ncoic gcc ows-10 presentation 10 7 2013

NCOIC Rapid Response Capability Demonstration Geospatial Community Cloud Concept

September 12, 2013

© 2013 Network Centric Operations Industry Consortium (NCOIC®). All Rights Reserved.

NCOIC®, NCAT®, NIF® and SCOPE™ of NCOIC.

2013: NCOIC At a Glance

• Global organization focused on industry neutral concepts for NCO adoption and interoperability

• 9-year legacy of addressing global cross-domain interoperability issues and concepts

• Lexicon, tools, processes and resources for building

interoperable systems across multiple marketplaces

• 55+ members and affiliates representing 12 countries

Members are Global Leaders:

Academic institutions

Air Traffic Management providers

Service providers Consulting Engineering Logistics

Defense suppliers All military services Multinational

Government agencies Includes FFRDC & SETA

Non-Govt. Agencies International Organizations

Human service agencies

System Integrators Commercial systems Defense systems

IT firms Communications Data management Human-Machine interface Information assurance

Standards Bodies

NCOIC’s Advisory Council and many

External Relationships Ensures Focus on Customer Needs

(Joint, Interagency, Civilian, Governmental,

and Defense)

NCOIC Plenary Meeting Brussels, Belgium

June 21 – 25, 2010

NCOIC Lab Interoperability Project



• Integration of labs (started with battle labs) • No common Industry approach

• 6 months to integrate a 4-company event *

~3 months for event objectives

~3 months to implement the infrastructure to support interoperability

• Total cost of the event is approximately $1.2 million US or $300K for each company in this example

• Lack common approach increases Risk

* Based on Boeing experience over last 4 years with industry averages

Background



Using the lab interoperability technical framework reduces expense, time, and risk

Saves companies approximately $200k per event

Reduces time-to-event execution by 2/3rds

Reduces risk of event failure

Summary

Pro

cesses

2

4

3

1 Communication Interoperability and Information Assurance

Description Level

Core Middleware Support for LVC environment

Applications Hosted in Environment

Convergence of Visualization and Presentation Capability Technolo

gy

Focus on Levels 1-

3



Geospatial Community

Cloud

Create Federated

Environment

Set Up Virtual

Organization

Access Control

Central Registry

Platform Resources

Localized Infrastructure

Expert

User

Cloud

Operator

Infrastructure

Provider

Data /

Content

Provide

r

Platform

Provider

Deployed

User

Pro

cesses

2

4

3

1 Communication Interoperability and Information Assurance

Description Level

Core Middleware Support for LVC environment

Applications Hosted in Environment

Convergence of Visualization and Presentation Capability Technolo

gy

Focus on Levels

1-3

NGA Focus

The NCOIC is a interoperability process

organization

NCOIC members are trying to get more value out of

each product

Interoperability is a key value added capability

Government can do the same

NGA task; create a geospatial environment where

information is shared



DEMONSTRATION CONSIDERATIONS

The consortium was asked to consider ‘how to’ :

– leverage industry best practices

– protect digital geospatial data

– manage a bandwidth challenged environment

– ensure geospatial data consistency, interoperability

and mobility

– enable international collaboration

– facilitate backward compatibility



Cycle 1 Cloud Infrastructure


Cloud

Create Federated Environment

Set Up Virtual Organization

Access Control

Central Registry

Platform Resources


Cycle 1 -- Build the “Infrastructure as a Service” (IaaS)

Four cloud services acquired

Amazon

NJVC

Google

Savvis

Acquired storage space

Acquired Registry

Everything leased

Averaging $3-5k per mo



3

Cycle 2 Application Providers


Cloud

Create Federated

Environment

Set Up Virtual

Organization

Access Control

Central Registry

Platform Resources


Expert

User

Cloud

Operator

Infrastructure

Provider

Data /

Content

Provider

Platform

Provider

Deployed

User

Cycle 2 Plug into Cloud

App providers:

