0. Net-Centric Enterprise Services (NCES)
Rex Cobb, CDR/USN
NCES Implementation & Experimentation
31 July 2007
UNCLASSIFIED

1. The First of Our ‘Managed Service’ Buys
Collaboration Status
Acquisition Goal: Provide collaboration solution to DoD enterprise via commercial managed service providers
First Button – IBM Lotus Sametime
NIPRNet / SIPRNet
Limited Operational Availability (LOA) Granted
to 100k Users
Second Button – Awarded to Carahsoft
Web Conferencing: Adobe Connect 6 Professional
IM/Chat: Jabber Extensible Comms Platform (XCP)
Early User Testing (EUT): November 2007
One year contract w/ two one year extensions
Second Button – capabilities similar to ‘Button One’, plus require XMPP IM Chat.
Carahsoft is a reseller who is offering Adobe Connect Professional for web
conferencing and Jabber XCP for IM/Chat. Carahsoft has partnered with a
number of companies for this effort - partners include SRA, who is currently
running the SIPR-Chat pilot using Jabber XCP.
Vendor Team
Carahsoft: Contractor and Solution Management
Adobe: Web Conferencing Provider
SAIC: Registration and Authentication Integrator
Jabber: Instant Messaging/Chat Provider
SRA: Instant Messaging/Chat Integrator
Products Provided
Web Conferencing: Adobe Connect 6 Professional
IM/Chat: Jabber Extensible Communications Platform (XCP)
Service Availability
Early User Testing: November 2007
Limited Operational Availability: April 2008
The First of Our ‘Managed Service’ Buys 1

2. Content Discovery & Delivery (CD&D) Status
Existing Content Staging Program (deployed worldwide) transitioning to CD&D
Discovery – Teaming with Intel Community Enterprise Services Office (ICES) Intelink as managed service solution
MOA signed 05 April 2007
Delivery – Teaming with USAF for GIG Content Delivery Service (GCDS); DISA Computing Services Division to be Managed Service Provider
Milestone B achieved
ICES – Intelligence Community Enterprise Services Office within Department of National Intelligence (DNI)
- Tool -- Intelink
GCDS – Tool -- Akamai

3. Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) Foundation Status
Spiral 1 Capabilities Available from DECCs San Antonio and Columbus
Services Integration Lab (SIL) available at SPAWAR Systems Center Charleston, SC
Structured and Unstructured Environments
Available on NIPRnet and SIPRNet
Milestone B achieved
Adopting Army’s Information Technology Enterprise Solutions - 2 Services (ITES-2S) contract for Messaging, Mediation, Service Discovery, and ESM Solutions
Source Selection Began in mid-July
ICES – Intelligence Community Enterprise Services Office within Department of National Intelligence (DNI)
- Tool -- Intelink
GCDN – Enterprise Content Delivery Network
- Tool -- Akamai

4. NCES Webinar Every Tuesday at 1300 EDT Using NCES E-CollabCenter
Web Conferencing – (U) NCES Webinar
Discuss:
Major Developments
Weekly Activity
Way Ahead
Your Requested Topics
Special SME Guests
Password: NCES#1

5. DKO Splash Page / Status
Adopt AKO and Evolve to Defense Knowledge Online (DKO) (
Enterprise Access to Service Portals
Drill down from
here for NCES info

6. DKO Key Facts/Dates
Jan 2007 – Joint Unsponsored Accounts on DKO (NIPRNET) and ability to create sites made available to all DOL users
15 Apr 2007 – Ability to create new sites/workspaces on DOL (NIPRNET) was shut down
2 Aug 2007 – Planned availability of Joint Accounts on AKO/DKO SIPRNET; specific migration dates for DOL-SIPRNET will follow (primarily impacts STRATCOM)
1 Oct 2007 – New user registration on DOL will be shut off
1 Oct 2007 – Ability to post new content to existing DOL sites/workspaces will be shut off
31 Dec 2007 – Target date for total shutdown of DOL and DOL-S
Migration of content to DKO is a site/workspace administrator responsibility, but we can help facilitate with training and possibly some tools – call us to assist with workspace migration!
FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY

7. DKO Account Registration
If starting with a DOL account,
DKO account should exist
Go to
FAQs available on DOL at
Challenges? Contact AKO/DKO Helpdesk at
Call locally
Call via DSN
If problems registering persist,
Contact IT1 Dawn Delves at
, DSN
Or contact Mr. John Nichols at
, DSN
DKO Registration for Pre-Authorized DoD Users !
More about DKO !
If starting without a DOL account before Oct 1,
Register with DOL NLT Sep 30, 2007 at or
If starting without a DOL account after Oct 1,
Request DKO account at

