The Power of Wiki

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The Power of Wikis Intellipedia, Diplopedia,
and DTICs New DoDTechipedia April 6, 2009 Ms.
Helen Q. Sherman
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The Power of Wikis Intellipedia,Diplopedia, and
DTICs New DoDTechipedia

• Mr. Chris K. Rasmussen
• Knowledge Manager, Intellipedia
• National Geospatial Intelligence Agency
• Ms. Tiffany L. Smith
• Project Lead, Diplopedia
• U.S. Department of State

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The Power of Wikis Intellipedia,Diplopedia, and
DTICs New DoDTechipedia

• Mr. Noel Dickover
• DoDTechipedia Consultant
• Networks Information Integration (NII)/DoD
  CIO
• Mr. George Guy Thomas
• Science Technology Advisor
• Department of Homeland Security

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Intellipedia

• The Power of Wikis Intellipedia
• Wiki of the U.S. Intelligence community
• Project of the Office of the Director of National
  Intelligence (ODNI) Intelligence Community
  Enterprise Services (ICES)
• Uses MediaWiki, the same software used by
  Wikipedia
• Announced in 2006
• Speaker Mr. Chris Rasmussen

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The Power of Wikis Diplopedia

• DTIC Conference
• Alexandria, VA
• April 6, 2009

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U.S. Department of State

• Basic Roles
• Make and execute foreign policy
• Provide consular and passport services
• Manage official U.S. presence abroad
• 57,000 employees worldwide
• Produces high volume of knowledge

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Knowledge Leadership Initiative

• Knowledge often hard to access
• Knowledge Leadership Access and contribute
  knowledge anywhere, anytime
• How were pursuing it
• Self-forming, self-managing online communities
• Central repository for knowledge
• Connecting to expertise
• Integrating with enterprise search
• Keeping it simple through social media that make
  knowledge-sharing part of the daily workflow

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Official Communications
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Diplopedia
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Article
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Program portal
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Categories

• Categories for each article

• lead to other resources

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Statistics
Total Users
Total Articles

• As of 9 March 2009
• 6,824 articles
• 1,596 registered users
• Approximately 1,000 page views per day

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More Statistics
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How to Measure Value

• Quantitative
• 1,000 views per week
• 173 growth in substantive articles in one
  calendar year
• Qualitative
• Popular article topics range from foreign
  biographies to mail services
• Anecdotal
• The U.S. Embassy in Rome uses Diplopedia to
  provide a more open and accessible means to find
  information about the country and its political,
  social and economic leaders.

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Contact and Reference Materials

• Tiffany Smith
• Presidential Management Fellow
• Project Lead, Diplopedia
• Office of eDiplomacy
• smithtl7_at_state.gov
• More information
• eDiplomacy page on the State Department web site
• http//www.state.gov/m/irm/ediplomacy
• For State Department regulations on collaboration
  tools,
• Google 5 FAM 777

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DoDTechipedia Our Warfighters Need Your Ideas
https//www.dodtechipedia.mil
Noel Dickover DoD CIO, IT Investment and
Commercial Policy (ITICP) Directorate Emerging
Technologies Social Software 703-601-4729x152 No
el.dickover.ctr_at_osd.mil Twitter _at_NoelDickover
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Procurement Cycles

• On average, DoD Acquisition Category One (ACAT
  I) development projects are approaching a 15 year
  procurement cycle1

• At the average, an ACAT I started in 1993 would
  be coming on line today. How do we effectively
  and cost effectively integrate the technologies
  that have emerged in those 15 years?

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1) A Market Reaction to DoD Contract Delay,
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Bringing Emerging Technologies to the DoD
Current state Technologies Enter the
Acquisition Process
Obsolete Technologies Delivered to Warfighter
The DoD Acquisition Process looks like a Black
Hole from the outside
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We need a new capability! Round up the Usual
Suspects
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We Are Not Keeping Pace w/Innovation Cycle

• Why Emerging Tech Companies Dont Come to Us
• They do not know what they want
• The application/bid process takes too long
• Our products are not needed by DoD
• We do not want to work with DoD
• There are too many barriers to the bid process
• No opportunities for firms who have no prior
  contracts with DoD
• I can do fine without them

National Defense University Report to
CongressInformation Technology Program, January
2006
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DoDTechipedias RoleFoster Innovation Through
Collaboration
innovation
ST Community
Requirements Community
Intel Community
Continuous engagement between those with
challenges and those charged to provide solutions
Industry
awareness
improvement
DoD Primes
Acquisition Community
IT Community
response
Foster communication between those with needs and
those with solutions
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Why a Wiki for DoD Technology Collaboration?

