NCOIC Geospatial Interoperability Task Team

Kevin L. Jackson

Chairman, NCOIC Cloud Computing Working Group

April 12, 2011

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NCOIC, A Global Industry Consortium

Industry working together with our customers to provide a network centric environment to facilitate the global realization of Network Centric Operations

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United Kingdom

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AustraliaAustralia

CanadaCanada

DenmarkDenmark

FinlandFinland

FranceFrance

GermanyGermany

ItalyItalyIrelandIreland

IsraelIsrael NetherlandsNetherlands

PolandPoland

RomaniaRomania

SpainSpain

South KoreaSouth Korea

SwedenSweden

SwitzerlandSwitzerland

TurkeyTurkey

United KingdomUnited Kingdom

United StatesUnited States

•Focused solely on network centric•A global perspective to facilitate NCO adoption•An industry neutral perspective to facilitate NCO adoption•An industry, government and academic cadre of expertise

US DoD Official

Defining and Assessing Netcentric Capability

Working Groups: Mobile Networks, Ground Systems, Semantic Interoperability Framework, Information Assurance, Services, Cloud Computing & Open

StandardsAreas of Responsibility: Frameworks,

patterns/PFCs, standards and design guidance Charter: To host and encourage the development,

approval, and publication of specialized Frameworks and Patterns that contain guidelines and standards recommendations for the broad range of domains.

Specialized Frameworks

NCOIC™

Network

One-to-Many

A Global-Scale Ecosystem…Engineering guidance for development of

a Network Centric Architecture and enabling existing architectures and networked systems

• Capability and Technical NCP describe how to enable specific network centric capabilities and how to mitigate

interoperability problems.

•Operational NCPs describes how organizations can enable networked operational capabilities through descriptions of

collaborative scenarios and business processes

Network Centric Patterns (NCP):

Aviation C3

Net Enabled Emergency Response

Sense & Respond Logistics

Maritime

Analyze Missions

Cyber Security

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NCOIC Cloud Computing Working Group Charter

Collaboration & engagement with other Cloud groups to look at standards-based solutions

• Government, standard bodies, vendors, NCOIC member companies• Peer-to-peer interoperability, improved usability/ trust of the cloud, and

portability across clouds.

Document best practices, architectures and blue prints for commercially-available implementations, including examining security implications and how to implement an internal cloud.

– “In-Field”, Edge, and Enterprise Clouds– Layered Quality of Service for Cloud

Computing– “Infrastructure cloud" standards to

develop consensus across vendors to reduce lock-in to a given vendor or platform.

– Develop Net-Centric Patterns on well developed instances

– Focused on solving business/operational needs

Interactions and effects with other NCOIC teams and Deliverables

– NIF, Specialized Frameworks, SCOPE Model, NCAT, Building Blocks etc.,

– Updates to the NCOIC Lexicon to add our Cloud Computing taxonomy

Operational Flow

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Cloud Computing Value

Document and Validate

Key capabilities and standards

Evangelize and Iterate

NCOIC Lab Interoperability ProjectNCOIC Lab Interoperability Project

Group Chair: Karen Mowrey, Boeing

NCOIC Plenary Meeting

Falls Church, VA

Sept. 27 – Oct.1, 2010

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Reduce expense, time, and risk associated with integrating labs

Modeling & simulation capabilities to be tested in a joint environment

An environment that supports more dynamic and broader scope testing

Commercial customers and NGOs require test before buy

Industry Solution: An infrastructure approach will enable “Interoperability”

Purpose

Pro

cess

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1 Communication Interoperability and Information Assurance

DescriptionLevel

Core Middleware Support for LVC environment

Applications Hosted in Environment

Convergence of Visualization and Presentation Capability

Tec

hnol

ogy

Focus on Levels 1-3

Deliverables: Three global demonstrations showing interoperability at the infrastructure

level A technical framework that documents the technical configuration, protocols

and standards used

Next Steps: Work with NCOIC Technical Council on developing patterns and best

practices to be made available to all

Interoperability Matrix

6 U.S. SITES6 U.S. SITES

Lockheed Martin: Suffolk, VALockheed Martin: Suffolk, VA (Lab Presenter, DIS, VTC)(Lab Presenter, DIS, VTC)

Raytheon: Suffolk, VA Raytheon: Suffolk, VA (Lab Presenter, VTC) (Lab Presenter, VTC) 

IBM: Bethesda, MDIBM: Bethesda, MD (Lab Presenter, VTC) (Lab Presenter, VTC)

Boeing: Seattle, WABoeing: Seattle, WA (NOC – LabNet Ops) (NOC – LabNet Ops)

Boeing: Anaheim, CABoeing: Anaheim, CA (BIC – COP, DIS, (BIC – COP, DIS,

DMS Recording, Lab Presenter)DMS Recording, Lab Presenter)

Boeing: Arlington, VABoeing: Arlington, VA (Event Control, MCU)(Event Control, MCU)

4 EUROPEAN SITES4 EUROPEAN SITES

Finmeccanica: Genova, ItalyFinmeccanica: Genova, Italy(Lab Presenter, DIS, VTC)(Lab Presenter, DIS, VTC)

