Defense Intelligence Information Enterprise (DI2E)

The Defense Intelligence Information Enterprise (DI2E) is an overarching construct for integrating operational intelligence capabilities in support of DoD missions. This community is closely related to the DoD Intelligence Information System (DoDIIS) community, but the focus here is more on the operational military. Here is a bit from the DI2E conference site:

The first Defense Intelligence Information Enterprise (DI2E) Worldwide Conference & Technology Exposition will take place at the Hyatt Regency Dallas at Reunion. The theme of this year’s conference is “Converging the Enterprise”. The DI2E is the logical integration of the successes of the Distributed Common Ground/Surface System (DCGS) and Joint Intelligence Operations Center (JIOC) Enterprises to support our defense, national, and international partners with all-source intelligence and counterintelligence.

The 2011 DI2E Worldwide Conference and Technology Demonstration brings together developers, program offices, and users to focus on how to best deliver a professional, fully integrated, and seamless Enterprise. This Enterprise will provide the best intelligence, counterintelligence, and security information under any condition or circumstance, whenever and wherever, in support of the warfighter, coalition and the national intelligence requirements.

This is a great conference for learning about emerging mission needs in this domain.

To get more info and to register see: http://www.ncsi.com/di2e11/index.html

The agenda is below:

Morning Session – Strategic Perspectives

Enhance awareness of how JIOC, DCGS and IC initiatives are key enablers to effective implementation of information sharing within the broader Defense Intelligence and Command and Control Enterprises.

Morning Session — User Perspectives

Provide a forum for exchange of ideas, enterprise level transformation activities, the roles of our coalition partners, and an opportunity to explore the full spectrum of DI2E related initiatives.

0750 – 0800

Welcoming Remarks

Mr. Christopher B. Jackson

Deputy Chief, ISR Integration, Experimentation, and System Support Division (J28), United States Joint Forces Command

0800 – 0830

Keynote Speaker

Brigadier General Brian J. Donahue

Director of Command, Control, Communications, and Computer Systems, United States Central Command/J6

United States contribution to the Afghanistan Mission Network has enabled the supported CJFT CDR’s intent – changing the coalition operational norm in AFG by enabling a true coalition fight. CENTCOM believes this is not a niche requirement for this current fight in AFG – it is the new national norm and must become part of the CENTCOM manned posture.

0830 – 0945

Panel Presentation: COCOM/JIOC Panel

Moderator:
Mr. Mark S. Chandler

Senior Advisor, Warfighter Support, Joint and Coalition Warfighter Support, Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence

Panel Members:
Mr. Robert T. Hunt

Deputy Director (Support), Joint Intelligence Operations Center U.S. European Command (JIOCEUR)

Mr. John A. Marshall

Chief Technology Officer, J2, United States Joint Forces Command

Captain Joseph B. Spegele

Deputy Director of Intelligence for North American Aerospace Defense Command and United States Northern Command

Colonel David J. Gibson

Division Chief, Intelligence Operations Division, Intelligence Directorate, United States Transportation Command

Mr. Michael N. Schulman

United States Strategic Command Assistant J2 for Intelligence Support & Chief, Defense Intelligence Agency Forward Element

Mr. Bill “Rod” Moore

Deputy Director of Intelligence, United States Central Command

Captain Bruce F. Loveless

Commander, Joint Intelligence Operations Center, United States Pacific Command

Mr. Konrad J. Trautman

Director of Intelligence, United States Southern Command

Mr. Russell W. Horton

Chief of Intelligence Transformation, United States Forces Korea

Mr. David N. Singley

Chief, Enterprise Integration and Information Sharing Division, Deputy Directorate for Warfighter Support and Integration Directorate for Intelligence, J2

Mr. Gary H. Thompson

Deputy Director, Directorate of Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance, United States Southern Command

Colonel Mike Ellert-Beck

Joint Intelligence Operations Center Director, United States Cyber Command

Panelists will discuss operations in their theater, how DI2E/IT supports their operations, and what their primary requirements are; this will be followed by free-flowing discussions with the audience.

0945 – 1030

Technology Exposition/Networking Break

1030 – 1200

Panel Presentation: Information Sharing & Interoperability of Services/Applications

Moderator:
Mr. Neill Tipton

Director, Information Sharing and Partner Engagement, Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence

Panel Members:
Dr. Ann M. Carbonell

Director, National System for Geospatial-Intelligence Expeditionary Architecture, Acquisition Directorate, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency

Mr. Mark S. Chandler

Senior Advisor, Warfighter Support, Joint and Coalition Warfighter Support, Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence

Ms. Annette L. Redmond

Special Advisor for Enterprise Intelligence Operations, Army Intelligence & Security Command

Mr. James Harris

Chief, Office of Enterprise Management, Defense Intelligence Agency

1200 – 1300

Technology Exposition/Lunch

Afternoon Session

Providing a framework through the DI2E Community for interoperability with all COCOMs, CSAs, DoD, and the IC for the purposes of disseminating discoverable and reusable services through web applications.

