0. NCES Capabilities Overview
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NCES Capabilities Overview
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1. Agenda NCES Overview NCES Production Capabilities
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Agenda
NCES Overview
NCES Production Capabilities
User Access: Defense Knowledge Online (DKO)
Collaboration
Metadata Registry (MDR)
Federated Search
Enterprise Catalog
Machine-to-Machine Messaging
Service Discovery
Service Security
Steps to use NCES Capabilities
NCES Lessons Learned
Additional NCES References

2. NCES Overview
NCES is an enabler for information sharing within the DoD as well as with federal, allied, coalition and multinational partners
NCES will allow users and information systems to:
Find and access relevant information;
Expose the information they produce for others to discover;
Collaborate in a more effective manner;
Distribute data to forward deployed areas;
Increase performance and reliability of data access, and;
Utilize the enterprise infrastructure for evolving DoD systems to a Service-Oriented Architecture.
NCES is the foundation for knowledge sharing and future knowledge creation

3. NCES Overview Macro Perspective
NCES Capabilities
Metadata
Registry
Content
Delivery
ServiceSecurity
Service Oriented
Architecture Foundation
Collaboration
People
Discovery
Service
Discovery
Enterprise
Service
Management
Mediation
Content
Discovery
User Access via DKO
(SIPR & NIPR)
NCES Users
Global Combat Support System
Distributed Common Ground System
Net-Enabled Command Capability
Defense Technical Information Center
Theater Battle Management Core System
Global Command & Control System
Integrated Strategic Planning & Analysis Network
National Geospatial-Intelligence Services
Communities of Interest
NCES Early Capabilities Baseline Users
NCES is delivering capabilities to enable
the Department’s net-centric information sharing transformation!

4. and reuse capabilities regardless of platform; increased flexibility
Enterprise Services
Discussed Today
ServiceSecurity
Service
Discovery
Ability to operate
in a secure
environment
Confidence that
enterprise services
are available and
reliable
Enterprise
Service
Management
Real-time update and
alert notification as
information changes
Ability to develop
and reuse capabilities
regardless of platform;
increased flexibility
and agility
Exchange data
with unanticipated
users in
unanticipated
formats
Mediation
Locate people and
network resources
People
Discovery
NCES
This the suite of NCES services available to COI
Not all services will be used by each COI
To date, the most used services are: (1) DoD Metadata Registry (2) Service Discovery (3) Content Discovery
I moved the detailed slides of each service to the backup section. Just talk to some of the services and inform the users of the backups
Interoperability of
data with
shared semantics
Metadata
Registry
Collaboration
Content
Discovery
Content
Delivery
Web-based
source for
information on
NCES and access
to its services
Communicate
in real-time using
voice, text, and
video sessions
Access to shared/
stored data;
improved shared
awareness
Improved
Quality of Service

5. Defense Knowledge Online (DKO) https://www.dko.dod.mil
Purpose
Provide a single point of access to DoD Services
Key Facts
DKO is provided by Army Knowledge Online - same platform, same services - 1.9M users online now
NCES Developer's Page on DKO provides initial orientation for early adopters
Legacy NCES Portal (Defense Online (DOL)/GESPortal) to shut down NLT 12/31/07
Joint Accounts on DKO available for all DOL/GES Portal users now (sign up TODAY!)
CAC or User ID/Password for logon
Support for software-based PKI certificates.
Will be expanded to support 2.5M (NIPR) and 300K (SIPR) users by March 2008
Primary Benefits
All 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
Allows users to efficiently and securely collaborate and share information
Organizations can save $ by eliminating/avoiding costs to establish/sustain own local portal
Primary Audience
COIs, DoD Capability developers, End users 5

6. Defense Knowledge Online (DKO) https://www.dko.dod.mil
How to get started 6

7. Defense Knowledge Online (DKO) Demonstration

8. Collaboration Purpose Key Facts Primary Benefits Primary Audience
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Collaboration
Purpose
Provide Web Conferencing, IM, Chat, file-sharing, and application-sharing capabilities
Key Facts
Two “Buttons”
IBM Sametime (
Currently operational on NIPRNet and SIPRNet
Required Static Destination Ports:
Port 80 TCP – http web traffic
Port 443 TCP – https encrypted web traffic
Adobe Connect/Jabber IM/Chat (
Available for testing on NIPRNet and SIPRNet
Requires Flash Player, Ports 443 and 5222
Primary Benefits
Enables collaboration between DOD, homeland defense, intelligence, and coalition forces
Enables migration from costly and complex domain-specific collaboration capabilities to an enterprise provided service
Improves warfighter and employee productivity by facilitating seamless and secure communications across the enterprise
Primary Audience
COIs, End users 8