Thales: Colombes, FranceThales: Colombes, France(Lab Presenter, DIS, VTC) (Lab Presenter, DIS, VTC)

EADS: Elancourt, France EADS: Elancourt, France (Lab Presenter, DIS, VTC)(Lab Presenter, DIS, VTC)

Cisco Systems: EuropeCisco Systems: Europe(Networking H/W back-up)(Networking H/W back-up)

Rome, ItalyRome, Italy (NNEC – Audience Location)(NNEC – Audience Location)

Phase 1: Network and Presentation Layer Interoperability Demo: Rome, Italy -- March 2010

NCOIC Plenary Session Brussels, Belgium

NCOIC Plenary Session Brussels, Belgium

Networking hardware in Europe provided by CISCO

Phase 2: Brussels NCOIC Middleware Interoperability Demo

NCOIC Plenary Session Brussels, Belgium

NCOIC Plenary Session Brussels, Belgium

Cloud Experiments #1 Physical Servers running Data Interoperability

Middleware were migrated to Virtual Servers in the Cloud

Cloud Experiments #1 Physical Servers running Data Interoperability

Middleware were migrated to Virtual Servers in the Cloud

#2 Network Management capabilities delivered as a Cloud Service

#2 Network Management capabilities delivered as a Cloud Service

Cloud Computing Experiments

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

Saves companies approximately $200K per event

Reduces time-to-event execution by two thirds

Reduces risk of event failure

Cloud computing technology can help to further reduce lab integration time

Summary

NGA Request

•NCOIC was asked to submit a formal proposal to the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency to design, build and present a demonstration on how cloud computing technologies and/or techniques could be used to enhance interoperability between geospatial information systems

•Leverage processes and lessons learned from lab interoperability experiment

•The demonstration must address the following:

•How does the geospatial community leverage industry best practices to globally provide access to electronic geospatial data and services

•How can digital geospatial data be protected from unauthorized use while maintaining the ability of each participating data provider to manage the data that they provide?

•How can the community maintain geospatial data consistency and interoperability while maintaining application backward compatibility through as many as three versions?

•How can electronic data mobility capable of supporting operational collaboration across the geospatial community be assured?

NCOIC Member Participation

Three areas of work under consideration– Development of the concepts– Demonstration of the concepts– Evaluation of the results.

Recommendations for detailed activities is being solicited from members– One submission per NCOIC member– Recommendation Format

• Work Area(s) of interest• Recommended activities for each work area of interest• FTE Estimate for each recommended activity• Other cost (if any) for each recommended activity

– Due November 10, 2010

Consolidate recommendations into proposal draft Distribute for comments (11/17/10 target) Finalize and submit (12/1/10 target)

NCOIC Members who submitted input

Boeing Cisco Deloitte EADS Finmeccanica GBL Systems Harris IBM Lockheed Martin Luciad Microsoft MilSoft ICT Mosaic ATM OGC Raytheon The Aerospace Corporation

GITT Proposal

Cycle 1: Basic cloud infrastructure and connectivity services.

Cycle 2 & 3: Additional Cloud Functionality and Analysis.

Each cycle will include three phases:

– Development of the concepts to be employed and hypotheses to be tested

– Demonstration of the capabilities and supporting

– Reporting on the results. functionalities.

Core Node Environment

Provisioning engine

Server, Network, Storage, Middleware and Application Resources

Cloud User

Service Catalog

Cloud(Connected Member Company Nodes)

Self Service Portal

Approver

Cloud Administrator

AUTOMATION

VIRTUALIZATION

STANDARDIZATION

Four User Roles

Based on a “Team” concept. The OGC Node will support multiple teams. Teams have Users and an Administrator. The Cloud has Managers and Administrators.

Team User View projects available to

the team Check status of servers

provisioned for their team Log in and use

provisioned servers and applications

Team Administrator Create/modify team user

accounts Request new servers for

their team Check status of existing

requests and servers Change server status and

password Log in and use

provisioned servers and applications

Cloud Manager Check the status of

projects and monitor the servers of any team

Cloud Administrator Define new teams, user

accounts and roles Register and unregister

software images (templates)

Approve resource allocations and changes

Approve Team Administrator requests

Base Cloud Capabilities

Add and delete users and teams Create projects and virtual machines with resources such as OS, CPU,

memory, disk space Show available, standardized, reusable images for rapid and reliable

provisioning (via catalog) Monitor requests status (requested, approved, being provisioned) Monitor server status (use of resources) Scale server resources to meet new workload requirements (such as

CPU, memory,…, or duration time for which the server is needed) De-provision unused capacity and compute power Remote Control features (allowing power on, power off, restart, reset

password, and backup of a virtual machine)

Current Status

• Formal proposal submitted and accepted

• Funding available, contracting vehicle in work

• GITT Task Team 1 (Core Node) formed. Task proposal

under development

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Net-EnabledFuture

Stovepiped Systems, Point-to-Point Networks

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