1300 – 1430

Panel Presentation: Warfighter — The Tactical Perspective

Panel Moderator:
Colonel Barry Harris

Commander, 513th Military Intelligence Brigade, Intelligence and Security Command

Panel Members:
Colonel Paul D. Nelson

Commander, 480th Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) Wing, Langley Air Force Base

Mr. Duane “Dewey” Dannewitz

Director of Capabilities Integration for the United States Army Training and Doctrine Command’s Joint Training Counter-IED Operations and Integration Center and Training Brain Operations Center

Mr. Vincent Kapral

Senior Intelligence Technical Advisor and Intelligence Product Lead for Readiness, Modernization, Training, and Assessments, Navy Cyber Forces

Captain Christy Whitfield

DCS, G-2, Plans Officer, United States Army Special Operations Command

Colonel John M. Altman

Chief of the Technology Division, for the Deputy Chief of Staff, G-2, in the Headquarters, Department of the Army, Pentagon

Mr. Bernard D. Rogan

Chief Knowledge Officer, Marine Corps Intelligence Activity

1430 – 1515

Technology Exposition/Networking Break

1515 – 1630

Panel Presentation: Coalition Panel

Moderator:
Mr. Richard Radcliffe

Director for International Technology and Architectures, Information and Partner Engagement Directorate, Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Joint and Coalition Warfigther Support, Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence

Panel Members:
Mr. Chad Hodgens

Director Battlespace Awareness, Joint Capability Coordination Division, Vice Chief of Defence Group, Australian Department of Defence

Commander Peter Kwant

Branch Head C4ISR, Department Operational Policy, Defence Staff, Ministry of Defence, Royal Netherlands Navy

Lieutenant Colonel David A. Quick

Chief of Defence Intelligence, J2 Force Development, Canadian Forces

Mr. Terrance J. Meyer

Intelligence Chief Information Officer, United States Central Command

1630 – 1715

Workshop Sessions

1. Workshop #1: NGA Initiatives for Improving Motion Imagery Interoperability and Usage

   Mr. Donnie Self

   Chief, Sensor Assimilation Division, Acquisition Directorate, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency

   With the constant and insatiable demand for motion imagery, the session will cover NGA’s vision for motion imagery as well as NGA’s best practices and experiences implementing a motion imagery capability including working with the commercial broadcast industry. Additional topics to be covered include motion imagery interoperability & standards and their importance.

2. Workshop #2: Next Generation Risk & Acceptance (R&A) Related to Secure Trusted Cloud Computing

   Moderators:
   Mr. Rob Vietmeyer

   Cloud Computing Lead in the Enterprise Services & Integration, Office of the Department of Defense (CIO)

   Mr. Todd G. Myers

   Chief Technology Advisor, NSG Expeditionary Architecture, Acquisition Directorate, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency

   The purpose of this panel session is to elaborate on current R&A and the requirement to establish two distinct processes to R&A the physical infrastructure independent from the virtual hosted services in order to provide a trusted state compute and application hosting not bound to the physical infrastructure in order to serve on-demand and self-service mission needs across DoD and the IC.

3. Workshop #3: Activity Based Intelligence

   Mr. William T. Roberts

   Chief, Analysis & Applications Division, InnoVision Directorate, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency

   The impending exponential increase in data resulting from the flood of full motion video sensors and emergence of gigapixel-class sensors in theater demands a new analytic paradigm to effectively and efficiently provide support to ongoing operations. This session will take a look at the solution—ABI, enabled by extracting the activities of interest from the raw data streams and disseminating in standards-compliant formats, combined with advanced analytics and assistive, automated exploitation capabilities providing alerts and notifications thereby reducing data discovery and allowing analysts to focus their efforts on higher level problems.

4. Workshop #4: Industry Advisory Group (IAG)

   Moderator: Mr. Dave Chesebrough

   President, Association for Enterprise Information

   The DCGS Industry Advisory group will hold a workshop on modes and methods of industry engagement with DCGS/DI2E. Industry and government representatives will identify and discuss topics that address enterprise aspects of DCGS and the evolving intelligence information enterprise.

5. Workshop #5: CSA and Reserve Compnenet (RC) IT Way Ahead and Interoperability with DI2E

   Mr. Thomas Tucker

   Senior Analyst, Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Warfighter Support, Warfighter Requirements and Evaluation Directorate, Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence

   This session will provide status update of CSA & RC IT capability integration into the DI2E, their interoperability with COCOM/JIOC operations/architecture followed by associated discussions.