8. Content and Site/Workspace Migration
If migrating content from DOL to DKO,
Contact us!
Contact Ms. Ngoc (Cam) Pham at
, DSN
Or contact Mr. Ron Cannon at
, DSN
Migration Help available at
Training & Tutorials available at
Training Sessions available at
Admin Tips available at

9. Backups

10. Defense Knowledge Online (DKO) Vision
Develop an adaptive and agile Enterprise portal for the DOD community that utilizes current and future net-centric technology to enable a framework that empowers knowledge dominance, ensures synchronization of resources, and aggressively enables situational awareness and operational security in support of the Warfighter.
Current Players:
Army
DISA
Marine Corps
Joint Forces Command
Director of National Intelligence
Navy
Air Force
BTA/BMA
DOD CIO
The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) and the United States Army Chief Information Office (G6/CIO) are leading an effort to create a single portal for all of DoD called Defense Knowledge Online (DKO).

11. NCES User Access via Defense Knowledge Online (DKO)
Purpose
Provides a single point of user access to NCES
Key Facts
DKO is provided by Army Knowledge Online - same platform, same services - 1.9M users online now
AKO Director is DKO Director
Governed by DKO Board of Directors;
planned via DKO Joint Planning Group
Hosts NCES Developer's Page
Defense Online (DOL)/GESPortal)
migrates to DKO NLT 12/31/07
Primary Benefits
Users can create knowledge centers and post content to share information
Provides personalized, user-defined,
Web-based presentation that allows
for secure access to enterprise services
Organizations can save $ by eliminating/avoiding costs to establish/sustain own local portal and/or redundant capabilities
This is the starting point for the COI and their users
Defense Knowledge Online (DKO) (NIPR):
Joint Access avail Jan ’07
Up to 150,000 users initially
DKO (SIPR):
Initially adopted Horizontal Fusion portal
NCES Defense Online (NIPR):
Will migrate to DKO NLT Dec 07
40,000 users, 7,000 workspaces
NCES Defense Online (SIPR):
Working migration schedule with Army
1,700 users, 900 workspaces
Successfully supported several Time Sensitive Planning experiments/exercises during 2006
UNCLASSIFIED

12. AKO to DKO HISTORY
1999
AKO Portal established for General Officer communication
2001
SA/CSA directs all Army personnel obtain AKO accounts
2002
Army launches AKO-SIPRNet
2005
DISA adopts AKO for NCES; initiates AKO to DKO
Feb 2006
DKO Boards established for DKO Governance
Sept 2006
DKO Board of Directors approve AKO for the DKO baseline
Sept 2006
Joint Project Office established for DKO
Jan 2007
Introduction of AKO Joint Un-Sponsored Access (DKO IOC)
March 2007
Interim contract awarded for DKO
April 2007
Dr. Chu/GEN Smith launch JKDDC/JKO on DKO

13. AKO → DKO Evolution DKO FOC 4.5M Access to: Services Systems
Bright idea
Joint Project Office
Video
AKO Joint Access
DKO!!
FALL 2005
JAN 2007
Users: 1.8M
SEPT 2006
NOV 2006
DKO IOC 1.85M
Contract Award
Access to:
Services
Systems
Knowledge/
Content
DKO FOC 4.5M
MAR 2007
Army Knowledge Online – a knowledge management and service for the “citizen soldier” at home and abroad. Also facilitates family and retired Army information sharing needs.
Defense Knowledge Online – Adopt this large scale portal and grow capacity and capabilities to meet the needs of an enterprise portal. Initial objective is to provide enterprise wide visibility and access to the NCES capabilities, especially the customer facing services such as collaboration and content discovery.
Cost Model
Approved
Wireless
SOA Upgrade
Upgrade
MAR 2007
2008
MAR 2008
JUN 2007
Users: 2.5M

14. DKO Home

15. DOD IA Portal on DKO
Migrated legacy portal to DKO…extended existing capabilities to entire enterprise

16. JFCOM/JKDDC: JKO on DKO
“…deploy a global enhanced Joint Knowledge Development and Distribution Capability (JKDDC) with the launch of the Joint Knowledge Online (JKO) Portal.” – Dr. David Chu

17. FAQ’s and Online Help Forums
Getting Started
DOL/GES Portal Users have DKO Accounts
Requesting an Account
One click from AKO to DKO
DKO Links for Online Assistance
What is DKO?
AKO/DKO Account FAQs
NCES Developer Community
Newsletter
Training and Tutorials (Online and Hands-On)
Administrators page
DKO Migration and Information Page
NCES Collaboration Service(s)
Links to Other DoD Portals, News and Information Sources

