22 October 2014 UISS Applications Service Provider Technical Manager, Jerry Giles UISS Applications Service Provider Customer Engagement Lead, Arlana Deleo UISS Applications Service Provider Customer Engagement, East Coast, Lara Coutinho UISS Applications Service Provider Geospatial Product Owner, Harley Parks DoD Shared Enterprise Unclassified Information Sharing Service UISS

– OSD Resource Management Directive (RMD) 700 Released DoD CIO memo designated the All Partners Access Network (APAN) as the baseline shared enterprise DoD service UISS funded across the FYDP (FY12-FY17) (Free to users) DoD CIO & Joint Staff Assigned Oversight of UISS  All Partners Access Network (APAN) as UISS baseline capability  DISA PEO C2C / MNIS designated as UISS Program Manager  Joint Staff J6 designated operational sponsor UISS Application Services Provider (ASP)  Managed out of Pacific Warfighting Center (PWC) Ford Island  Remotely manages applications at DECC-Montgomery, Alabama  Product Teams and Agile Scum software development / testing & COOP.  Provides help desk; KM & direct support for COCOMs & agencies to include train the trainer / Customer Engagement / Exercises & HADR – crisis support UISS Governance Background

APAN: Baseline UISS Capability A web-based, unclassified NON-DOT-MIL, internet community accessible to the DoD & its mission Partners without the constraints of traditionally closed & externally inaccessible DoD networks Developed to empower DoD customers & their MISSION PARTNERS to efficiently & effectively SHARE and collaborate UNCLASSIFIED information between government / non- government organizations & agencies during CRISIS response operations, multinational / joint exercises, events and international events.

International Conferences Operational Services Joint & Multinational Exercises & Events Scientific Research Scientific Research Security Cooperation Humanitarian Assistance / Disaster Relief Support Focused Team & Staff Collaboration Academia & Alumni Relations APAN USE CASES AFGHAN Info Sharing CENTCOM Typhoon Haiyan Philippines PACOM Japan Tsunami PACOM SOUTHCOM SOCOM NORTHCOM Australian HQ Joint Ops Center Africa Lion AFRICOM THIRDFLT US Naval War College Medical Research w/ Interagency / NGO’s AFRICOM Ebola Response Unified Assistance

UISS Baseline Software ZIMBRA Community (7.1.5) : (APAN Groups) A collaborative social networking software platform with a variety of core applications running on top of it such as blogs, forums, media galleries, wikis, event calendars, photo & video embedding & more. Applications from third parties using API’s & REST stacks can be installed or integrated with platform. ZIMBRA Community is ASP.NET, C+ & Microsoft SQL Server. Microsoft SharePoint Enterprise 2010 : (APAN Sites) Content & document management program used to provide intranet portals, document & file management, collaboration, websites, enterprise search and workflow automation. Enterprise also provides a complete development stack based on web technologies and standards-based API’s.

Chat: Open-Fire Search: Tomcat , SOLR 4.1 Mobile: ZIMBRA Mobile 3.0 Analytics: ZIMBRA Analytics Mail-Enable Enterprise 6.03 Connect: Adobe Connect Translation: SYSTRAN (15 language pairs) Language Weaver (Dari / Pashtu) Google Translate (54 Languages) Mapping: Metacarta 4.7 ARC GIS 10.2 UISS Software Applications / Appliances

UISS Systems Environments CURRENT DAA Production: DECC Montgomery, Alabama DISA Development: Pacific Warfighting Center, HI PACOM Test/Staging: Pacific Warfighting Center, HI PACOM COOP: Pacific Warfighting Center, HI PACOM FUTURE (FY15) DAA Amazon Cloud Web Services DISA