9. Collaboration – Button 1 9

10. Collaboration – Button 2 https://www.dco.dod.mil10

11. Button 2 Collaboration
Demonstration

12. DoD Metadata Registry (MDR) https://metadata.dod.mil
Purpose
Provide an on-line repository which enables developers to reuse, understand, integrate with, and share existing data assets (metadata)
Targeting web services, databases, and vocabularies
Provides a portal for developer access and web services for machine-to-machine access
Key Facts
Over 8,000 users and 180,000 assets registered
Over 900 Programs of Record supported
Serving the DoD, DHS, IC, NASA and NATO
Hosted on NIPR, SIPR, and JWICS
User driven via DoD Metadata Working Group and Feedback links on the portal
Implements the ebXML standard for Metadata Registries
Single Sign-On through DKO
Primary Benefits
Enables reuse and governance of data assets
Foundation for other services; e.g. mediation
Allows the COI data assets to exist after the COI disbands
Primary Audience
COIs, DoD Capability developers
The DoD Metadata Registry is the Department’s electronic marketplace for structural metadata components. It provides enterprise-wide visibility and access for developers, configuration controllers and program overseers to register, use, subscribe, and manage structural metadata. The purpose of the Registry is not to publish broadly applicable standards, but to provide visibility into the Department’s ongoing structural metadata investment, and to encourage reuse of existing metadata components that are both developmental and operational. While each registered component is identified with its status and distinguished by a namespace, the Registry’s purpose is to allow developers to pull whatever they need; not to try and mandate usage of any particular metadata collection. The benefits to the developer, reductions in cost, time savings and interoperability have proven to be sufficient incentive. The public may access a portion of the DoD Metadata Registry via the Internet. To examine metadata artifacts, users must be sponsored by a government employee. The contents of the Metadata Registry are organized by governance namespaces within various metadata type “galleries.” Communities of Interest (COIs) should align with and leverage collections within one or more namespaces that intersect their concerns.
Top Secret instance is run in conjunction with the Intelligence Community. 12

13. DoD Metadata Registry (MDR) https://metadata.dod.mil
new
The DoD Metadata Registry is the Department’s electronic marketplace for structural metadata components. It provides enterprise-wide visibility and access for developers, configuration controllers and program overseers to register, use, subscribe, and manage structural metadata. The purpose of the Registry is not to publish broadly applicable standards, but to provide visibility into the Department’s ongoing structural metadata investment, and to encourage reuse of existing metadata components that are both developmental and operational. While each registered component is identified with its status and distinguished by a namespace, the Registry’s purpose is to allow developers to pull whatever they need; not to try and mandate usage of any particular metadata collection. The benefits to the developer, reductions in cost, time savings and interoperability have proven to be sufficient incentive. The public may access a portion of the DoD Metadata Registry via the Internet. To examine metadata artifacts, users must be sponsored by a government employee. The contents of the Metadata Registry are organized by governance namespaces within various metadata type “galleries.” Communities of Interest (COIs) should align with and leverage collections within one or more namespaces that intersect their concerns.
Top Secret instance is run in conjunction with the Intelligence Community.
Mission Area List
Domain List
COI List
COI Links 13

14. DoD Metadata Registry (MDR)
Demonstration

15. DoD Discovery Metadata Specification (DDMS) https://metadata. dod
Purpose
Provides a uniform set of metadata to promote visibility of data assets across the Department of Defense.
Key Facts
Called out in DoDD , “Data Sharing in a Net-Centric Department of Defense”
Endorsed by E.O , “Further Strengthening The Sharing Of Terrorism Information To Protect Americans”
Uses IC Information Security Markings (IC-ISM) for security markings on elements that may contain sensitive data.
Used by Federated Search, Enterprise Catalog, DoD Metadata Registry, …
Employed by numerous COIs to facilitate discovery of data assets across the DoD enterprise
Adopted both within and outside of the DoD, including NATO, Canadian Dept. of Nat’l Defense, and DHS
Extensibility supports specialized discovery requirements
Primary Benefits
Common vocabulary for discovery data
Managed through the DoD Metadata Working Group
Leverages well established standards (Dublin Core, GML, ISO 8601, …)
Primary Audience
COIs, DoD Capability Developers, DoD Data Providers

