GWG Overview

GWG Inaugurated January 2005 Working as a Community: Participatory governance – the community forum for all standardization activities & functions related to GEOINT Bring subject matter experts together within the DoD and IC to fully address GEOINT standards matters Enhance our ability to manage and share GEOINT data among disparate groups

26 Core Members SOCOM CIA NGA (NASB) Joint Staff, J6 (formerly JFCOM) NRO NSA Army Navy Air Force Marine Corps ODNI OSD (NII/AT&L) STRATCOM CENTCOM PACOM SOCOM Joint Staff, J6 (formerly JFCOM) Joint Staff, J2 EUCOM NORTHCOM DHS DISA DIA DLA DARPA FGDC FBI DOE U.S. Govt. Agencies

Associate Members Australia, United Kingdom, Canada Defence Geospatial Information Working Group (DGIWG) International Committee for Information Technology Standards, Geographic Standards Subcommittee (INCITS/L1) [ANSI Accredited] International Organization for Standardization (ISO) / Chair, TC 211 Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) US Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF) NATO Joint Capability Group on Intelligence Surveillance & Reconnaissance (JCGISR) American Society for Photogrammetry & Remote Sensing (ASPRS) Non-US Govt. Partners

Geospatial Web Services Community Governance Joint Enterprise Standards Committee DISR Process ER2 Process NGA Leadership SME’s Support Work Items (Requirements) Members SME’s Guest Participants LiDAR Human Geography Geospatial Web Services Ground Warfighter… Core (Voting) …More Associate

Three Levels of Activities GWG Plenary Sessions Being reworked as an Annual GEOINT Standards Seminar to address users/PMs/implementers interests – expected ~Fall 2013 Networking, information sharing, educational forum GWG Voting Meetings Three times each year – Next meeting is end of August for Baseline 13-3 Consensus for adopting GEOINT standards for citation in the DoD and IC Standards Registries (DISR/ER2) GEOINT standards adopted as emerging or mandated (acquisition binding for use in new systems and significant upgrades) Voting by Only open to Core (U.S. federal agencies) Representatives GWG Focus Groups SMEs meet as needed throughout the year Many Focus Groups opt to meet in conjunction with the Plenary meetings New & improved coming soon

NSG Standards Requirements GWG Focus Groups Published Standards Selected Standards New and Improving Programs ProgramX Vote to Adopt JCIDS Process VOTE Program1 IC ESB DoD ITSC Standards Development Organizations Program2 VOTE NSG Reqs Industry Reqs Programn IC TIC DoD CIO J6 AT&L Programs pull ER2/DISR citations Approved ER2 Standards Development Process Market Need DISR

NGA as a Standards Development Organization GWG Focus Groups NGA Published Standards Selected Standards New and Improving Programs ProgramX Vote to Adopt JCIDS Process VOTE to Publish Program1 IC ESC DoD ITSC NGA Architecture and Standards Board (NASB) Program2 VOTE KC Input Programn DoD Architecture & Standards Review Group (ASRG) Community Review IC TIC NASB Standards POCs Programs pull ICSR/DISR citations KC Input Approved ER2 Standards Development Process DISR Finished Draft Standard

Standards Lifecycle Requirement Develop Publish Adopt Implement Test Emerging Published Expected to be mandated within three years Test, implementations, technical maturity May be implemented but not in lieu of mandated standard Use of (StdV-1) requires a waiver and a Technology Insertion Risk Assessment Generally placed in StdV-2 / Standards Forecast Mandated Essential for interoperability across the enterprise Minimum Set of essential standards for the acquisition of all DoD systems that produce, use, or exchange info, and, when implemented, facilitates the flow of info in support of warfighter Required for the management, development, and acquisition of new or improved systems throughout the DoD Retired New standards / technology now available and implemented Should not be used in a new or upgraded system Require waiver and Migration Plan Inactive, remain in the DISR Registry Information Guidance Are for cross-organization use and offer a means to further clarify standards and identify relevant policies and procedures Directives, Instructions, handbooks, manuals, procedures, best practices Have a status of either active (selectable for a standards profile) or inactive (not selectable). Do not meet the criteria to be approved as standard citations in the DISR, developed by processes outside the standards-development process Sunset Tag Identifies a mandated standard for retirement as a tag not a status Tagged for retirement at a pre-defined event and date A replacement standard is frequently identified IC-Prohibited An Intelligence Community Standards Registry (ICSR) prohibited standard shall not be used in IC systems. Such standards, which may be deemed appropriate for use in warfighter systems and environments, pose a high risk to IC systems if employed. Requirement Develop Publish Adopt Implement Test Feedback