Applications for services

Fire & Rescue

Emergency Medical

Impact Assessment

SA ; location; structure, C2

Data providers

Data made available to users

Data developed by users

Virtual Organization (VO)

Sets data usage parameters

Multiple VO capabilities

Role based access



Demonstration

• Haiti

• Unified Response

• Infrastructure Build

• Capabilities Integrated



Operational Value

• Haiti provides an excellent model as the Hemisphere’s largest disaster for this project as it covered the entire spectrum of operations with joint agency, coalition military, NGOs and private organizations

• Unified Response did use social media tools and Google Earth and All Partners Access Network developed by PACOM but – – Old fashion grease pencils on maps were widely used still

– Military/US Government overwhelmed by Nations, NGOs and Private entities with desire to response and support

• Military and interagency operations were a huge improvement in collaboration but engagement with other international communities needs improvement

• IT infrastructures were not agile and access/permissions hindered effective collaboration



GEOCLOUD

Incident Control Center

Boeing-2

Dynamic Replan

Civil Engineering

Winthrop-7

BYOD Env Management

Urban Srch & Rescue

Boeing-3

Op Impact Assess Dashboard

International Coordination

NCOIC-1

Disaster Medical Assistance Team

Raytheon-5

Android Tactical System Response

Fire Response Team

Raytheon-4

R3 Decision Support Tool

Bridge

USGS-18

Twitter-15

Ship Traffic-

16

EM Resp Air

Traffic-17

Road

Secondary Warehouse

14

8

9 13

12

11

VO bucket

Scripted

Communication

Technical

Communication

Interface

(Proposed)

Technical

Communication

Interface

(Completed)

Cloud Management

NJVC-19

Cloud Services Brokerage

Major earthquake occurs in Haiti. NATO initiate HADR mission. NATO GEOCLOUD contingency plan initiated. Regional cloud broker platform and

Haiti HADR virtual organization established. NATO member countries provide key capabilities to HADR mission. Incident Control Center establish in Haiti. Red Cross engages as first major NGO to respond. GEOCLOUD initial roles established. Israel joins response as first non-NATO donor country. Roles modified to include Israel.

Emergency Mgmt Team

Telos-6

SE7EN Mission Planner /

AMHS/T-6 10

Primary Warehouse

Relief ships reported in route to port facility. Twitter post indicate possible

structural damage to key bridges, roads and distribution facilities

Israeli law enforcement team assigned to visually inspect key bridge,

roads and two distribution warehouses.

Pri W’house Collapsed

Primary warehouse reported as collapsed with fire, multiple medical

emergencies and people trapped in the rubble.

Emer Mgmt team dispatches Fire Res Team, Disaster Med Assist Team and Urban Srch & Res to

pri warehouse site. Fire Res Team assigned to monitor seismic activity and site air traffic control

Cyber intrusion concerns prompts Turkey to limit Israeli access to geodata they

provide. COIs adjusted.

Following NATO collaborative cyber defense protocols, other countries follow suit.

COIs adjusted. All countries request geodata audit.

Pri W’house Collapsed

Situation stabilized. Supplies at secondary warehouse.

TS: 1 TS: 2 TS: 3 TS: 4 TS: 5 TS: 6 TS: 7 TS: 8 TS: 9 TS: 10 TS: 11 TS: 12 TS: 13 TS: 14 TS: 15 TS: 16 TS: 17

Cloudcuity

Core Infrastructure Build

Savvis

Google

Google Geosvr

Boeing Geosvr

AWS

OpenStack

Aero VO

GeoPaaS

Geoserver Pooling

Build Infrastructure (Live)

Cloudcuity

NCOIC Rapid Response Capability

Savvis

Google

Google Geosvr

Boeing Geosvr

R3

AWS

BYOD

T6 RATS

GeoPaaS

Civil Eng

Cmd & Ctl Fire

Medical

OpenStack

Aero VO

NRRC

Introduction

• Challenge: Securely manage resource sharing across a dynamic, distributed IT environment

• Approach: Virtual Organizations (VOs) – A VO is a security and collaboration context that is not exclusively associated

with any one physical organization or site

• An organization in cyber-space with agreed upon structure, rules and processes

– A VO has members that are assigned roles – a role identity

• A membership role grants specific capabilities within a given VO

– Sites participating in a VO contribute resources, i.e., data and services

• Sites retain complete control over their own resources!