18. Point of Contact View on Internet: https://www.dko.dod.mil/ Write:
Point of Contact:
Rex Cobb, CDR/USN (NE_D)

20. NCES Capability Rollout
Spiral 1
(02/02/07)
Spiral 1.1
(09/10/07)
Spiral 2.0
(02/06/08)
Content
Delivery
Akamai Pilot w/ USAF
(NIPR) and USCENTCOM & NGA (SIPR)
Increasing Akamai Edge Nodes (7 to 10) (SIPR)
Akamai Pilot migrates to GIG Content Delivery Service (GCDS)
(NIPR & SIPR) – AUG 07
Content
Discovery
Intelink publish Federated Search & Reference Implementation (SIPR)
Intelink deploys Federated Search IOC (NIPR) – JAN 08
Federated Search (NIPR & SIPR)
Collaboration
“1st Button” registered users from 6K to K (NIPR & SIPR)
Award “2nd Button contract w/ XMPP low bandwidth chat capability (NIPR & SIPR)
Deploy “2nd Button (NIPR & SIPR) – OCT 07
Accomplished
UNCLASSIFIED – FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY

21. NCES Capability Rollout
Spiral 1
(02/02/07)
Spiral 1.1
(09/10/07)
Spiral 2.0
(02/06/08)
Service
Discovery
Improve accessibility of NCES service registration via DKO (SIPR & NIPR)
Award SOAF Contract (NIPR & SIPR) – 1QFY08
Improve interface COI repositories (SIPR & NIPR)
Messaging for MDA COI (NIPR) & NGA distributing imagery and intelligence products (SIPR)
Improve Messaging performance by 67% (NIPR)
Award SOAF Contract (NIPR & SIPR) – 1QFY08
Enterprise
Service
Management
Initially Deploy user performance & monitoring of NCES (NIPR & SIPR)
Award SOAF Contract (NIPR & SIPR) – 1QFY08
Accomplished
UNCLASSIFIED – FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY

22. NCES Capability Rollout
Spiral 1
(02/02/07)
Spiral 1.1
(09/10/07)
Spiral 2.0
(02/06/08)
Deploy Robust Certificate Validation Service (RCVS) (NIPR)
Deliver Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC) Software (NIPR & SIPR)
Deploy RCVS (SIPR) – AUG 07
Service Security
Deploy Joint Enterprise Directory Service (JEDS) Attribute Retrieval Service (ARS)
(NIPR & SIPR) – SEP 07
People
Discovery
Deploy user-facing NCES capabilities accessible via DKO (SIPR & NIPR) – MAR 08
Defense Knowledge Online (DKO) delivered Joint un-sponsored access for 156K users (NIPR )
Prototype SOA compliance interface on DKO (SIPR) – SEP 07
Accomplished
UNCLASSIFIED – FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY

23. Capability Deployment Schedule
4QFY06
1QFY07
2QFY07
3QFY07
4QFY07
1QFY08
2QFY08
3QFY08
4QFY08
1QFY09
2QFY09
3QFY09
4QFY09
1QFY10
Activity
JUL
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SEP
OCT
NOV
DEC
JAN
FEB
MAR
APR
MAY
JUN
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SEP
OCT
NOV
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NOV
DEC
MS B (1)
MS B (2)
MS C
FDDR
End of Increment
Spiral 1
Spiral 1.1
Spiral 2
IOC
FOC
Milestones
TEST
TEST
TEST D T I O T E
Service Security
Deploy
Current Certificate Validation Service (CVS)
(PKI – NIPR)
Publish
Policy Enforcement Point & Policy Decision Point
Spec/Ref Imp
Deploy
CVS & Attribute Retrieval Service
(NIPR)
Deploy
CVS & Attribute Retrieval Service
(NIPR & SIPR)
Scale-Up to support additional Programs of Record & COIs
Service
Discovery
Replace Service Registry
as a Managed
Service
Migrate Existing Service Registry Users
& Increase Service Registry
Improve Current Service Registry
(NIPR & SIPR)
Implement Publication
Governance
Increase Usage of
Service Registry
Enterprise
Service
Management
Interface ESM
with
Programs of Record &
Service Level Management
Replace ESM
Capability
as a Managed
Service
(NIPR & SIPR)
Upgrade
Current ESM
Capability
(NIPR & SIPR)
Interface Current ESM
Capability
with
NetOps
Scale-Up to support additional Programs of Record & COIs
DOT&E Test Report Development Period