6. Workshop #6: Identity and Access Management Panel

   Moderator: Mr. Ron Spear

   Senior Enterprise Engineer, DCGS Enterprise Activation Team – DCGS Multi-Service Execution Team Management Office (DMO)

   Panel Members:
   Mr. Gregory C. Hall

   Co-Chair of the Authorization and Attribute Services Committee, ODNI CIO

   Mr. Arthur R. Friedman

   Senior Strategist for Privilege Management, OASD(NII / DASD IIA

   Mr. Jeff Gilliatt

   Chief Engineer, DCGS Multi-Service Execution Team (MET) Office (DMO)

   Discover progress and challenges to identity management and allowing access or not based on that identity, which are fundamental to balance the need-to-protect with the responsibility-to-provide. The panel will share insight from a policy, standards, and technical point of view into DoD and IC intelligence information enterprise identity and access management.

7. Workshop #7: The DCGS Integration Backbone (DIB): Data Services Layer of the DI2E Architecture

   Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Tschour

   Director, Distributed Common Ground/Surface System (DCGS) Multi-Service Execution Team (MET) Office (DMO), Intelligence and Special Programs Division, AFPEO C2ISR Directorate, Electronic Systems Center, Hanscom Air Force Base

   The DCGS enterprise established a baseline infrastructure and common services among the DCGS Programs of Record called the DCGS Integration Backbone (DIB). The DIB will be leveraged as the data layer of the DI2E to enable intelligence sharing among DCGS, the Joint Intelligence Operations Centers (JIOCs) and the Intelligence Community as well as coalition partners. Topics will include:

   • Metadata development, test and management
   • The DIB Evolution to the DI2E Data Framework with MTS demo.

8. Workshop #8: Building “The Big” Enterprise: Information Sharing Across Communities

   Moderator:
   Ms. Lorraine Wilson

   Director for Enterprise Engineering and Knowledge Management, Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence

   This panel will look at the design considerations, constraints and imperatives as we collectively engineer the information enterprise to enable sharing information across many communities, with many customers, who have very different mission needs. The DOD and the DNI have information sharing initiatives underway to meet their community and customer specific needs. USD(I) has established the DI2E which is meant to further articulate the information sharing framework for the Military Intelligence Community in order to ensure intelligence information (both traditional and non-traditional intelligence) is available to support the full spectrum of operations, planning and decision-making activities; from strategic to tactical; from the highest levels of classification to the unclassified security domains.

   The challenge for the DI2E is that it must be consistent with DOD CIO and DISA as well as the national Intelligence Community directions. This panel will focus on those intersection areas that are most critical to creating a broad information sharing environment that supports the DOD/IC missions and will highlight the particularly challenging issues or those most critical to taking this from a “Powerpoint” discussion to real capability.

   User Perspectives

Inspire new thinking — the roles industry can play in assisting in the area acquisition of services, capability metrics, and rapid delivery of solutions to the Warfighter.

0800 – 0805

Welcoming Remarks

Mr. Christopher B. Jackson

Deputy Chief, ISR Integration, Experimentation, and System Support Division (J28), United States Joint Forces Command

0805 – 0850

Using an Integrated Framework Approach to Manage An Enterprise

Mr. Robert W. Noonan

Senior Vice President, Booz Allen Hamilton

In order for the Department to develop, field, and manage the Defense Intelligence Enterprise, it needs to look beyond the latest technology. Five critical areas of focus, Policy, People, Operations, Technology, Management; are essential to successful enterprise mission accomplishment.

0850 – 1020

Panel Presentation: Industry Leaders Panel

Moderator:
Mr. Robert W. Noonan

Senior Vice President, Booz Allen Hamilton

Panel Members:
Mr. Andras Szakal

Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, IBM United States Federal

Mr. Steven Lefrancois

Chief Technology Officer, Verizon Federal, Verizon Business

Mr. David Fastabend

Vice President, Advanced Information Systems, ITT Information Systems

Mr. Edward Bush

Vice President, C4ISR Networked Systems (CNS), Northrop Grumman

Mr. Brian I. Geehan

General Manager, Department of Defense Services, Microsoft

Mr. John D. Thomas

Senior Vice President and General Manager of Intelligence Systems, SAIC

The panel is composed of leaders from across industry that are providing the technology that is at the heart of the intelligence information enterprise, and for whom robust enterprise capabilities are a matter of extreme importance, both for their own operations and those of the clients they serve. The panel will explore the imperatives, strategies, potential roadblocks and pathways for success for DI2E as they consider the real challenges faced in creating a fully integrated and seamless enterprise. Panelists will relate the DI2E strategy to their experiences with their own companies and customers.

1020 – 1035

Break

1035 – 1150

Panel Presentation: Emerging Technologies Panel — Cloud Technologies

Moderator:
Mr. John Marshall

Chief Technology Officer, Joint Intelligence Directorate, United States Joint Forces Command

Panel Participants:
Mr. Thomas Preston

Solutions Program Manager, Global Government Solutions and Corporate Security Programs, Cisco Systems, Inc.

Dr. Albert N. (Chip) Copper III, Ph.D.

Principal Engineer, Brocade Communications Systems Inc.