• Access by VO members can be modified or revoked at any time

– Logging into a VO provides Single Sign-On for all resources within that VO

• Resources from all participating sites are made available to VO members -- according to their role

– VOs enable federated, community clouds



Adding VOs to OpenStack

• We integrated a VO Management System (VOMS) with OpenStack – OpenStack is an open-source cloud software project

– We modified the Keystone Security and Swift Object Store Services to use the VOMS

– We extended the OpenStack project concept to include VO projects

Cloud A

Keystone

Cloud C Cloud B

Keystone

The VOMS manages info for multiple VOs

• Members

• Roles

• Participating Sites

VOMS w/ VOMS Admin

Haiti VO

Haiti VO Admin

Swift Swift Swift

List Upload

Download

Keystone

Using VO Roles to Manage Data Access

VO Roles

Structural

Engineer

First Responder

Participating Site Access Control

Lists

Medical

Data

Building

Plans, Maps

End User

Data

Read:

Write:

Read:

Write:

Read:

Write:

Local

Admin

“Owned

”

Data

Data

Containers

Medical

Staff



© 2013 Network Centric Operations Industry Consortium (NCOIC®). All Rights Reserved. NCOIC®,

NCAT®, NIF® and SCOPE™ of NCOIC.

Intellectual Heritage: VOs Developed for Global Grids

Worldwide LHC Computing Grid routinely runs over 200 VOs

(Dashboard website: http://dashb-earth.cern.ch)

• GeoServer Pooling enables Interoperability by collecting and presenting disparate GeoServices as a common resource library

• The sum becomes greater than the parts.

• GeoServers compliment and fill gaps for each other, fostering adaptation to standards and creating cross platform compatibility.

GeoServer Pooling



GeoServer Pooling (Cycle 1)

• Many GeoServers e.g. – OpenGeo (Amazon Linux AWS)

– GDS (Amazon/NJVC Windows AWS)

– Google Earth

– Google Earth Mobile

• Many GeoTranslators

• Many Data Sets



Operational Impact Assessment App

1st Responder

Android App

Field and ICC Users



• OIA modes-

– Incident

– Tasks

– Map

– RSS Feeds

• Form/Freeform Interaction

– CASREP

– SITREP

– Chat/Messaging/SMS/MMS

– Geo-Logged Activity

Operational Impact Assessment



• Ozone Widget Framework- Widget to Widget

• Auth VO Widget (Aerospace Corp)

• OpenGeo GDAL Translate Service (OpenGeo/OGC)

• Operational Impact Assessment App (Boeing)

• GDS (Boeing)

• T6 & Se7en (Telos)

• R3 & RATS (Raytheon)

• BYOD (Winthrop)

Interoperability Demo



RAYTHEON PROPRIETARY

• Mobile Geographic data labeling

application

• Supports standalone, sharing, and

export/import

• Low bandwidth requirements

• Store and forward

• Extensible and flexible

What is 1stSight?



• 1st responders teams arrive on

location noted in twitter posts

• Application launched and

warehouse labeled on geospatial

map

• Information entered

• Notes, pictures, audio memos

• Finding/updates are auto-pushed or

manually sync’ed to the central

database

Geocloud

Workflow

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Raytheon R3 Decision Support Tool

• Mission Requirement – Focus analysts attention on those hazards likely to require humanitarian

assistance

• Knowledge Base Application

– Enables the production, storage and access of geospatial knowledge of natural hazards

– Computes a relative ranking of natural hazards using a Scorecard

– Provides a means to monitor impact indicators, for example, changes in • Twitter activity

• Ship Traffic

© 2013 Network Centric Operations Industry Consortium (NCOIC®). All Rights Reserved. NCOIC®, NCAT®,

NIF® and SCOPE™ of NCOIC.