• Mass Collaboration addresses Shared Situational
  Awareness problem All stakeholders benefit
• Better ST Community Integration
• Industry gains awareness of DoD needs
• DoD Capability Buyers get improved Market Research

• Success of Wikipedia, Intellipedia make Wikis
  more familiar, especially to Generations X and Y
• Builds on how people are interacting at home and
  at schools
• Increasing awareness of wikis in the DoD ST user
  community is through interaction with
  Intellipedias ST areas
• Low technical barriers to entry
• Browsers based - no specialized tools
• Low bandwidth

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DoDTechipedia Family of Services
DefenseSolutions Portal http//www.defensesolution
s.gov/
DoDTechipedia Internal
Semi-permeable walldaily uploads
DoDTechipedia External
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Who can participate in Internal DoDTechipedia?

• DoDTechipedia opens collaboration to a broad
  community
• DoD Employees Contractors (via CAC registration
  or DTIC Registration)
• Federal Government Employees and Contractors who
  are DTIC registered users (PIV access as DoD
  implements)

• Federal Government wide discussion
• No Acquisition Sensitive no proprietary data

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DoDTechipediahttps//www.dodtechipedia.mil
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Any User Can Edit Content, Add Attachments
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Offers roadmap to implement COTS

• Software Engineering Institute service to help
  Programs assess risks
• Prioritizes the risks and offers mitigation
  strategies

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External Techipedia (Federal-wide?)
Collaboration w/Industry
Enterprise POCsRequirements Personnel Early
Program PersonnelST Personnel
Non-traditional Emerging Tech Researchers Emerging
Tech Vendors
Ongoing Research
Technology Needs
Govt ET, ST Projects
Emerging Tech Products
Roles-based Access
Roles-based Access
DoDTechipedia, Organized byWiki-based Technology
Taxonomies
Doing Business With DoD Lessons Learned Options

• For Each Technology Area, Pilot shows
• State of the practice
• DoD needs
• Current DoD uses
• Near-term ongoing ET research (public info)
• Associated emerging technology products

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National Maritime Awareness Technology
Sub-committee(NMATS)DTIC Conference6 April
2009

• Guy Thomas
• Co-chair
• Guy.thomas_at_uscg.dhs.gov
• 202-372-2591

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Goals

• The principal goals of the NMATS include
• In coordination with the National Office of
  Global Maritime Situational Awareness (OGMSA)
• and the Global Maritime Intelligence Integration
  (GMAII),
• Provide an effective methodology for the federal
  leadership to identify, participate in, and
  influence the technology-related processes and
  events supporting the federal role in the
  development of the nations maritime security.
• DODTECHIPEDIA - Effective Tool to assist Goals!

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Goals (continued)

• In coordination with OGMSA, GMAII and key MCOI
  organizations create a forum for the discovery
  and exploration of innovative acquisition
  processes and products that
• Result in reduced expenditures and/or
• Faster speed to capability in the transition of
  technology to the interagency member
  organizations (ensuring input from relevant
  operational commanders.)

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Basic objectives are

• Assist all users to understand Maritime Domain
  Awareness (MDA) capabilities
• Fielded
• Under Acquisition
• Under Development (6.1 to 6.5)
• It will include
• Systems
• Sub-systems
• Enabling Technologies
• Enable developers to identify sources of
  capabilities
• Enable government RD and acquisition managers to
  identify sources
• Enable sub-systems / Technology developers to
  advertise their capabilities (database becomes an
  MDA Toolbox)
• Provide the potential for fielding capabilities
  more rapidly for both government and
  non-government.