GEOINT Standards Baseline 13-1 March ‘13 Kinds/Types of GEOINT Standards are Governed in this Process? Why do we have so many standards? Over 1,200 IT Standards in the DoD standards governance process (DISR cited), 173 are GEOINT which are generally categorized for geospatial, motion imagery, & still imagery. These are available to down select from to those necessary to meet a system’s capability requirements. The chart shows the thematic areas for the types of GEOINT standards. Thematic areas from previous slide to include: Geospatial Web Services (On-Line Services, Web Services MC&G: Foundation Data Motion Imagery: Full Motion Imagery & Large Volume Streaming Data Still Imagery & Gridded Data Imagery, Sensors & Geospatial Metadata The Number and % shown for each category (GEOINT standards type) These are the essential set of standards for the acquisition of all DoD systems that produce, use or exchange GEOINT, & when implemented, facilitate the flow of information in support of the warfighter/national security. The logos at the bottom left represent Standards Development Organizations (international, national, consortia) that develop GEOINT standards through their open, voluntary consensus-based processes. These SDOs publish most of the standards managed in this governance processes – so it’s not all about MIL-Stds of which there are a few. This is important because the US Government is required by public law and Office of Management & Budget (CircularA-119) which establishes policies on Federal use and development of voluntary consensus standards. Many voluntary consensus standards are appropriate or adaptable for the Government's purposes. The use of such standards, as practicable & appropriate, is intended to - Eliminate the cost to the Government of developing its own standards & decrease the cost of goods procured & the burden of complying with agency regulation. - Provide incentives/opportunities to establish standards that serve national needs. -Encourage long-term growth for U.S. enterprises & promote efficiency & economic competition through harmonization of standards. - Further the policy of reliance upon the private sector to supply Government needs for goods and services. Now that I’ve described how GEOINT standards are developed, adopted, and promoted for the NSG, Mike Reidy for our NSG Interoperability Action Team will describe how NGA is planning to ensure critical DoD/IC programs are compliant with these NSG standards. 173 GEOINT Standards Voluntary, Open, Consensus-Based

National Imagery Transmission Format Standard (NITFS) Technical Board (NTB) Still imagery & gridded data, formats, & compression Graphical, textual, & other means to annotate imagery products Imagery-related support data & metadata Imagery-derived data & metadata, to include foundation data LiDAR Image Quality

Motion Imagery Standards Board (MISB) Motion imagery, full motion imagery, & large volume streaming data Tasking, collection, posting, processing, storage, exploitation, discovery, retrieval, & exchange of motion imagery Associated metadata, audio & other related media types

Community Sensor Model Working Group (CSMWG) Sensor models for GEOINT services Production & application standards for interoperable sensor models Interoperable sensor models to enable the efficient collection, production & distribution of GEOINT source materials

Portrayal Focus Group (PFG) Portrayal standards for the visual depiction of physical features & geographically referenced activities Visual symbolization of GEOINT & symbol design, for both digital display & hardcopy media Rules & behaviors of GEOINT symbols necessary to ensure consistent rendering Interoperability in the exchange of portrayal information

Application Schemas for Feature Encoding Focus Group (ASFE) Data structures, exchange & storage of GEOINT Data format, feature & attribute coding schemes Exchange media, administrative procedures, representations of geographic feature geometry, feature attribution information, & other geographic information Development of the GEOINT Structure Implementation Profile Human Geography

Metadata Focus Group (MFG) Imagery, sensor & geospatial metadata Coordination of activities between various recognized standards development organizations & standardized metadata across respective communities

Geospatial Web Services Focus Group (GWS) Transferring GEOINT between environments - the movement of information from one system to another, that provide for posting, discovery, access, & analysis of GEOINT data stores & information stores in a distributed, real-time environment GEOINT services & GEOINT service architecture standards -technologies that enable service chaining interoperable service components Standards of interest to developers of services and service architecture components within a distributed, collaborative, geospatial environment, & by advanced designers of service algorithms, service chains, & service-to-service interfaces.

Overhead Persistent InfraRed (OPIR) Focus Group (OFG) OPIR remote sensing, data & metadata standards to foster net-centric data services OPIR data in a net-centric Service Oriented Architecture to improve support to operations & intelligence

World Geodetic System (WGS) and Geomatics Focus Group (WGSG) Global Positioning System (GPS) Precise Ephemeris information GPS Navigation message replacement standards Geodetic Survey Standards Geotechnical Standards Accuracy and positioning standards Geopositioning content and data

Standards Governance – DISR/IC Enterprise Standards Baseline DoD IT Standards Registry (DISR) - NIPRNet A single, unifying DoD registry for approved standards citations and a registry for approved DoD IT standards profiles DISR Mandated Standards – the minimum set of essential standards for the acquisition of all DoD systems that produce, use or exchange information and, when implemented, facilitate the flow of information in support of the warfighter New/modified systems throughout the DoD are required to include all applicable DISR mandated standards in baseline (StdV-1 / Standards Profile) ER2: IC Enterprise Standards Baseline & ICS-500-20: IC Enterprise Standards Compliance - JWICS Signed 12/16/10 500-20- Defines the IC framework for: Adoption of IC enterprise standards best-suited for achieving the DNI’s goals of interoperability and information sharing Management of the IC Enterprise Standards Baseline in the IC Enterprise Registry and Repository (ER2) consisting of a minimal, focused, coordinated set of such standards Compliance and compliance certification of those portions of IC systems and EA-related information technology items funded through the NIP

NSG Standards Registry The National System for Geospatial Intelligence (NSG) Standards Registry supports the discovery, traceability, and lifecycle management of GEOINT Standards that may be used in the development and operation of data- and net-centric GEOINT applications. The NSG Standards Registry is maintained by NGA for the GWG as a service to the NSG community.

Discovering GEOINT Standards in the NSG Standards Registry GEOINT Standards by Capability A feature to help users find and identify GEOINT standards grouped functionally The registers are organized into four types of registries: data schemas data dictionaries NSG-applicable standards Geopolitical Entities Names and Codes (Country Codes) Other registries will be added in the future, to include a registry of portrayals (symbols, rules, and rule sets).