1. NATO NNEC Core Enterprise Services
December 2009
J. Busch, CAT 7, NC3A
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2. NNEC: Background - Aims
November 2002, NATO C3 Board (NC3B) recognized need to adapt concepts such as the U.S. NCW and U.K. NEC to the NATO context
NATO transformational concept called NATO Network Enabled Capability (NNEC)
Eighteen month, multi-nationally funded, NNEC Feasibility Study, commissioned in January 2004
Develop a Strategy and Roadmap for realization of a Networking and Information Infrastructure (NII)
To ‘enable’ required C2ISR capabilities and to support the broader needs of the Alliance.
Involves networking of national funded, NATO common funded and multi-national funded capabilities
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3. This is the framework NNEC Capability Areas model, which is being used as the basis for planning NNEC elements. It identifies 6 ‘categories’ of services, as shown below.
NNEC Capability Areas
Information Assurance
Users & Missions
Service Management Control
Community of Interest
Information Integration
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4. The four ‘enabling’ pillars of Comms, IIS, IA and SM&C comprise what the NNEC Feasibility Study called the Networking and Information Infrastructure (NII)
Scope of the NII
Information Assurance
Users & Missions
Service Management Control
Community of Interest
Information Integration
Communications 4
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5. Today’s Focus: IIS
Information and Integration Services (IIS) is the focus of CAT7, as it includes “Core Enterprise Services” and other IS-related enabling (core) technology
Information Assurance
Users & Missions
Service Management Control
Community of Interest
Information Integration
Communications 5
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6. Information and Integration Services
IIS can be further decomposed into two main sub-categories: Core Enterprise Services and Infrastructure Services
Information and Integration Services
Core Enterprise Services
Infrastructure Services
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7. Information and Integration Services
The “Core Enterprise Services” are the foundational Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) elements which underpin the NNEC User/Functional/COI services: service discovery, SOA messaging, composition (orchestration), and so on. They are the NATO equivalent of the U.S. Net Centric Enterprise Services.
Information and Integration Services
Core Enterprise Services
Infrastructure Services
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8. Information and Integration Services
Core Enterprise Services
Infrastructure Services
Core infrastructure also includes Bi-SC optimisation techniques, server and desktop operating systems, NU-NR-NS transition and Future Desktops.
The “Infrastructure Services” are the other “core services” in the IT sense: processing and storage grids, virtualization, print services, etc.
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9. The Core Enterprise Services Working Group (CESWG) was set up as a task group in 2007 under the NC3B ISSC (aka SC/5) to examine the NATO CES “today” – starting from the NNEC FS definitions – and come up with a new collection (and definitions) appropriate for the current NNEC thought processes.
Today’s NNEC Core Enterprise Services: …CES Working Group (SC/5) Perspective
Information Assurance
Users & Missions
Service Management Control
Community of Interest
Information Integration
Based on the NNEC Feasibility Study.
Communications

10. Service Enabled Infrastructure
This “Service Enabled Infrastructure” is part of what is provided by the NII. This aspect is collectively called the “Core Enterprise Services”, and it’s what facilitates the enterprise SOA environment.
Implementing SOA
Request/Invoke
Automated search of data services using metadata. Pulls data of interest. Based on producer registered format and definitions, translates into needed structure.
Service Consumer
Data and applications available for use accessible via services. Metadata added to services based on producer’s format.
Service Producer
Describes content using metadata
Posts metadata in catalogs for discovery
Exposes data and applications as services
Searches metadata catalogs to find data services
Analyzes metadata search results found
Pulls selected data based on metadata understanding
Service Enabled Infrastructure
Messaging
Services
Monitoring
Registry
Security
Transformation
Data
Publish
Discover

11. Core Enterprise Services provide…
…fundamental support to service-based frameworks both in the form of infrastructure and enabler services
…a single set of reusable technical, generic (independent of business processes) enabling or foundation “minimum required” services
…an environment for “higher level” services (COI, Common COI, User and Operational) to be integrated, distributed, and accessed across organizational, geographical, and technical platform boundaries
…facilitated interoperability by ensuring a common core baseline – ideally in conjunction with Nations to provide a federated CES solution
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The CES Framework
Published by the NC3B SC/5 CESWG in Spring 2009
Approved by NC3B June 2009
Defines what CES are, and how they fit into NNEC
Describes the NNEC Core Enterprise Services
The “what” of CES
Coordination with
CESWG (NC3B SC/5) and NC3A CAT 7
NOSWG (NC3B SC/1) via NC3A CAT 1
DMSWG and XMLSWG (NC3B SC/5)
SMI ADWG (NC3B SC/4)
Future documents will describe the “how”
Service Description Framework
IIS RA
Via coordination with other experts
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13. NNEC Core Enterprise Services: Consolidating the Views

