1. International Defence Enterprise Architecture Specification (IDEAS)
Coalition Operations Planning Architecture Data Exchange Military Utility Ideas
10 Sep – 14 Sep 07
London, England

2. 2. Military Utility
Contrast “as-is” way that Coalition Ops Planning is done with “to-be”
Need to show relevant to procedures, tools, methods, … planners would actually use
May not look like classic “architecture”

3. “As-is”
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)

4. “To-Be” Military Utility Scenario
Visualization Environment
Decision Environment
“To-Be” Military Utility Scenario
Relational DB Query Environment
SQL Query
OWL/RDFS DB Data Mining Environment
RDFS Database
IDEAS Data Exchange Format (RDFS)

5. How to compare? Process A Process B Activity 3 Activity 5 Activity 1

6. How to compare? Similarities in process flow … Process A Process B
Activity 3
Activity 5
Activity 1
Activity 2
Activity 6
Activity 4
Process B
Activity 3
Activity 1
Activity 2
Activity 6
Activity 4

7. How to compare? Differences in process flow … Process A Process B
Activity 3
Activity 5
Activity 1
Activity 2
Activity 6
Activity 4
Process B
Activity 3
Activity 1
Activity 2
Activity 6
Activity 4

8. How to compare? What about the information exchanged? 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

9. How to compare? 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

10. How to compare? Differences … What about the information exchanged?
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

11. How to compare? TOOLS? Process A Process B Activity 3 Activity 5
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

12. Plan
Mock-up some CA-US casualty mgmt process comparison displays (started):
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, see what tool gets us close
*truly different, names assumed aligned or mapped

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