Mr. Lewis Shepherd

Director of The Microsoft Institute for Advanced Technology in Governments (MSI)

Colonel Charles A. Wells

Project Manager, Distributed Common Ground System — Army

Mr. Robert Gourley

Founder and Chief Technology Officer, Crucial Point, LLC

Ms. Lorraine Wilson

Director, Enterprise Engineering and Knowledge Management, Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence

Mr. Joseph A. Smith

Technical Executive, Sensor Assimilation Division, Acquisition Directorate, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency

Ms. Jackie George

Cloud Program Manager, Office of the Director of National Intelligence

Panel Members both from government and industry will discuss current cloud technologies being employed within the community and industry. The panel will address how cloud technologies are enabling the community to share information more easily in a cloud environment. Industry panelist will focus on next generation technologies that will change our everyday lives.

1150 – 1235

Enterprise Leadership: Unleashing the Power of Alignment

Mr. George H. Labovitz, Ph.D.

Founder and Chief Executive Officer, ODI and Professor of Management and Organizational Behavior, Boston University Graduate School of Management

1235 – 1245

Closing Remarks

Mr. Christopher B. Jackson

Deputy Chief, ISR Integration, Experimentation, and System Support Division (J28), United States Joint Forces Command

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The DoDIIS Conference Agenda is now up at the conference site, and it really looks to be a great one. The confernece will be great for technology leaders in government, technology providers from industry, and the mission-focused executive leadership who seeks to guide both. If you want to shape the future, come to the DoDIIS conference and see what secure enterprises with advanced analytical missions are up to.

I’ve pasted the full agenda below, but some key highlights include:

• An overview by DIA’s CIO and Director of DS, Mr. Grant Schneider.
• Insights into secure collaboration provided by Mr. John “Mike” McConnell, former Director of National Intelligence and a mentor to legions of us who have long revered him.
• An overview of the mission needs put on the DIA technology team, provided by the Director of DIA Lieutenant General Ron Burgess.
• Insights into the human element of the system provided by noted professor and thinker Robert Axelrod.
• Deep dives into successes in innovation and information sharing, “CIA Style” presented by champion innovator Mr. Geoffrey Fowler, Director and Managing Editor of the World Intelligence Review (WIRe).
• Many breakout sessions are scheduled, including a wide range of mission-focused topics and advanced technology deep dives. I personally plan on hitting the ones on Hadoop (of course, since “Big Data” is an issue we should all be accelerating into our enterprise). I’ll also attend the “Data Center for the Future” talk since DoDIIS planners are always at the forefront of datacenter design and I’m sure I’ll pick up some good tips there.  I also noticed a breakout on the “Egyptian Revolution and Twitter” that might be insightful.

I hope to run into about 2000 of my friends at the event. I’ll also be blogging a bit from there, as will Ryan Kamauff and Chris Barnes.  And look for us on Twitter as well. We are at: @bobgourley, @Ryan_Kamauff, @ChrisBarnesCP

And, consider this a pre-announcement: we are putting the finishing touches on a site meant to pull together our evals of DoDIIS technology and twitter feeds/etc during the event. Find it at http://dodiistech.com

For more details and to register see: http://www.ncsi.com/dodiis11/index.html

Here is the DoDIIS agenda:

Sunday 1 May

Evening reception/strategy sessions/networking.

Monday 2 May

0750 – 0800

Announcements

0800 – 0830

Keynote Speaker

Mr. Grant M. Schneider Deputy Director for Information Management and Chief Information Officer, Defense Intelligence Agency

0830 – 0915

Secure Collaboration — Technology to Support the Mission

Mr. John “Mike” McConnell Executive Vice President, Booz Allen Hamilton

0915 – 1000

Networking Break/Technology Exposition

1000 – 1045

Keynote Speaker

Lieutenant General Ronald L. Burgess, Jr.Director, Defense Intelligence Agency

1100 – 1145

Vulnerabilities of Wetware Professor Robert Axelrod Walgreen Professor for the Study of Human Understanding, University of Michigan

1145 – 1300

Networking Break/Technology Exposition/Lunch

1300 – 1345

Breakouts / Learning Labs

1400 – 1445

Breakouts / Learning Labs

1445 – 1545

Networking Break/Technology Exposition

1545 – 1630

Breakouts / Learning Labs

Tuesday 3 May

0750 – 0800

Announcements

0800 – 0845

The Real Business Value of IT: How CIOs Create and Communicate Value

Mr. Richard Hunter Vice President Distinguished Analyst, Gartner

0845 – 0930

Disruptive Innovation in Computing, and Mission Impact in the Next Decade

Mr. David McQueeney Vice President of Software Research, IBM

0930 – 1030

Networking Break/Technology Exposition

1030 – 1115

Breakouts / Learning Labs

1130 – 1215

Breakouts / Learning Labs

1215 – 1330

Networking Break/Technology Exposition/Lunch

1330 – 1415

Potential for Two-Way Collaboration

Mr. Terry Kline Vice President and Chief Information Officer, General Motors

1415 – 1515

IC Executive Board: Integrating the Intelligence Mission through Technology

Moderator:
Mr. Al Tarasiuk Assistant Director of National Intelligence and Chief Information Officer, Intelligence Community