RAYTHEON PROPRIETARY Nominate Haiti Earthquake

Natural Hazards

& Other Reporting

Scorecard Model IWG-R3 Analyst

Geospatial Features Population, Critical Infrastructure,

Public Places, Economic Data, … Communities

Of Interest

RATS 2.0: Key Features

• Works on COTS hand held devices (phones, tablets, cameras, etc) – Operates on Android 4.0 and above

• Enhanced Security with Encrypted Data at Rest and Data in Transit – Open SSL Security (FIPS140-2 Level 1 Compliant)

• Intuitive Interfaces and Geospatial Displays on handheld devices and server – Enhanced situational awareness

• Secure Chat, Reporting, and Alerting – SALUTE and Freetext messages with the ability to attach multimedia files

• Remote Maintenance and Configuration – View device information (battery life, screen state, network info, processor info, running apps)

– View and modify device date (images, video, text message history, call history, contacts)

– Control the device (enable streaming video and audio, enable a hotspot)

RATS 2.0: Providing Enhanced Situational Awareness to the Warfighter RATS 2.0: Architected for Real-world Environments

Providing Enhanced Situational Awareness

RATS Handheld Interface

Newsfeed Alerts Chat Resources

Geospatial View Reports

Log In Screen



RATMAN…

• Operates on COTS Laptop

• COP that tracks assets and provides

updates on status

• An available adaptor interface allowing

linkages to be configured to multiple

data sources and ISR assets

• Can use networked or cached

geospatial resources

• Intuitive user interface

• Holistic mobile system for rapid

information exchange to the EDGE

RATMAN Interface



Highlights

• This program provides the model for continued/ongoing collaboration which was cited as key lesson learned:

– Ability to have sustained dialogue and interaction between military actors and international organizations should be on-going to some degree

– Ability to conduct exercises to refine processes and systems with a cloud based system

– Provide a virtual response framework to be built quickly when disaster strikes



Highlights - continued

• Project demonstrated how to codify unclassified information sharing tools, common operating picture, make them adaptable to any partner- nation system

• Brokered approach can facilitate the locating of displaced persons as it continues to be a challenge

• Greatly enhances effective distributions of logistics and security forces

• Allows for greater ability to leverage local and poorer nations who have expertise but lack the tools and infrastructure



Program Development - 3 Goals

• Cost – Cloud Infrastructure is extremely cost effective

– Cost factors 10% to 80 % lower

– Cloud services growing throughout the globe

– Applications now the largest cost but should be developed and in use

– When done shut down no residual cost

• Schedule – Development time is measured in hours vs months

– Longest time would be determining and setting up service providers

– Requires some preconceived thought as to services needed

• Capability – Flexible infrastructure with tremendous growth

– Applications added to provide operational capability



NRRC • NRRC is a process/pattern

• Rapid infrastructure development

– Global capability

– Dramatically lower cost (less than ½ the cost)

• Secure unclassified environment

– Standard approach to security

– Independent control adhering to local rules regulations and laws

• Application integration

– Plug and play (not quite but close)

– Information sharing increasing application value (10x to 100x value)



Demonstration Summary

• NRRC – A new way of doing business – Cost down – Implementation speed up – Reliability high

• Operational Impact – Concept addresses a real world situation – Operational viability understood – Implementation will require a new thought process

• Global direction – Cost alone will drive global solutions into cloud solution – Ease of information sharing will create cross domain solutions – Security becomes the new focus

When a business can return 75% of IT costs to the profit line

- arguments against become moot © 2013 Network Centric Operations Industry Consortium (NCOIC®). All Rights Reserved.


NCOIC Rapid Response Capability Demonstration Geospatial Community Cloud Concept

September 12, 2013



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