Enterprise Unclassified Information Sharing Service (UISS) Operational View (OV-1) The Unclassified Information Sharing Service (UISS) is the DoD’s designated enterprise capability to share and collaborate with non-traditional mission partners with the All Partners Access Network (APAN ) designated ( as the baseline service. UISS production servers are managed by DISA’s Defense Enterprise Computing Center (DECC) & maintained within a special purpose enclave using a commercial internet service provider (ISP). DECC staff maintains computing environment. UISS Applications Service Provider (ASP) maintains COOP, testing & development environments. The ASP staff provides software development, Help desk, applications management, CCMD’s request for assistance, information and knowledge management support. PACOM User PACOM User ASP EUCOM User EUCOM User AFRICOM User AFRICOM User PACOM User PACOM User NORTHCOM User NORTHCOM User SOUTHCOM User SOUTHCOM User CDN SERVER = Content Distribution Network. UISS uses Akamai which has over 150,000 edge servers in 92 countries COOP, Testing & Development DECC MGMT VPN DISA DECC Alabama host UISS production servers (private enclave) ASP host COOP, Staging & Dev Servers DECC 24/7 Systems Service Desk ASP 24/7 UISS Help Desk Support & UISS applications management 30 September 2014

Types of APAN Groups: Permission Based Public Open Public Closed Private Listed Private Unlisted PUBLIC OPEN - Access to all public information. Registered APAN users can join without approval PRIVATE LISTED – ONLY group members can see info. Listed publicly. Only title/description searchable Group users must be approved PUBLIC CLOSED – Access to all public information. Users of group must be approved (only members can post) PRIVATE UNLISTED – ONLY members can see or read your group. It’s NOT listed or publicly searchable. Users must be INVITED to join.

Current APAN Groups by Type as of 19 Sept 2014

APAN Capabilities / Services lite.apan.org Online Collaboration connect.apan.org (same as DCO) APAN Lite: Low Bandwidth Geospatial information map.apan.org Group / Peer Chat chat.apan.org

APAN Capabilities Services Doc / Freeform Translation translate.apan.org apan.org/metrics APAN Performance Metrics 24 / 7 Help Desk Support Hybrid Site Translation community.apan.org/support

APAN Mobile Capabilities / Services APAN Chat App APAN Mobile m.apan.org APAN Connect on Mobile Devices Responsive Design

APAN Capabilities / Services TEXT MESSAGE COMMUNICATION TO APAN GROUPS : None-smart phone users ability to use their cell phones to post content to an APAN community of interest or group. This capability is available when APAN Chat cannot be used. This could be to broadcast reports from the field for situational awareness, requests for support, status updates, etc. This capability would typically be set up locally within an Area of Responsibility (AOR) to support several personnel in the field to send information back to office.

APAN Capabilities / Services

Integrated Search Tag Cloud Search for Communities, People and information using APAN’s integrated search and tag (meta data) search Integrated Search / Meta Data

Unstructured tools:  Blogs, Forums, Wikis  Private and group chat  Commenting  Web conferencing w/audio & recording features  Mentions, likes, and hashtags Structured tools:  SharePoint 2010  File sharing  Metadata and tagging  Custom lists  GIS Mapping tools  Calendars  RSS feeds User Specific Tools:  Personal profiles  Private messaging  Private notifications  Filtered search  Mobile access  Low bandwidth options  Translation services (web page, chat, and documents) Other Services & Tools:  Group Metrics  accounts  Event registration tools  REST / API Services APAN Tool Box

DOD Unclassified Information Sharing (UISS) APAN Application Service Provider Directly supporting DOD unclassified information sharing / collaboration, operations and missions across multiple scenarios, humanitarian assistance / disaster management and joint / multinational exercises / events.

BACKUPS

ACCESSIBLE TO THE DOD & ITS MISSION PARTNERS WITHOUT EXCESSIVE LOG ON CONSTRAINTS WEB BASED NON-DOT MIL INTERNET COMMUNITY ABILITY TO INTEGRATE OTHER UNCLASSIFIED INFORMATION SHARING TOOLS AND PLATFORMS EFFECTIVELY SHARE & COLLABORATE INFORMATION WITH NON-TRADITIONAL DOD PARTNERS SUPPORTS HUMANITARIAN CRISIS SUPPORT OPERATIONS & MULTINATIONAL JOINT EXERCISES PARTICIPATION IN THE COMMUNITY BUILDS RELATIONSHIPS APAN: The Baseline UISS Capability

Current APAN Groups & SharePoint Sites as of 19 Sept 2014

Current APAN Registered Users FY14

Community- maintained Wikis Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) Discussion Forums Documents, pictures and video Mobile access via & device- independent app Mobile Accessibility Focus on situational awareness Enhance discovery through search Device agnostic (webkit browsers) APAN Mobile Use on Mobile Devices APAN Information Sharing