Integrated ICT Support Directorate Overview

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Enabling Stability Operations, Humanitarian
Assistance and Disaster Relief Operations
Training Opportunities to Consider that for
Interagency Unclassified Information Sharing
Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for
Networks and Information Integration OASD(NII)
and the DoD Chief Information Officer Mr Bill
Barlow Deputy Director, Integrated Information
Communications Technologies (ICT) Support (IIS)
DirectorateMarch 2009
UNCLASSIFIED
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Agenda

• Purpose
• OASD(NII) Integrated ICT Support (IIS)
  Directorate
• Organization and mission
• Strategic goals and priorities
• Illustrations of the problem
• Complex dynamics of Interagency operations
• Examples of unclassified information sharing
  issues
• Acknowledged challenges limit unclassified
  information sharing
• Keys to successful information sharing
• Training focus discussion
• Keys to successful Interagency operations
• Revised DoD Policy
• Training opportunities
• Training Focus Recommendations and Summary

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Purpose

• Describe the Integrated ICT Support Directorate
  mission and goals that support the interagency
  community.
• Illustrate department-wide information sharing
  challenges that limit Stability Operations, HA
  and DR environments.
• Offer proposed interagency training
  opportunities.
• Discuss policy and programmatic efforts that can
  exercised during future training events.
• Work on your behalf to address strategic and
  operational issues that affect unclassified
  information sharing

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Integrated ICT Support (IIS) Directorate Mission
" The Integrated Information and Communication
Technology (ICT) Support (IIS)Directorate
provides policy, oversight and guidance for ICT
elements for stability operations, humanitarian
assistance and disaster relief efforts (HADR),
building partnership capacity (BPC), and
contingency operations with particular emphasis
on unclassified information sharing as a key
enabler for these missions. The IIS Directorate
assists in identifying technologies that enable
information exchange and communications support
for rapid demonstration, experimentation, and
fielding. IIS leads the ASD/NII and DoD CIO
outreach for Stability operations."
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Illustrations of the problem Complex dynamics of
Interagency Operations - the common denominator
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Illustrations of the problem Information
Sharing Issues

• Regarding support for May 2006 Indonesia
  Earthquake JFCOM will do whatever it takes to
  support current operations in this area.  In the
  mid term, we need to figure out how to
  disseminate unclassified data with the same
  priority we do classified data - perhaps more
  given the complexity of the long war and our need
  to communicate with non-traditional actors.  It
  is key to how we interact with other
  nations, OGAs, IOs, and NGOs at all levels of
  conflict.  Lets work together to fix this
  shortfall with policy, technology, and processes
  that support rather than present obstacles.
• General Lance Smith
• Commander, U.S. Joint Forces Command, 29 May 2006
• Regarding 2004 Indian Ocean Earthquake and
  Tsunami lessons learned AND TSUNAMI LESSONS
  LEARNED
• Effective coordination, partnership and
  stewardship are necessary to reach all children
  affected by an emergency.
• UNICEF Humanitarian Action Report, 2008
• Regarding the 2008 Georgian Crisis Department of
  State and USAID identified info sharing
  improvement recommendations to Department of
  Defense
• Need easier access to Civilian-Military
  Coordination Doctrine, reference documents, and
  Guidelines
• Use of common terminology, standards (data,
  humanitarian i.e. Sphere) and interoperable
  software
• Synchronized inter-agency training and education
  in civil-military coordination,
  information/knowledge management, and
  cross-cultural understanding
• Knowledge map and humanitarian social network
  analysis to identify existing sources of
  information and the key USG, UN, NGO, donor and
  host government actors and their contact
  information
• Department of State Humanitarian Information Unit
• August 2008
• DoD Geographic combatant commands identify
  unclassified info sharing with coalition,
  interagency, international and non-governmental
  organizations as part of top ten priorities.
  

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Illustrations of the problem Identified
challenges that limit information sharing

• Unclassified information sharing and coordination
  with non-DoD entities are problematic
• DoD culture is classify by default rather than
• share by default.
• Not everyone wants to share or cooperate with
  USG/DoD
• Cumbersome, ad hoc networks no sharing
  environment

• Organizational cultures and stovepipes impede
  progress
• Policies and procedures are unclear on
  release/sharing
• Over classification and excessive caveats- ie.
  FOUO / SBU
• Tactics, techniques, and procedures are not
  standardized or well known
• Information sharing is not always recognized as
  good
• DoD organizations are concerned about information
  integrity
• NGOs are concerned about neutrality and
  cooptation
• Risk aversion
• Sharing must be bi-directional - DoD must offer
  what the Community of Interest requires

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Training Focus Discussion Keys to successful
Interagency Operations

• Use the training environment to improve the
  conditions that enable unclassified information
  sharing
• Trust among organizations and people is crucial
• Social networking and relationships enable the
  willingness to share
• Leadership that motivates organizational changes
  to promote sharing
• Clearly stated, common objectives
• Unambiguous policies that direct what will be
  shared, with whom, and when minimize room for
  interpretations that inhibit sharing
• Clear understanding and agreement between actors
  on information needs/desires who/what/when/where
  /why
• Information needs to be accessible, visible,
  understandable and trusted by all who have a need
  to know