24. Capability Deployment Schedule
4QFY06
1QFY07
2QFY07
3QFY07
4QFY07
1QFY08
2QFY08
3QFY08
4QFY08
1QFY09
2QFY09
3QFY09
4QFY09
1QFY10
Activity
JUL
AUG
SEP
OCT
NOV
DEC
JAN
FEB
MAR
APR
MAY
JUN
JUL
AUG
SEP
OCT
NOV
DEC
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FEB
MAR
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MAY
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JUL
AUG
SEP
OCT
NOV
DEC
JAN
FEB
MAR
APR
MAY
JUN
JUL
AUG
SEP
OCT
NOV
DEC
MS B (1)
MS B (2)
MS C
FDDR
End of Increment
Spiral 1
Spiral 1.1
Spiral 2
IOC
FOC
Milestones
TEST
TEST
TEST D T I O T E
Migrate Existing Users & Integrate with
Programs of Record & COIs
Upgrade Current M2M
Messaging
Capability
Interface
Current M2M Messaging w/
Programs of Record
Replace
Messaging
as a Managed
Service
Scale-Up to support additional Programs of Record & COIs
Mediation
Interface
Current Mediation w/
Programs of Record
Replace Mediation
as a Managed
Service
Migrate Existing Users & Integrate with
Programs of Record & COIs
Sustain Current Mediation
Capability
Scale-Up to support additional Programs of Record & COIs
People
Discovery
Adopt & Pilot
Joint
Enterprise
Directory
Service
(NIPR & SIPR)
Deliver
Enterprise
White Pages
(NIPR & SIPR)
Deploy
JEDS IOC
(NIPR & SIPR)
Scale-Up Joint Enterprise Directory Service to support DoD Enterprise
DOT&E Test Report Development Period

25. Capability Deployment Schedule
4QFY06
1QFY07
2QFY07
3QFY07
4QFY07
1QFY08
2QFY08
3QFY08
4QFY08
1QFY09
2QFY09
3QFY09
4QFY09
1QFY10
Activity
JUL
AUG
SEP
OCT
NOV
DEC
JAN
FEB
MAR
APR
MAY
JUN
JUL
AUG
SEP
OCT
NOV
DEC
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FEB
MAR
APR
MAY
JUN
JUL
AUG
SEP
OCT
NOV
DEC
JAN
FEB
MAR
APR
MAY
JUN
JUL
AUG
SEP
OCT
NOV
DEC
MS B (1)
MS B (2)
MS C
FDDR
End of Increment
Spiral 1
Spiral 1.1
Spiral 2
IOC
FOC
Milestones
TEST
TEST
TEST D T I O T E
Content
Discovery
Sustain
Current Content
Discovery Capability and
Define
DoD/DNI Spec
Migrate Existing Users & Interface Content Discovery
with additional
Programs of Record & COIs
Adopt
DIA / DNI
Search
Capabilities
(e.g., Intelink)
Evaluate
Federated
Content Discovery
Capabilities
Scale-Up to support additional Programs of Record & COIs
Content
Delivery
Adopt
Air Force
Content Delivery
Capability
as a Managed
Service
Migrate Existing Users & Interface Content Delivery
with additional
Programs of Record & COIs
Partner
Current Content
Delivery Pilot
w/ Air Force
Evaluate
Integrated Content Delivery
Service
Scale-Up to support additional Programs of Record & COIs
Metadata
Registry
Implement
Mediation & Metadata
Run-time
Search
Capability
Evaluate
Metadata & Service
Registry
Run-time
Capabilities
Improve
Taxonomy
Navigation
Interface
With
COI
Repositories
Scale-Up to support additional Programs of Record & COIs
DOT&E Test Report Development Period

26. Capability Deployment Schedule
4QFY06
1QFY07
2QFY07
3QFY07
4QFY07
1QFY08
2QFY08
3QFY08
4QFY08
1QFY09
2QFY09
3QFY09
4QFY09
1QFY10
Activity
JUL
AUG
SEP
OCT
NOV
DEC
JAN
FEB
MAR
APR
MAY
JUN
JUL
AUG
SEP
OCT
NOV
DEC
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FEB
MAR
APR
MAY
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AUG
SEP
OCT
NOV
DEC
JAN
FEB
MAR
APR
MAY
JUN
JUL
AUG
SEP
OCT
NOV
DEC
MS B (1)
MS B (2)
MS C
FDDR
End of Increment
Spiral 1
Spiral 1.1
Spiral 2
IOC
FOC
Milestones
TEST
TEST
TEST D T I O T E
Adopt
Army for User Access via Defense
Knowledge
On-Line (DKO) and
Deploy
DKO-S
Deliver Un-Sponsored
Joint User
Access
&
Access Enterprise
Collaboration
via DKO
DKO
Army Delivers SOA Compliant
DKO
Access
web services
via DKO
Scale-Up to support additional Services’ DKO Capabilities & User
Population
User Access
Deploy
Enterprise
Collaboration
(1st Button)
on SIPR & Coalition,
(2nd Button) on NIPR, and
Sunset
DCTS
Collaboration
Deploy
Enterprise
Collaboration
(1st Button)
on NIPR
Fully Deploy Enterprise
Collaboration
(2nd Button)
on SIPR
Evaluate
Collaboration Service access via
DKO
Scale-Up to support additional User
Population
DOT&E Test Report Development Period