16. DoD Discovery Metadata Specification (DDMS) https://metadata. dod
The DoD Discovery Metadata Specification (DDMS) defines discovery metadata elements for resources posted to community and organizational shared spaces.
"Discovery" is the ability to locate data assets through a consistent and flexible search. Visibility, accessibility, and understandability are the high priority goals of the DoD Net-Centric Data Strategy. Of these goals, visibility and discovery are intimately linked. Visibility of a resource is, in a practical sense, useless, if the resource is not easily discoverable. With the express purpose of supporting the visibility goal of the DoD Net-Centric Data Strategy, the DDMS specifies a set of information fields that are to be used to describe any data or service asset, i.e., resource, that is to be made discoverable to the Enterprise, and it serves as a reference for developers, architects, and engineers by laying a foundation for Discovery Services. The DDMS will be employed consistently across the Department's disciplines, domains and data formats. This document describes the DDMS elements and their logical groupings. It does not provide an interchange specification or substantive implementation guidance. The DDMS elements as specified in this document, however, should provide a basis for organizations to begin planning, transitioning, and implementing metadata tagging initiatives that support the Department's goal of increased data visibility and Enterprise Discovery. The current version of the DoD Discovery Metadata Specification and the current XML implementation can be downloaded via the link below. Previous versions of the DDMS and their XML implementations are also available under "Prior Releases.".

17. Federated Search https://search.nces.dod.mil/mse
Purpose
Provides a capability which allows users to discover information from disparate data sources with one query
Key Facts
Returns results from the DoD and IC instances of Google appliances, COIs, and the Enterprise Catalog
Exposes all types of information via DDMS; not limited to document-based content (DDMS v1.0/Fed Search v1.3)
Provides a translation layer from legacy, non-DDMS based search technologies
Work in progress for converged DNI and NCES spec
Content Discovery SDK Package (refer to NCES Users Guide on DKO) provides overview to integrate with the Fed Search service
Federated Search portlet enables integration of search with any user portal
Integrates with the NCES Security services, NCES Service Registry, and NCES Messaging
Allows local systems to determine access control for search results
Primary Benefits
One logged-in, can retrieve results from multiple data sources
Can allow users to “discover” items in their native portal
Enables Web services to be linked between multiple implementations (Search Aggregation)
Supports searching both structured and unstructured data
Primary Audience
COIs, DoD Capability developers, End users
The SDK package contains documentation about the “NCES Service” and a
set of sample applications demonstrating its functionality. The documentation includes an
overview of the service, a developer’s guide that discusses technical details (such as
the service specifications used), and a guide to the “NCES Service” SDK that provides details on the
sample applications. The sample applications, which exercise the functionality of the “NCES
Service”, are already integrated with NCES service security and only require a valid certificate
and configuration of the proper roles for the certificate’s domain name. 17

18. Federated Search https://search.nces.dod.mil/mse18

19. Enterprise Catalog https://search.nces.dod.mil/catalog
Purpose
Increase visibility for user content
Targeting documents and web sites
Provide an index for information sources without cataloging capabilities
Provides publish/remove operations to populate a data source with metadata
Key Facts
Content Discovery SDK Package (refer to NCES Users Guide on DKO) provides overview to integrate with the Enterprise Catalog service
New UI available November 2007
Leveraged by early adopters
TBMCS, C2 SSA, MDA
Primary Benefits
Expand the quantity and quality of information accessible to the enterprise.
Reduce latency, increase reliability, and optimize network traffic to provide efficient delivery of information.
Use standard, vendor-neutral specifications to leverage existing Community of Interest (COI) information repositories including Web servers, file servers, databases, indexes, content management systems, and other applications
Primary Audience
COIs, DoD Capability developers, End users 19

