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United States Joint Forces Command
Joint Concept Development and Experimentation (JCD&E)
Interagency and Multinational Information Sharing
Architecture and Solutions (IMISAS)
Scene Setter
7 December 2010
Mr. Phil Kearley
Building Partnership Division Lead
Joint Concept Development & Experimentation
USJFCOM, J9
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Information Sharing Challenges
“….following the attacks on the NY World Trade Center towers, engineers
knew 15 to 20 minutes beforehand that the towers would collapse, but
couldn’t notify on-scene personnel…..Defense personnel, first
responders, police, firefighters, rescue workers do not have the ability
to communicate and share information…. This is true then and
now...Benjamin Riley, ADSECDEF
“…Existing DoD guidance on establishing information sharing agreements
with Federal, state local authorities does not mandate action or clear
standards….such agreements need to include allied, partner agencies and
other critical mission partners, with clearly established standards regarding
scope and timeliness of formal information sharing….OSD, Final Report Aug 18,
2010 on Information Sharing Efforts Outside DoD
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Information Sharing Challenges
Lessons Learned from the Haiti Relief Efforts:
“ In Humanitarian Relief and Disaster Relief efforts, we need to provide critical data
and information sharable with the host government, civil society and affected
populations (in local languages) in order to strengthen host country capacities,
leverage local expertise, gain their input, involve them in coordination and empower
them.
“With
so much information coming in from different sources, it is critical that this data
includes essential meta-data (source, date-stamp, geo-reference) and adheres to
the Principles of Humanitarian Information Management, i.e. accessibility,
accountability, impartiality, inclusiveness, interoperability, relevance, sensitivity,
sustainability, timeliness and verifiability…”
“Simply making enormous amounts of data and information available and introducing
new technologies is not enough to ensure efficient coordination and effective
decision-making. Strong management, proper resourcing, advanced training and
recognized standards and policies are necessary to take full advantage of data and
information for strategic analysis and operational applications.”
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Challenges to Interaction
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Training
Trust
Asymmetry
Infrastructure
Culture
Classification
Future Comprehensive Civil-Military
Infrastructure
Trust
Interaction (FCCMI) Concept
Policy
Training
Asymmetry
Procedure
Culture
Human
Factors
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Knowledge
Management
Classification
“Need to Know”
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IMISAS Overview
Problem Statement
Military and civilian actors lack a coherent framework / capability to
information share and collaborate across multiple domains with other actors
primarily due to a lack of procedures, business rules, restrictive policies and
non-interoperable networks and systems
Workshop Description
Identify information sharing gaps and issues and examine potential solutions
to be explored via experimentation
Objectives
• Develop a community of interest
• Identify and validate challenges: information sharing business rules,
policies and procedures, existing technology
•
Compare existing architectures and discuss potential new architecture
IMPACT: Improved information sharing can aid in increasing the
effectiveness of a broad range of operations where military and civilian
actors are engaged by facilitating consultation and possible cooperation
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IMISAS Review
• Baseline Assessment
o Review, validate and add to baseline assessment
• Workshops – Solution Development
o Identify Elements of the solution
• Workshops – Findings Recap
o Cultural/ Human Factors
o Policy & Procedures
o Technology
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Questions?
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JWICS
SIPRNet
NIPRNet
“.mil”
DoE, DoJ
NGOs &
COI
Information
Security
Domain(s)
.gov
Commercial
Internet
ISPs
All Internet
Users
(Good & Bad guys)
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UIS
Unclassified Info
Systems
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Commercial Designed
Environments
~ Open Architecture
DoD Designed Environments
~ Closed Architecture
Top Secret
Networks
~
JWICS
Secret
Networks
~
SIPRNet
Non-Secure
Networks
~
NIPRNet
UIS
Un-Class
Collaborative
Information
Environment(s)
gw
Alliance and Coalition Multiple Classification
Networks
Internet
Community of Interest
NGOs
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