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N M A T S ------WIKI

• https//www.dodtechipedia.mil/dodwiki/display/
  techipedia/InterestAreas
• NO CAC CARD NEEDED
• REGISTER WITH DTIC TO GET A PASSWORD
• CLICK ON LINK ABOVE FOLLOW DIRECTIONS
• SITE IS LIMITED TO US NATIONALS WITH CONTRACTS
  WITH THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT.
• 2 ND SITE PLANNED FOR THE GENERAL PUBLIC.

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National Reaching Across ReMDA Structure
A federal, interdepartmental and interagency
leadership structure
NSC
HSC
ODNI
DHS
MSPCC
CNO
CMDT
Maritime Domain Awareness Stakeholder Board
Global Maritime
Global Maritime
Intelligence Integration
Situational Awareness
Sense Making
Situational Awareness
NMATS
Situational Awareness Sense Making Maritime
Domain Awareness
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The National strategy for Maritime Security has
mandated an even higher level of interagency
cooperation in pursuit of effective MDA. A
Cooperative Strategy for 21st Century Seapower
National Maritime Awareness Technical
Sub-committee (NMATS) July 2008
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NMATS Kick-OFF

• Bottomline
• Need for an on-line database apparent
• High Level of detail (ONR Request)
• Multiple levels
• General Public
• FOUO
• SECRET
• SCI
• Use DoDTechipedia and OGMSA website
• as pointers

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Vision

• The NMATS will provide an available and
  responsive infrastructure to support senior
  leadership from across the maritime community of
  interest (MCOI), To ASSIST in
• understanding,
• shaping, and
• executing
• maritime science technology issues.

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Products

• Primary
• Technology-related insights and recommendations
  regarding existing systems, and ongoing or
  proposed ST / RD activities regarding maritime
  security and awareness.
• Database
• Secondary
• List of Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) by system
  and/or attribute

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Purpose

• Illuminate national and international maritime
  security and awareness technology issues
• From basic scientific investigation through
  programs of record (POR)
• Across all domains and platforms
• With an objective of shaping the Nations
  continuing investment in maritime security and
  awareness
• In conjunction with similar international
  efforts.

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Collaborative Leadership
National Strategy for Maritime Security
National Plan to Achieve MDA
8 Supporting Plans
Uncoordinated MDA Initiatives
MDASynergy
State
Local
Private
Tribal
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Provide opportunities for meeting anticipated
long-term needs

• In response to senior federal leadership,
• in coordination with the OGMSA and the GMAII, and
  guided by the national maritime security
  objectives,
• NMATS will be instrumental in the facilitating
  the development of best practices for both
• Accelerated fielding of appropriate technology in
  the near term and
• Identification of long-term future naval, joint
  and international capability development
  opportunities that meet defined and emergent MDA
  requirements.

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Goals (continued)

• In coordination with OGMSA, GMAII and key MCOI
  organizations create a forum for the discovery
  and exploration of innovative acquisition
  processes and products that
• Result in reduced expenditures and/or
• Faster speed to capability in the transition of
  technology to the interagency member
  organizations (ensuring input from relevant
  operational commanders.)

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The Power of Wikis Intellipedia,Diplopedia, and
DTICs New DoDTechipedia

• Questions?

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Points of Contact
Mr. Chris K. Rasmussen Social Software Knowledge
Manager Trainer National Geospatial
Intelligence Agency chris.k.rasmussen_at_ugov.gov
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Points of Contact
Ms. Tiffany L. Smith Project Lead,
Diplopedia Presidential Management Fellow Office
of eDiplomacy U.S. Department of
State 202-663-0241 smithtl7_at_state.gov
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Points of Contact

• Mr. Noel Dickover
• DoD CIO, IT Investment and Commercial Policy
  (ITICP) Directorate
• Emerging Technologies Social Software
• 703-601-4729 x152
• Noel.dickover.ctr_at_osd.mil

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Points of Contact

• Mr. George Guy Thomas
• Science Technology Advisor
• Global Maritime Awareness
• National Office of Global Maritime Situational
  Awareness
• 202-372-2591
• george.g.thomas_at_uscg.dhs.go

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Points of Contact
Ms. Helen Q. Sherman Director, User
Services DTIC 703-767-8246 hsherman_at_dtic.mil http
//www.dtic.mil
the presentation
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