20. Enterprise Catalog https://search.nces.dod.mil/catalog20

21. Machine-to-Machine Messaging
Purpose
Promotes decoupling of information among producers and consumers
Asynchronous point-to-multi-point event notification using multiple messaging models (Publish/Subscribe/queuing/peer-to-peer)
Alerts, track updates, etc.
Producers do not have to keep track of consumers
Producers and consumers do not have to be continuously connected to network
Key Facts
Accessible through a web-based interface on the DKO portal
Messages searchable through NCES Federated Search
Primary Benefits
Guaranteed Messaging allows subscribers to receive queued messages after reconnecting to the network
Provides Client Configurable QoS parameters
Guaranteed messaging
Priority, time-to-live, persistence, etc.
Supports Distributed, Federated GIG
Multiple message brokers/administrative domains
Application integration
Supporting Mediation/Orchestration
Primary Audience
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22. Service Discovery https://service.nces.dod.mil/wasp/uddi/bsc/web
Purpose
Provides a services directory that enables users to publish and discover shared applications and services.
Key Facts
Currently operational on NIPRNet and SIPRNet
Interacts with Service Security to streamline access
Primary Benefits
Promotes capability reuse
Promotes service composition and orchestration
Establishes basic service governance capabilities
Primary Audience
COI, DoD Capability developers
Gets the right information to the right people at the right time.
Promotes reuse - Service developers can locate information entities in a service registry and use them to reduce time and effort.
Promotes unified understanding of service metadata - Metadata for published services are accessible from centralized registries, promoting interoperability across the enterprise.
Enables collaborative development - Allows use of discoverable services without changing software by enabling true loose coupling among services.
Promotes service virtualization - Discovers and rediscovers services whenever you need them, regardless of their location.
Promotes service composition and orchestration - Assembles multiple Web Services to form a business process or a high-level business function.
Provides governance of the service registry - Verifies entities published into the registry conform to existing business rules, ensuring consistency across the enterprise.

23. NCES Service Registry https://service.nces.dod.mil/wasp/uddi/bsc/web

24. Service Security https://www.us.army.mil/suite/doc/9572662?inline=true
Purpose
Protects WEB services from unauthorized use
Key Facts
Currently operational on NIPRNet and SIPRNet
Uses open standards to define the rules that secure and protect GIG services.
Provides multi-attribute authorization and access control
Provides a flexible architecture that PORs and COIs can employ within their enclaves
Primary Benefits
Ensure that shared information is only accessed by appropriate personnel, services and computers
Primary Audience
COIs, DoD Capability developers
Screenshots of the ABAC Policy Console and CTK

25. Notional NCES Security Architecture
NCES Security Services
Attribute Service
Robust
Certificate Validation Service
Portal
Request / Response
Provider
"In the service-oriented-architecture, some services are invoked in the background every time a customer uses an SOA application or business process.
The Service Discovery service provides a kind of SOA yellow pages. Service developers and providers register each service and can provide links to information about the service as a way of advertising their service to any person or other service that might be interested. Consumers can discover services and can learn things about how well a service has been working.
The Service Security service uses facilitates the safe use of all services in the GiG by helping facilitate authentication and authorization for people and other services. The security service can use other services when doing this, including identity management services and white pages services.
The Service Management service provides a way to monitor performance, and to control, optimize, and integrate services within the GiG. It measures whether a particular service is living up to its agreed-upon level of service, it watches for errors in the service and helps to resolve these, and it audits use of the service. Some of this data is written into the Service Registry yellow pages so that consumers and other stakeholders (possibly people involved in GiG governance) can see how a service is performing.
The Service Messaging service provides a reliable way for services to interact with each other and to interact with the service consumer. It routes messages to the appropriate service and the appropriate instance of a service (since there may be several instances of a particular service for reliability and failover) and helps to orchestrate multiple services into a composed service.
Request / Response
Service
Consumer Agent 25