Panelists:
Mr. James Beagles Acting Director, Chief Information Officer, Department of Homeland Security

Mr. David DeVries Principal Director, Office of the Department of Defense Chief Information Officer, Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence

Mr. Dean E. Hall Associate Executive Assistant Director and Deputy Chief Information Officer, Federal Bureau of Investigation

Mr. Kelly A. Miller Deputy Chief Information Officer, National Security Agency/Central Security Service

Mr. Paul E. Muench Deputy Chief Information Officer, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency

Mr. Grant M. Schneider Deputy Director for Information Management and Chief Information Officer, Defense Intelligence Agency

Mr. Neill Tipton Director, Information Sharing and Partner Engagement, Department of Defense

Ms. Jill Tummler Singer Chief Information Officer, National Reconnaissance Office

Ms. Jeanne C. Tisinger Chief Information Officer, Central Intelligence Agency

1515 – 1615

Networking Break/Technology Exposition

1615 – 1700

Breakouts / Learning Labs

Wednesday 4 May

0750 – 0800

Announcements

0800 – 0845

Unifying Intelligence Strategies — The Central, Critical Node to Achieving Integrated Intelligence

Mr. Robert Cardillo Deputy Director for Intelligence Integration, Office of the Director of National Intelligence

0845 – 0930

Innovation in Information Sharing — CIA Style

Mr. Geoffrey K. Fowler

Director and Managing Editor, World Intelligence Review (WIRe), Central Intelligence Agency

0930 – 1030

Networking Break/Technology Exposition

1030 – 1130

Services Panel: Secure and Collaborative Intelligence to Support the Warfighter

Panel Moderator: Mr. James R. Martin Director, ISR Programs, Office of the Under Secretary of Defense (Intelligence)

Panel Members:

Mr. Robert “Bo” T. Martin Deputy Director, ISR Capabilities, U.S. Air Force

Mr. Gregory B. Palmertree Chief Technology Officer, Marine Corps Intelligence

Ms. Lynn Schnurr Senior Technical Advisor, Army Intelligence Chief Information Officer, Information Management, Deputy Chief of Staff, G2 Headquarters, Department of the Army

Mr. Jack Y. Gumtow Chief Information Officer, Office of Naval Intelligence

1130 – 1215

The Path to Secure and Agile Cloud Computing

Mr. Michael Capellas Chairman and CEO, VCE, The Virtual Computing Environment Company

1215 – 1315

Networking Break/Technology Exposition/Lunch

1315 – 1400

Breakouts / Learning Labs

1415 – 1500

Breakouts / Learning Labs

1500 – 1545

Networking Break/Technology Exposition

1545 – 1630

Breakouts / Learning Labs

Thursday 5 May

0750 – 0800

Announcements

0800 – 0845

NIST Cloud Computing Program: Useful Information for USG Cloud Adopters

Ms. Dawn Leaf Senior Advisor, National Institute of Standards and Technology Information Technology Laboratory and Senior Executive for Cloud Computing

0845 – 0930

Keynote Speaker

Mr. James Stout Senior Director, DoD Customer Executive, Avanade Federal Services

0930 – 0945

Networking Break

0945 – 1030

Intelligence Studies: What Academia Provides

Professor James Breckenridge Dean of the Walker School of Business and Chair of the Department of Intelligence Studies at Mercyhurst College

1030 – 1100

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As a former DoDIIS CTO, one of my favorite things at the yearly DoDIIS Worldwide Conference is the expo floor. Visiting the many vendors and government displays there is a great way to get a snapshot of available technology. Firms that show technology at DoDIIS bring capabilities that are ready to go now. And, for the most part, the technologies there have great enterprise capabilities that work at scale.

Crucial Point will have a team of technology evaluators at the event. We will be visting every company there to ensure we have the latest info on capabilities. This helps us advise clients on technology selection, helps us perform due diligence assessments, and also provides great info we can use for our concept development at CTOlabs.com Additionally, time on the expo floor generates plenty of info and material for our writing here at CTOvision.com and at FedCyber.com.

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The 2011 DoDIIS Worldwide Conference will be held 1-5 May 2011 at the COBO at Detroit Michigan. This is always an exciting event for technologists enthused about continued improvement of mission capabilities. The conference is focused on the mission of the US DoD intelligence enterprise, but the many topics tackled at the event are of interest to technologists from a wide range of enterprises.

For more see the official conference site at: http://www.ncsi.com/dodiis11/index.html

Here is some more info from the site:

The Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) announces the 2011 Department of Defense Intelligence Information Systems (DoDIIS) Worldwide Conference!

