1. International Defence Enterprise Architecture Specification (IDEAS)
Architecture Data Exchange Experiments
Military Utility Demonstration
-Coalition Operations Planning Collaboration-
-Doctrine and Procedures Interoperability-
Medical Example

2. Why Are We Here?
To update JFCOM on current initiatives of the multi-national “IDEAS” Group
To solicit suggestions and inputs
To solicit inputs on areas of concern to JFCOM for future initiative planning

3. Current Interoperability Initiative
What are we trying to do?
Demonstrate the military utility of flexible and interoperable exchange of architecture data.
What aspects of interoperability is this experiment series focused on?
Doctrinal and procedural interoperability.
Interoperability between a diverse and ever evolving set of automated architecture design tools.
What challenges are we addressing ?
Providing precise and unambiguous representation and exchange of coalition doctrine and procedures utilizing the precision and discipline that the DoDAF and MODAF architecture standards and products require.
Enabling clear and unambiguous visualization of the differences in multi-national doctrine and procedures.
Enabling near real-time collaboration and analysis of associated interoperability problems in a multi-national, geographically dispersed environment.

4. Current Interoperability Initiative (Cont.)
What is the current scope (Experiment 08)?
Exchange and collaborative analysis of Process data flow (OV-5) and Event Trace/Sequences (OV-6c) data.
Demonstrate candidate visualization tools and techniques.
Evaluate the precision of the data exchange.
What are the current enabling technologies?
Evolving technologies in Internet exchange techniques and ontologys allowing increased precision in data interoperability (i.e. XML, XSI, WXSD, RDF/OWL, etc.).
Precise data models representing the architectural data.
Emerging improvements in visualization and business intelligence tools.
How does such an exchange help a coalition ops planner?
Brings out unknowns ahead of time, e.g.:
Activities expected to be performed that aren’t
Reporting expected, but doesn’t occur
Event responses or triggers expected don’t occur
Timeline expectations differences between national procedures
Enables the identification of automation opportunities and process improvements.

5. Current Experiment Direction
Compare and contrast coalition processes
Nations agreed on a Military Casualty Management example scenario.
Who are the players? (AU, CA, UK, US)
Other examples-Need JFCOM input
Candidate NATO Operational Processes of concern.
Known doctrine/process differences (Identify country Process differences causing potential interoperability problems)

6. Military Utility Purpose Approach Objective Needs work
To demonstrate potential military operational utility of enabling interoperable exchange of Doctrine and Procedural data utilizing precise DoDAF/MoDAF architecture data.
Approach
Contrast “as-is” manner in which processes are compared and analyzed with with potential “to-be” methods
Show relevance to procedures, tools, methods, etc., that coalition planners would actually use
Objective
To seek out automation opportunities and document how the Coalition Ops Planning scenario would be done today
Manual? (paper, , faxes, phone calls, meetings, …)
Discovery of issues in the field (on-the-job interoperability)
Needs work

7. Military Utility (Cont.)
Objectives (look for automation opportunities)We need to document how the Coalition Ops Planning scenario would be done today
Manual? (paper, , faxes, phone calls, meetings, …)
Discovery of issues in the field (on-the-job interoperability)
Needs work

8. “As Is” Casualty Management Scenario – Manual Execution
Paper, , faxes, phone calls, meetings, etc.

9. “To-Be” enabling technologies & tools considered in the experiment
Visualization Environment
“To-Be” enabling technologies & tools considered in the experiment
Decision Environment
Relational DB Query Environment
SQL Query
OWL/RDFS DB Data Mining Environment
RDFS Database
IDEAS Data Exchange Format (RDFS)

10. “To Be” Military Utility Analysis Plan
EXPERIMENT ‘08
Process Comparison
EXERCISE ‘09
Comms?
Systems?

11. Process comparison requires complex analysis
CONDITIONS?
IE-03 IE-04 IE-05
IE-06
SEQUENCES?
RESOURCES?
Process A
IE-01 IE-02
IE-08
Activity 3
Activity 5
TIMING?
EVENTS?
Activity 1
Activity 2
Activity 6
Activity 4
IE-07
TRIGGERS?
IE-09
CONDITIONS?
IE-06 IE-07
IE-03 IE-04 IE-05
SEQUENCES?
RESOURCES?
Process B
IE-01 IE-02
Activity 3
IE-08 IE-09
EVENTS?
TIMING?
Activity 1
Activity 2
Activity 6
Activity 4
TRIGGERS?

