1. Universal Core Task Force Connecting People With Information
Information brief
Mike Krieger
Director, Information Policy
Mar 01, 2007
Connecting People With Information

2. Strike COI (includes Coalition Partners)
Enable accelerated strike planning by providing situational awareness information (blue, red, gray force) from now to 12 hours
Leading to DoD and IC universal core for “when, where, what”
Core Enterprise
Services
(Early Capability Baseline)
Other COIs
User authorization
COI vocabularies
Google-like search
Security
Service Discovery
Metadata Registry
Content Discovery
Policy
Strike COI Programs of Record
ISPAN UDOP
Strike
COI-defined Web Srvcs
Authoritative Data Sources
Business
Logic
Producer
Consumer
Warfighter Strike Community of Interest
Communities of Interest – Identify critical business needs
Programs of Record – Expose authoritative data
DISA – Create and support enterprise tools (e.g. catalogs)
Policy – Define and enforce enterprise standards 2

3. Premise for a Universal Core
Log Common Core
C2 Common Core
ISR Common Core
Business Common Core
EIE Common Core
Universal Core
COI Extensions
DoD Component and IC Member Extensions
Information sharing requires agreement with partners on semantics and syntax.
Anticipating who your partners will be is hard.
A valuable approach is the promotion of common syntax and semantics for the few things we can all agree on (i.e. a universal core).
Increased Data Interoperability

4. Outcome of Strike COI Pilot Planning: DoD and IC Universal Core Data Schema
Task/Mission
Strike COI
Extensions
Strike Task/Mission
Service Specific
Air
Mission
Maneuver
Maritime
C2 Common Core
Universal Core
When
Where
What
Constructing a universal core data schema that enables information sharing
Ways to describe “when, where, what”
Minimal set of terms in the core
Agreed to by DoD and Intel community
Appropriate use of open and Federal standards
Extensible by COIs and systems as needed
Strike Spiral 1 pilot is based on initial C2 common core (e.g., Task/Mission)
Incorporates universal core
Increased Agility 4

5. Standards-based Approach
Strike COI Data Management Working Group developed a sound, extensible framework for information sharing
Based on common standards
Geography Markup Language (GML)
Intelligence Community – Information Security Markings (IC-ISM XML schema)
Strike COI framework forms a good basis for a DoD and IC Universal Core
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6. Senior Enterprise Services Governance Group (SESGG)
Vision: Ensure that the DoD and Intelligence Community (IC) Net-Centric Environment evolves toward an enterprise services-based architecture that improves the joint community’s ability to respond to evolving operations and mission through increased information sharing and agility.
Responsibilities:
DoD and Intelligence Community (IC) Implementation of a Joint Net-Centric Data Strategy
Enterprise Services Policy, Implementation Guidance, and Standards
Oversee Joint Data Strategy and Enterprise Services Implementation
Initial Action: Established a Universal Core Task Force
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7. Connecting People With Information
State of Play
Work to date
Strike COI DMWG developed XML schemas
30-day task force developed white paper with criteria for Universality
Upcoming
Strike COI DMWG will brief back to SESGG (Mar 8)
Recommendations for which parts are “Universal”
Evaluation framework to be described by task force in more detail
SESGG to develop:
Governance processes – Who decides, when, and by what authority?
Evaluation methodology – How to apply criteria developed?
Policy framework for implementation – What does the decision mean?
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8. Connecting People With Information
Questions?
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9. Connecting People With Information
Definitions
Universal Core – the set of concepts that require no specific expertise for understanding. i.e. a set of things that anyone can understand.
Common Core – the set of concepts that have applicability to two or more communities of interest, but are not universal.
Universal Core Schema – an implementable specification of syntax and semantics (such as an XML schema) for a specific concept that is recommended for use across the enterprise – i.e. something that developers will code against, and that program managers will put on contract.
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