Hosted annually by the DIA Directorate for Information Management (DS) and Chief Information Officer, DoDIIS Worldwide provides a unique opportunity for defense intelligence community members and industry peers to come together for knowledge sharing, training and discussion of current and future information technology (IT) challenges and requirements.

The conference’s 2011 theme, Secure and Collaborative Intelligence in Defense of the Nation, highlights the DIA Chief Information Officer’s commitment to developing and maintaining secure and reliable networks for Department of Defense personnel, services and information technology customers. Through partnerships and collaboration, the intelligence community facilitates the secure collection, analysis and presentation of actionable intelligence to warfighters and decision makers in a timely, comprehensive manner.

DoDIIS Worldwide Conference will attract more than 3,000 participants including 400+ exhibits from across the globe as well as expert speakers, interactive training sessions and daily networking opportunities.

We will be posting some additional context on the event in the coming days, and during DoDIIS will be blogging on some of the ongoing activities. We will also keep our twitter feed up at http://twitter.com/ctovision Please connect there and stay in touch.

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The Endeca Government Summit was yesterday.  The agenda included some fantastic presentations from customers who have used Endeca to address issues requiring incredible scale (billions of records) and incredible scope (including the need to discover meaning in data in milliseconds) and human-focused interfaces (including, in every solution I saw, an ability to enable humans to interact with data in ways that search never enables).

One of my personal/professional friends was on the agenda:  Howard Block of NuWave Solutions. Howard is a master of technology with computer science degrees but his real contributions to the community center around making technology work for humans.  The frameworks he has helped coordinate and implement and open widget approach he has helped the community field are all focused on users and their missions, and the success he has shown in Endeca deployments are just icing on the cake. It is great seeing great people succeed like this.  Howard briefed lessons learned from his company’s deployment of solutions to the law enforcement community, including scalable, low-cost solutions enabling discovery across multiple sources of information- all focused on mission needs.

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Another speaker of note was Mr. Chris Darby.  Chris is a highly regarded technology professional I have had the pleasure of learning from in the past.  His current position is as President and CEO of In-Q-Tel (the independent investment firm that identifies innovative technologies to support the missions of the CIA and the Intelligence Community).   The agenda for the conference said the following about Mr. Darby’s presentation:

“To say that every large government organization recognizes the importance of “connecting the dots” would not only be accurate – it would be an understatement. Faced with more than just text, these organizations need technologies that can help process all types of non-trivial data collection – including video, voice, and images – while overcoming issues ranging from deciphering multiple languages to dealing with “dirty data.” This information is necessary to many communities of interest, each of which has different needs and uses. Identifying technologies that can help extract meaningful, actionable insight is essential. His work with the Intelligence Community (IC) provides Mr. Darby with a unique viewpoint from which to assess the challenges and opportunities in the “connect the dots” landscape. He will provide insight into In-Q-Tel’s Connect the Dots initiative and discuss the importance of leveraging both established and emerging technologies for the effort.”

I found Chris’s presentation to be riveting, for many reasons.  One is the way he clearly articulates that calculations of “risk” in the commercial sector that end up driving many decisions in business are normally not going to translate to calculations of risk in the national security sector.  When the mission is knowing enemy intentions and stopping attacks before they occur, commercial risk models will not apply.  That dynamic has always existed in the community, but it is being highlighted even more in this period of transition to a world of more asymmetric threats.  Chris’s brief highlighted how the oft used phrase “connect the dots” can sometimes make people want to oversimplify, but really this is complex.  We are, in most cases, looking for patterns of life.  And we are doing it with incredible quantities of data.

Of the many things that must be done with “dots” (which is now a bit of a shorthand way of saying “data”), perhaps the hardest are the ability to assimilate and analyze.  This is a key contribution of Endeca.

We have written about Endeca at CTOlabs.com.  Find the write-up here: http://ctolabs.com/2010/10/endecas-mdex-engine/

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The 2010 DoDIIS Worldwide Conference will be held 23-27 May in Phoenix Arizona.  This venue is hosted by the Defense Intelligence Agency’s Directorate for Information Management and Chief Information Officer.  The focus is on topics relevant to mission success for the Department of Defense Intelligence Information Systems (DoDIIS).  DoDIIS is all about facilitating the collection, analysis and presentation of intelligence to tactical users and policy makers in a secure and timely manner.

This year’s agenda is particularly impressive.  The agenda (which is pasted below as a reference) includes world class industry speakers like Joseph Tucci, CEO of EMC, and Dr. Steven Armentrout, CEO of Parabon.  Government speakers include the leaders of DoD intelligence IT like Grant Schneider, Roy Apseloff, and Casey Henson.  The national intelligence IT team will also be present in force, including a panel chaired by ODNI CIO Priscilla Guthrie.

