Regionalized processing
• Point-to-Point Sharing
• Many format translations

AIS is a fundamental component of MDA
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Maritime Domain Awareness Data Sharing (MDA DS)
COI Pilot

• MDA DS COI Objectives
• Provide risk reduction for Programs of Record
  (PoRs)
• Develop repeatable processes for service reuse
  and NCES adoption
• Pre-Pilot
• Implementation experience with Net Centric
  Enterprise Services (NCES) was scarce
• No documented process for NCES adoption and
  service implementation
• Achieved and demonstrated Spiral 1 in eight
  months
• Post-Pilot
• Extended the reach and accessibility of AIS for
  known and unanticipated users
• Proven, repeatable process provides risk
  reduction for PoRs
• First Provider six weeks required to expose
  data as a service
• Last Provider five days required to expose data
  as a service
• Realized that NCES implementation and service
  development are relatively easy

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Maritime Domain Awareness (MDA) COI Pilot
Gain knowledge of global maritime environment
through net-centric exploitation of legacy
Automatic Identification System (AIS) sources
fromNavy (DoD), Coast Guard (DHS), Department of
Transportation (DoT)

• Eight Month Effort to Deliver Capability
• Sources tagged with discovery metadata(VISIBLE)
• NCES servicesprovide dataaccess to DOD/DHS
  users (ACCESSIBLE)
• Commonvocabulary,schema describes shared
  information (UNDERSTANDABLE)

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
US NAVY
NAVAL INTEL
US COAST GUARD
CORE SERVICES (DISCOVERY, MESSAGING, SECURITY)
HLS USER
DOD USER
Extends the Reach of High Value Information and
Overall Situational Awareness Accommodates
Unanticipated Users
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Information Exchange Vocabulary The Schema
The schema specifies the syntax and semantics for
the information exchanges
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Information Exchange Vocabulary The Instance
The instance provides an example of what actually
goes across the wire and it complies with the
schema
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Before Spiral 1
After Spiral 1

• Each connection requires a hole in an
  organizations firewall
• Not secure
• Policy processes for opening a port can take
  considerable time
• No common formats for point-to-point connections
  Requires many translations
• Does not scale for unanticipated users
• Data providers must transmit the same information
  several different times
• Each provider has different authentication
  mechanisms
• Forces consumers to implement each
• Data assets not visible or discoverable

• Does not require opening a non-default port for
  asynchronous messaging
• One port required to be open if using synchronous
  messaging
• More secure
• Common vocabulary shared between all producers
  and consumers
• Scales for unanticipated users
• Data providers transmit data once and the core
  services route to subscribers
• Common, shared authentication mechanisms
• Data assets are now visible and discoverable

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Automatic Identification System (AIS)
Demonstration

• What you are about to see
• Login to https//mda.spawar.navy.mil/mdads/ using
  Common Access Card (CAC)
• Select Google Earth Mediation Service
• Google Earth available for download at
  http//earth.google.com/download-earth.html
• Google Maps Mediation Service exists as well
• Select desired geographical region
• View vessel position reports in Google Earth

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Google Earth
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Google Earth
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Major Outcome Catalyst and Pathfinder for Change

• Dec 2006 VADM Edwards (OPNAV N6) The MDA DS COI
  is an exemplar for transformation of my
  equities.
• U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) and National Maritime
  Intelligence Center (NMIC) adopting same approach
  to expose data assets

Informed JCIDS, PPBE, and Acquisition
processes Total Spiral 1 cost 1M
JCIDS Joint Capabilities Integration and
Development System PPBE Planning Programming
Budgeting and Execution
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Successes

• Reduced risk and developed a set of repeatable
  processes that other programs and COIs can
  leverage
• Extended reach, visibility, and accessibility of
  high-value Automated Identification System (AIS)
  information
• Developed used a common, community agreed upon
  vocabulary
• Implemented common assured access mechanisms
  via NCES
• Simplified access with unanticipated user in-mind
• Provided a pathfinder for improved information
  sharing
• Established governance processes
• Improved cross-agency collaboration

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Challenges

• Need to know vs Responsibility to share
• Funding delivery of capabilities in the year of
  execution
• Proprietary and regulatory concerns
• Licensing of commercial sources may restrict data
  dissemination
• Sharing amongst foreign partners, law enforcement
  agencies, commercial entities, and port
  authorities
• MOAs/MOUs may prohibit the sharing of information
  with other partners
• Implementing Attribute Based Access Control
• Consumer reliance upon persistent pilot service

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Summary

• COI had cross-department, cross-agency
  involvement and senior level engagement
• COI identified high-value information to make
  visible (i.e., AIS)
• Spiral 1 - Eight Month Effort to Deliver
  Capability
• Sources tagged with discovery metadata(VISIBLE)
• NCES Services provide data access to DOD and DHS
  users (ACCESSIBLE)
• Common vocabulary schema describes shared
  information (UNDERSTANDABLE)
• Spiral 1 was a catalyst for change and
  transformation
• Tight scope and focus were paramount to success

You can recommend this same approach to your
leadership when solving information sharing
problems
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A COI Success Story Maritime Domain Awareness
Data Sharing (MDA DS)Backup Charts
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Maritime Security Policy and MDA
NSPD 41 / HSPD 13
Maritime Transportation System Security
National Strategy Maritime Security All
Threats (Defense and Security)
Domestic Outreach
Maritime Infrastructure Recovery
International Outreach and Coordination
Maritime Commerce Security
National Plan to Achieve Maritime Domain
Awareness
Global Maritime Intelligence Integration (GMII)
Maritime Operational Threat Response
Global Maritime Situational Awareness (GMSA)
Maritime Domain Awareness GMII GMSA
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Maritime Domain Awareness
The heart of the Maritime Domain Awareness
program is accurate information, intelligence,
surveillance, and reconnaissance of all vessels,
cargo, and people extending well beyond our
traditional maritime boundaries. President
Bush January 20, 2002
Maritime Domain Awareness will be achieved by
improving our ability to collect, fuse, analyze,
display, and disseminate actionable information
and intelligence to operational
commanders. National Plan to Achieve
MDA October 2005

• Awareness grants time and distance to detect,
  deter, interdict, and defeat adversaries

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Governance Structure
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Spiral 1 AIS Coverage
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Google Earth
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Google Earth
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Discovery Use Case
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Access Use Case
MDA DS COI
USCG OSC
ONI AMRS
Navy Organic
Volpe
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NCES Messaging Service
Messages Received (in COI Vocab)
Messages Received (in COI Vocab)
Subscription Request
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How to Subscribe?

• Google Earth
• Make sure you have installed Google Earth
  (available at http//earth.google.com/download-ea
  rth.html)
• Insert Common Access Card (CAC) into machine
• Navigate web-browser to https//mda.solers.com/mda
  ds/gearth.htm and follow instructions
• Google Maps
• Insert Common Access Card (CAC) into machine
• Navigate web-browser to https//mda.solers.com/mda
  ds/gmaps.htm and follow instructtions
• Custom Client
• Insert Common Access Card (CAC) into machine
• Navigate web-browser to COI Developers
  Information Page at https//mda.solers.com/mdads/d
  evelopers.htm and follow instructions
• Note This will involve some software
  development expertise

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