12. Current Plan
Mock-up AU-CA-UK-US casualty mgmt process comparison displays (underway):
Highlight different processes, sequences, information flows, event triggers
Maybe side-by-side
Post on IDEAS FTP site for review
US review with Joint Forces Command
Once OK, examine tools for potential process comparison functionality
*truly different, names assumed aligned or mapped

13. Process Comparison Example Two similar, but different processes for notifying Next of Kin…
UK time for this process: 1hr, 50 min
Casualties are received and sent to be processed and transported
CA time for this process: 1hr, 30 min
CA assigns AO; UK does not

14. Casualties are received and sent to be processed and transported
Process Comparison Example The comparison scenario is “run”… for notifying Next of Kin…
Casualties are received and sent to be processed and transported

15. Casualties are received and sent to be processed and transported
Process Comparison Example Both UK and CA begin Process & Transport activities… for notifying Next of Kin…
UK P&T activity begins
Casualties are received and sent to be processed and transported
CA P&T activity begins

16. Process Comparison Example CA completes P&T activity and begins process of assigning AO while UK continues P&T process…
UK continues P&T process
Casualties are received and sent to be processed and transported
CA completes P&T activity and begins process of assigning AO

17. UK Process completed in 1hr, 50 min
Process Comparison Example UK process is completed in 1 hr., 50 minutes while CA continues AO Assignment process…
UK Process completed in 1hr, 50 min
CA process continues

18. Process Comparison Example UK NOK notification process completed in 1 hr., 50 minutes CA NOK notification process completed in 2 hrs., 30 minutes
UK NOK notification process completed in 1 hr., 50 minutes CA NOK notification process completed in 2 hrs., 30 minutes Coalition average: 2 hrs., 10 min

19. Questions?

20. Backups

21. Comparing Processes In two or more distinct processes … Process A
Activity 3
Activity 5
Activity 1
Activity 2
Activity 6
Activity 4
Process B
Activity 3
Activity 1
Activity 2
Activity 6
Activity 4

22. Comparing Processes Similarities must be easy to identify … Process A
Activity 3
Activity 5
Activity 1
Activity 2
Activity 6
Activity 4
Process B
Activity 3
Activity 1
Activity 2
Activity 6
Activity 4

23. Comparing Processes As well as differences in those processes …
Process A
Activity 3
Activity 5
Activity 1
Activity 2
Activity 6
Activity 4
Process B
Activity 3
Activity 1
Activity 2
Activity 6
Activity 4

24. Comparing Processes What about the information exchanged? Process A
IE-03 IE-04 IE-05
IE-06
Process A
IE-01 IE-02
IE-08
Activity 3
Activity 5
Activity 1
Activity 2
Activity 6
Activity 4
IE-07
IE-09
IE-06 IE-07
IE-03 IE-04 IE-05
Process B
IE-01 IE-02
Activity 3
IE-08 IE-09
Activity 1
Activity 2
Activity 6
Activity 4

25. Comparing Processes
Again, differences exist between the processes and must be identified…
IE-03 IE-04 IE-05
IE-06
Process A
IE-01 IE-02
IE-08
Activity 3
Activity 5
Activity 1
Activity 2
Activity 6
Activity 4
IE-07
IE-09
IE-06 IE-07
IE-03 IE-04 IE-05
Process B
IE-01 IE-02
Activity 3
IE-08 IE-09
Activity 1
Activity 2
Activity 6
Activity 4

26. What about other considerations?
CONDITIONS?
IE-03 IE-04 IE-05
IE-06
SEQUENCES?
RESOURCES?
Process A
IE-01 IE-02
IE-08
Activity 3
Activity 5
TIMING?
EVENTS?
Activity 1
Activity 2
Activity 6
Activity 4
IE-07
TRIGGERS?
IE-09
CONDITIONS?
IE-06 IE-07
IE-03 IE-04 IE-05
SEQUENCES?
RESOURCES?
Process B
IE-01 IE-02
Activity 3
IE-08 IE-09
EVENTS?
TIMING?
Activity 1
Activity 2
Activity 6
Activity 4
TRIGGERS?

27. Available tools for comparisons?
CONDITIONS?
IE-03 IE-04 IE-05
IE-06
SEQUENCES?
RESOURCES?
Process A
IE-01 IE-02
IE-08
Activity 3
Activity 5
TIMING?
EVENTS?
Activity 1
Activity 2
Activity 6
Activity 4
IE-07
TRIGGERS?
IE-09
CONDITIONS?
IE-06 IE-07
IE-03 IE-04 IE-05
SEQUENCES?
RESOURCES?
Process B
IE-01 IE-02
Activity 3
IE-08 IE-09
EVENTS?
TIMING?
Activity 1
Activity 2
Activity 6
Activity 4
TRIGGERS?

28. International Defence Enterprise Architecture Specification (IDEAS)
10 Sep – 14 Sep 07
London, England