The event will also hold an expo floor with 100′s of advanced technologies and mission-focused solutions being demonstrated.  It is my intent to spend time with 100% of the companies that have decided to participate in the expo, this is a great way to take the pulse of technology that is ready for insertion into large enterprises and a great way to generate topics for future blog posts and for evaluation at CTOlabs.com

Agenda:

24 May 2010

25 May 2010:

26 May 2010:

27 May 2010:

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As previously announced, DIA has announced awardees for their major information technology acquisition program Solutions for the Intelligence Technology Enterprise (SITE).

We are starting to see press releases from the winning firms.  The Centauri Solutions release is below.  This is one I have a deep personal interest in because they graciously allowed my firm (Crucial Point LLC) to participate on their team.

For Immediate Release
Contact: Mark Greer

Monday, May 17, 2010
(703)740-1284

CenTauri Solutions Awarded Major Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) Information Technology Contract.

ALEXANDRIA, VIRGINIA – May 17, 2010 – CenTauri Solutions, LLC (CenTauri) announced that it was awarded a contract from the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) to provide Solutions for the Information Technology Enterprise (“SITE”). With a ceiling of $6.6 billion over five years, SITE is the largest, indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract awarded by DIA to support information technology requirements across the Defense Intelligence Enterprise and the greater Intelligence Community.

CenTauri, one of 11 prime SITE awardees, assembled a synergistic team of small, medium and large companies having deep experience and proven performance across the broad spectrum of potential SITE mission requirements.

“The entire CenTauri “Constellation” Team is excited by the opportunity to provide vital IT services to one of the nation’s premier intelligence agencies” said CenTauri Managing Partner, Jim Kelly. “We believe that our customer focused management philosophy coupled with the diverse skill mix of our team will be most effective in helping DIA meet the IT challenges of the future. It is an honor to have been selected for this important mission”, said Kelly.

Headquartered in Alexandria, Virginia, CenTauri Solutions is a technology company that provides innovative solutions to the National Security, Intelligence and Homeland Security communities. In addition to consulting and professional services, CenTauri also provides innovative products in the areas of long dwell ISR, video surveillance and associative memory, among others.

For more information about CenTauri or SITE, visit their web site at www.centauri-solutions.com or contact Mark Greer at 703-740-1284 or mark.greer@centauri-solutions.com.

-end-

I saw first hand the hard work that CenTauri put into this effort and I can see why they won.  CenTauri has a history of delivering results in world class ways and I know they will be called on to serve in rather significant ways on this contract.

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The Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) has just announced awardees for their major information technology acquisition program Solutions for the Intelligence Technology Enterprise (SITE).  Companies on this contract will play very important roles in providing IT support to the Department of Defense Intelligence Information System (DoDIIS) (I wish all these companies the very best and will congratulate them in person at the DoDIIS conference 23-27 May 2009).

Awardees are:

• BAE Systems Information Technology, Inc.
• General Dynamics Information Technology, Inc.
• Lockheed Martin Corporation
• Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation
• Science Applications International Corporation
• Systems Research and Applications Corporation
• BC Fed Group LLC
• CenTauri Solutions LLC (my firm Crucial Point LLC is part of this team)
• Enterprise Information Services, Inc.
• Red Arch Solutions, Inc.
• Worldwide Information Network Systems, Inc.

Here is more from the DIA press release:

QUOTE:

DIA Release 10-05-01
May 14, 2010
Solutions for the Information Technology Enterprise Awards

(Washington D.C. – May 14, 2010) The Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) has awarded 11
indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contracts supporting information technology
(IT) requirements across the Defense Intelligence Enterprise and the greater Intelligence
Community. The recipients of these contract awards are: (large) BAE Systems Information
Technology, Inc.; General Dynamics Information Technology, Inc.; Lockheed Martin
Corporation; Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation; Science Applications International
Corporation; and Systems Research and Applications Corporation; (small) BC Fed Group
LLC; CenTauri Solutions LLC; Enterprise Information Services, Inc.; Red Arch Solutions,
Inc.; and Worldwide Information Network Systems, Inc.

The Solutions for the Information Technology Enterprise (SITE) contract is designed to
enable streamlined execution, simplify purchase requests, standardize acquisition
documentation, improve enterprise program management for customers, provide better
reporting capability, improve contracting performance and data integrity and make the
Agency’s overall IT acquisition processes more efficient. Although managed by DIA, the
contract will also incorporate IT requirements from customers across the Defense Intelligence
Enterprise and the Intelligence Community. SITE is the second in a series of DIA Enterprise
IDIQ vehicles intended to bring acquisition excellence to the Agency. It follows DIA’s IDIQ
contract vehicle entitled “Solutions for Intelligence Analysis” which was awarded in
December 2007.

The SITE contract will have a ceiling of $6.6 billion over five years. DIA is expecting SITE
to facilitate cost efficiencies, innovative technical solutions, and enhanced competitive
opportunities for industry. Competition among the listed firms for task orders under the SITE
contract vehicle will begin this summer.

