UNCLASSIFIED A Chief Information Officer’s Perspective on Service-Oriented Architecture Presented to Service-Oriented Architectures for E-Government Conference 31 October 2006 The Mitre Corporation, McLean, VA by Deborah L. Phillips Chief, Enterprise Architecture National Reconnaissance Office

2 Unclassified YYYYMMDD OCIO/Group/Your Name Mission Context The National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) designs, builds, and operates the nation’s reconnaissance satellites NRO goals: –Be the foundation for global situational awareness –Provide intelligence supporting real-time engagement NRO products can: –Warn of potential trouble spots around the world –Help plan military operations –Monitor the environment Information and information technology (IT) are critical to the NRO’s ability to perform it’s mission.

3 Unclassified YYYYMMDD OCIO/Group/Your Name Business Context NRO plays a primary role in achieving information superiority for the United States Government and Armed Forces Part of the 16-member Intelligence Community (IC) Air Force IntelligenceDepartment of the Treasury Army IntelligenceDrug Enforcement Administration Central Intelligence AgencyFederal Bureau of Investigation Coast Guard IntelligenceMarine Corps Intelligence Defense Intelligence AgencyNational Geospatial-Intelligence Agency Department of EnergyNRO Department of Homeland SecurityNational Security Agency Department of StateNavy Intelligence

4 Unclassified YYYYMMDD OCIO/Group/Your Name Context for Information Sharing IC is putting policy into practice to achieve the maximum degree of information exchange among its member agencies –Provide sufficient context and background on relevant intelligence information –Protect information on operations Move systems and processes toward information sharing Quantity of Information Data Access Requirements Collaboration -- Info Sharing Response Time

5 Unclassified YYYYMMDD OCIO/Group/Your Name Purview As Chief Information Officer: –I serve as the principal IT advisor and overseer for NRO –I coordinate the liaison between IC and the Department of Defense for all IT matters I believe a function of the CIO’s office is to encourage discussion about topics of interest. Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is one of these topics.

6 Unclassified YYYYMMDD OCIO/Group/Your Name Interest in SOA Mission imperative to share information and better utilize available resources SOA-based strategy provides a way forward (but we need to carefully assess cost/value)

7 Unclassified YYYYMMDD OCIO/Group/Your Name Expanded Understanding Hosted three SOA Summits over six month period –Among my staff –Across NRO –Across IC Focus: –State of the art –State of the practice –Lessons learned from implementations

8 Unclassified YYYYMMDD OCIO/Group/Your Name Potential Benefits Investing in SOA by itself produces no direct mission value – –… However, creating SOA-based services – within the context of other integration or development activities that do produce mission value – provides future agility. Enhance ability for data sharing and collaboration In our business, as in most (perhaps for different reasons), security engineering is critical for Enterprise- wide SOAs –SOAs offer opportunity to provide common security services, primarily for core business functions

9 Unclassified YYYYMMDD OCIO/Group/Your Name Some Challenges Standards are still evolving Access management Governance Understanding the cost of implementing SOA-based services Building new services from scratch may be more cost- effective than trying to adapt some legacy systems Not clear path to sufficient interoperability between vendor solutions; dealing with vendor proprietary issues Security is hard!

10 Unclassified YYYYMMDD OCIO/Group/Your Name And, There Are Risks Potential impact on mission critical services –Some services need to be 100% available Performance of SOA approaches in high performance environments; mix/match with other technologies

11 Unclassified YYYYMMDD OCIO/Group/Your Name Summary Still more questions than answers …working to determine answers …need to manage expectations Teamwork is key.