14. NNEC Core Enterprise Services
The CES Framework – published in 2009 by SC/5 and approved by the NC3B – decomposed the Core Enterprise Services (CES) into 12+2 services. These were initially defined in the NNEC Feasibility Study (2005) but have been significantly refined since then.
NNEC Core Enterprise Services
COI-Specific Services
Information Assurance
SM&C
Common COI Services
Information and Integration Services (Core Enterprise Services)
Discovery
Repository
Mediation
Service Discovery Services
Enterprise Directory Services
Composition Services
Information Discovery Services
Metadata Registry Services
Translation Services
Information Assurance Services
Service Management Services
Infrastructure
Interaction
Application Services
Messaging Services
Transaction Services
Storage Services
Publish/ Subscribe Services
Collaboration Services
Network/Transport Services

15. CES Contributing to NNEC Maturity
NNEC Maturity Levels
Core Enterprise Services
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16. NNEC Core Enterprise Services
The expectation is that the Core Enterprise Services will be delivered in iterations, or Spirals. The initial implementation – what we have nicknamed Spiral 0 – is basic SOA functionality provided by e.g. a lightweight Enterprise Service Bus (ESB).
On behalf of ACT, NC3A are working to identify a useful Spiral 0 capability by end 2009/early (Simultaneously, Spiral 0 may be deployed to ISAF through a C2 Interoperability Bus CUR.)
NNEC Core Enterprise Services
COI-Specific Services
Information Assurance
SM&C
Common COI Services
Information and Integration Services (Core Enterprise Services)
Translation Services
Service Management Services
Messaging Services
Publish/ Subscribe Services
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Network/Transport Services

17. NNEC Core Enterprise Services
Spiral 1 will be the first iteration of the CES acquired through the formal NATO acquisition process (NSIP) – possibly via CP150. Spiral 1 will build upon Spiral 0, and will focus on a subset of the full roster of CES providing a Baseline SOA Infrastructure.
NNEC Core Enterprise Services
COI-Specific Services
Information Assurance
SM&C
Common COI Services
Information and Integration Services (Core Enterprise Services)
Service Discovery Services
Enterprise Directory Services
Metadata Registry Services
Translation Services
Information Assurance Services
Service Management Services
Messaging Services
Transaction Services
Publish/ Subscribe Services
Collaboration Services
Network/Transport Services

18. NNEC Core Enterprise Services
Spiral 2 will include the full set of defined CES, along with incremental improvements to the Spiral 1 iteration, providing the full coherent SOA infrastructure.
NNEC Core Enterprise Services
COI-Specific Services
Information Assurance
SM&C
Common COI Services
Information and Integration Services (Core Enterprise Services)
Service Discovery Services
Enterprise Directory Services
Composition Services
Information Discovery Services
Metadata Registry Services
Translation Services
Information Assurance Services
Service Management Services
Application Services
Messaging Services
Transaction Services
Storage Services
Publish/ Subscribe Services
Collaboration Services
Network/Transport Services

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NNEC CES Next Steps
Development of Detailed Specifications (“how”, not just “what”)
NNEC SOA Implementation Plan
IIS Reference Architecture
CESWG Service Description Framework
Validation with Nations
Shared Specification
Cross-domain interoperability testing
ISAF CUR CIS 355?
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CONTACTING NC3A
NC3A Brussels
Visiting address:
Bâtiment Z Avenue du Bourget 140 B-1110 Brussels Telephone +32 (0) Fax +32 (0)
Postal address: NATO C3 Agency Boulevard Leopold III B-1110 Brussels - Belgium
NC3A The Hague
Oude Waalsdorperweg AK The Hague Telephone +31 (0) Fax +31 (0)
Postal address: NATO C3 Agency P.O. Box CD The Hague The Netherlands
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21. Information and Integration Services Level 3 Detail
Core Enterprise Services
Infrastructure services
Discovery services
Repository services
Interaction services
Mediation services
Physical Resource services
Data Management services
Application services (CESF)
User Interaction services
Information
Discovery
services
Enterprise
Directory
services
Collaboration
Services
Composition
Services
Storage
Services
(CESF) DB
Management
services
Application
Provisioning
services
User
Input
services
Service
Discovery
services
Metadata
Registry
services
Messaging
services
Translation
Services
Infrastructure
Compatibility
services
Document
Management
services
Application
Environment
services
User
Presentation
services
Publish and
Subscribe
services
Content
Management
services
Application
Integration
services
User
Assistance
services
Transaction
services
File
Sharing
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