The SITE contract vehicle will replace the multiple awards for DIA’s Department of Defense
Intelligence Information System (DODIIS) Integration and Engineering Support Contracts
(DIESCON3) and replace the Air Force’s longstanding Intelligence Information, Command
and Control, Equipment and Enhancements (ICE2) single-award contract vehicle.

(For additional information, contact Defense Intelligence Agency Office of Public Affairs at
703 695-0071 or via e-mail at DIA-PAO@dia.mil)

UNQUOTE

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Carahsoft is a unique, trusted firm that helps government find and rapidly acquire the right technologies and helps high tech firms successfully interact with government (which has famously onerous processes for businesses that want to serve the federal mission).  Carahsoft is a client of my firm and one of the things I’m particularly proud about is their sponsorship of venues where government and industry tech leaders can interact together.  One venue of note is a series they coordinate called the Intelligence Community Executive Forum.

This periodic event focuses on executives from the IC and the industry companies around the IC.  Today’s session of the ICEF focused on industry and commercial technologies addressing the Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative.

It is hard to capture the content of a venue like this.  Its true value comes from the dynamic interactions and high data rate conversations that take place throughout.  But I thought I should try to provide some gist of what happened so you can determine whether or not you should participate in future venues like this. Give the agenda below a quick glance then I’ll add some additional context:

Agenda:

During breaks several sponsors were providing demos and additional information on their technology including:

A quick gist:

Don Boian of Cyber Command provided great context and a good kickoff to dialog.  Then throughout the event, cyber thought leaders in and out of government discussed the state of current technologies and current mission needs in cyber-focused organizations.  Some of these mission needs are truly enduring.  For example, the need for defense in depth as a strategy and approach vice just point solutions.  But today, defense in depth is not enough.  Adversaries always find a way in and defenders must continuously monitor and prepare for remedial action.  With the incredibly high volumes of data and information around those intrusions new means must be found to gain insights into what is occurring and then determine the appropriate action to take.  This must be done so fast new operational constructs around “dynamic defense” are required.  Defenders require capabilities that can increase the speed of good guy decision-making.  There must be speed in vulnerability detection, speed in intrusion detection, speed in decision-making and speed in execution.  Cyber Command defenders use the phrase “operate at network speeds.”

Another common theme throughout the event was a call for enhanced situational awareness in the cyber domain. The bad news is that call has been made for decades now.  There has been movement in enhancing situational awareness, but nothing yet fills the need.  More work is required.

Another theme was the need to enable humans to interact with data in far better, far faster ways.  Cyber data needs to be rapidly run through automated tools that can enable not just search but discovery using tools like Endeca.

Collaboration for cyber related commands and organization is another area where many enhancements have been made lately.  In a very good trend, it seems most organizations working cyber defense/cyber operations now know of each other and have frequent interactions.  There is more need for enhanced human to human collaboration and even enterprise grade social networking/social media around cyber defense as an aide to bringing the right understanding to situations.  A capability to watch here is Jive.

It is not only network defenders that need collaborative capabilities.  Developers of software and those that lead/manage/interact with them, including users, need ways to collaborate.  The ICEF was treated to an overview of a very positive capability to do that, the DISA led Forge.mil .  In my opinion, the positive disruptions from this activity have just begun, far more goodness will come from this project as more and more developers make use of it.  It is speeding development of new capabilities and is also laying the foundation of what may be the biggest positive improvement in the security and testing environment in years.

The security aspects of Cloud Computing were discussed in detail.  A general statement: If security is engineered into cloud computing capabilities, cloud concepts can significantly enhance the security of enterprises.  However, the reverse is also true.  If security is neglected in cloud constructs it can doom us all!

The ICEF was treated to an interaction with Tony Sager, one of the nation’s greatest thinkers in cyber security. Tony’s ability to express technological concepts in ways we can all understand is always appreciated.  A key conclusion from Tony: we are entering a phase in cyber defense that will require enhanced information management.   Note:  Tony provided us all with context on some very important concepts that all network defenders should be tracking, SCAP, NDV and FDCC.   My personal sense from the interaction was that most in the venue who work closely with security technology new of these constructs, however, it is getting to the point where all IT professionals and all leaders in an out of government need to know these capabilities, even if you are not a security professional.  So, a recommendation:  accept it as your civic duty to study up on SCAP, NVD and FDCC.

Other speakers, including Dr. Ted Kirscher, Chief Architect of the NSA Threat Operations Center, underscored again the need for new means to conduct highspeed assessment of the right data from defensive devices.  Ted, like everyone else who spoke, also ensured we all knew the collaborative nature of the work in front of us all.

For the many people I heard from this was a day well spent, a time to reflect on progress and to think through the next priorities to address.  There are some huge challenges that confront cyber defenders, but with new organizational constructs and new focus being placed on the mission these challenges are certainly achievable.  Some might still look impossible, but hey, like Walt Disney said, “It’s kind of fun to do the impossible.”

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