Its not just the technology
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Training Focus Discussion Train and exercise
revised DoD Policy

• DoD Directive 8320.02 Data Sharing in a
  Net-Centric Department of Defense Certified
  Current as of April 23, 2007
• 4.1 Data is an essential enabler of
  network-centric warfare (NCW) and shall be made
  visible, accessible, and understandable to any
  potential user
• 4.2 Data assets shall be made visible by creating
  and associating metadata (tagging). All
  metadata shall be discoverable, searchable, and
  retrievable using DoD-wide capabilities.
• DoD Information Sharing Strategy, May 4, 2007
• Provide a common vision to synchronize
  information sharing initiatives and investments
  throughout the Department.
• DoD Information Sharing Implementation Plan,
  Focus Area 6 July 22, 2008
• The lack of a federated SSTR architecture hinders
  combatant commands and mission partners in
  efficiently and effectively sharing information
  in civil support and SSTR operations.

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Training Focus Discussion Train and exercise
revised DoD Policy

• DoD Directive 3000.05, Military Support for
  Stability, Security, Transition, and
  Reconstruction (SSTR) Operations (November 28th,
  2005) (under revision as a DoD Instruction 2009)
• 4.1 Stability Operations are a core U.S.
  military mission that the Department of Defense
  shall be prepared to conduct and support. They
  shall be given priority comparable to combat
  operations..
• 4.3 Many stability operations tasks are best
  performed by indigenous, foreign, or U.S.
  civilian professionals. Nonetheless, U.S.
  military forces shall be prepared to perform all
  tasks necessary to establish or maintain order
  when civilians cannot do so.
• 4.12 Information shall be shared with U.S.
  Departments and Agencies, foreign governments
  and forces, International Organizations, NGOs,
  and members of the Private Sector supporting
  stability operations, consistent with legal
  requirements.
• DoD Directive 3000.07, Irregular Warfare
  (December 1st, 2008)
• 4.a. Recognize that IW is as strategically
  important as traditional warfare.
• 4.b. Improve DoD proficiency for IW, which also
  enhances its conduct of stability operations.
  Stability operations are a core U.S. military
  mission that the Department of Defense shall be
  prepared to conduct in accordance with DoD
  Directive 3000.05 .
• 4.h. Synchronize appropriate DoD IW-related
  activities with the efforts of other U.S.
  Government agencies, foreign security partners,
  and selected international organizations by
  supporting
• 4.h(2) Integrated civilian-military teams for
  steady-state and surge activities,..
• 4.h (5) Efforts to enhance information sharing,
  as appropriate, to increase situational awareness
  of irregular challenges.

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Training Focus Discussion Training opportunities

• Current initiatives to consider
• Navy is active in unclas sharing and internet
  access for Stability Operations (NCE and
  InRelief)
• Army and Special Operations is working on joint
  civ-mil information sharing (JCIMS)
• USMC innovation to coordinate Stability
  Operations by using unclassified and
  non-classified networks to reach civ-mil
  participants (MARFORPAC)
• COCOMs are addressing civ-mil unclas info sharing
  as part of their exercises (AC 2009)
• COCOM info sharing portals are available but vary
  in effectiveness/usage
• COCOM and USAID liaison officer relationships
• Training opportunities to consider
• Train and exercise leadership, staffs and
  responders to improve unclas command and
  control and connect and collaborate functions
• Better incorporate knowledge management and
  unclas info sharing efforts amongst the
  Interagency as part of exercise planning
• Use of live NGO involvement and engagement in
  exercises (not role players)
• Create events that require increased awareness to
  determine what information DoD will share, with
  whom, and during which components of a response
  operation
• Strive to bridge and/or minimize cultural
  barriers that prevent information sharing

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Recommendations and Conclusion

• DoD and its Service Schools (and other
  Interagency training) need to include curriculum
  that trains our ICT professionals to include
  external information sharing in their planning
  and equipping
• Seek opportunities to support the objective of
  better engagement with external participants
  during SSTR, HADR, IW efforts within your
  training regimen
• Include opportunities that foster better
  awareness of DoD and Interagency policy and
  guidance
• Strive for increased NGO participation in
  exercise planning and conduct
• Use exercises as the opportunity to improve
  unclassified information sharing policy and
  operations
• Collect and elevate ICT lessons learned that need
  improved DoD policy
• Consider increased usage of the DoD Foreign
  Disclosure Process to get unclassified
  information in the hands of Interagency and
  non-governmental organizations

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Contact Information

• Mr. Al Johnson
• Director, Integrated Information Communications
  Technologies (ICT) Support Directorate
• Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense,
  Networks and Information Integration
• 1235 S. Clark St., Crystal Gateway One, Suite
  601, Arlington, VA 22202-4363
• Voice Primary 1(703) 697-8190
• Voice Alternate 1 [phone]
• Fax [phone]
• Al.Johnson_at_osd.mil
• Mr. William (Bill) Barlow
• Deputy Director, ICT Support Directorate
• Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense,
  Networks and Information Integration
• 1235 S. Clark St., Crystal Gateway One, Suite
  601, Arlington, VA 22202-4363
• Voice Primary 1(703) 601-2437
• Voice Alternate 1 [phone]
• Fax [phone]
• William.Barlow_at_osd.mil