26. People Discovery and Attribute Service
Provides the capability to identify and find White Pages (e.g. locator) information on people by leveraging the Joint Enterprise Directory Service (JEDS)
Capability targeted to provide access to locator information contained in Defense Eligibility and Entitlement Reporting System (DEERS), the Global Directory Service (GDS), the four Service directories and other identity repositories about personnel and about all DOD CAC Card holders.
Access to JEDS restricted to authorized personnel and services
JEDS provides both a White Pages website and a Web Service Interface
White Pages via HTTPS
Application interface via LDAPS
Web Services interface via SOAP over HTTPS
Web Service interface uses SAML Attribute Query/Response protocol AS
NCES Security Services

27. White Pages Attributes Attribute Service Attributes
JEDS Implementation
GDS
DEERS
Army
EDS
Attributes
JPAS
Attributes
Attributes
JEDS
Attributes
DISANET
Air Force
Directory Services
(AFDS)
Attributes
Attributes
Pentagon PAED
Attributes
Attributes
NMCI (Navy/MC)
White Pages
Others
SAML/SOAP HTTPS
White Pages Attributes }
HTTPS, LDAPS
Attribute Service Attributes }
Last Name, First Name, Middle Initial, Generational Qualifier,
Rank/Title, DoD Component,
DoD Sub-Component, EDI-PI, Position, Mail, Citizenship, Personnel Type, Display PKI
DN, Clearance/Controls
Other UID, SIPRnet , SIPRnet Display Name, Office Phone, Secure Office Phone, Mobile Phone, Secure Mobile Phone, Fax, Secure Fax, IP Phone, Secure IP Phone, DSN Phone, DRSN Phone, User Certificate, Street Address, Mail Stop, Room Number, City, State, Country, Postal Code, Source DN, Publish Flag
Last Name, First Name, Middle Initial, Generational Qualifier,
Rank/Title, DoD Component,
DoD Sub-Component, EDI-PI, Position, Mail, Citizenship, Personnel Type, Display PKI
DN, Clearance/Controls
13 per AD Naming Convention } }
2 per the ICAS User Attribute Definitions }
additional attributes per the JEDS Roadmap

28. Joint Enterprise Directory Services https://jeds.gds.disa.mil/

29. NCES Techguide http://metadata.dod.mil/mdr/ns/ces/techguide/
Purpose
Help promote understanding of the DoD Net-Centric Data Strategy as well as more effective use of NCES capabilities.
Key Facts
Helps provide background, goals and step-by-step procedures to become Data Strategy compliant
Provides relevant use case scenarios often encountered throughout the DoD
Content is provided in a logical structure for each role to quickly decipher and understand
Linked to through disa.mil/nces and the Developers Community on DKO
Primary Benefits
Enable a program to achieve DoD Data Strategy Compliance via NCES Capabilities
Primary Audience
Program Managers, Architects and Developers

30. NCES Techguide http://metadata.dod.mil/mdr/ns/ces/techguide/

31. Using NCES Capabilities COI Data Exchange Development Perspective
Collaboration
Capability for collaborating among COI Members
Chat sessions
Member Forums
Virtual conferencing, etc….
Defense Knowledge Online (DKO)
Capability for creating sites for posting COI content
Meeting minutes
Status reports
Collaborative work-products,….
DoD Metadata Registry
Capability for making structural and semantic assets visible, accessible, and understandable and locating existing assets
Data exchange formats (XML Schemas)
Taxonomies/Ontologies (OWL Documents)
Assertion of relationships between concepts and assets

32. Using NCES Capabilities COI Pilot Development Perspective
Service Security
Capability for protecting Web services produced by COI Pilot developers
Ensure access to services is authentic and authorized
Machine-to-Machine Messaging
Capability for publishing data for the purposes of machine consumption
Guaranteed messaging for high volume and rapidly changing data
Federated Search & Enterprise Catalog
Capability for advertising and searching for data assets
DDMS entries describing data assets such as Web pages and static content,…
Precision search capabilities for locating relevant data assets.
DoD Metadata Registry
Capability for making service interface specifications visible and accessible
Web service interface specifications (WSDL files)
Service Registry
Capability for making data access points visible
Access points for service offerings
References to interface descriptions
Service ownership information
Speaker Note: The pilot developers can also leverage DKO and Collaboration so the speaker should clarify that these capabilities are in addition to those that were on the previous slide.

33. Using the NCES Capabilities Getting Started / Approaches for Data Exposure
Acquire PKI and/or ECA certificates and NCES accounts
Get the NCES User’s Guide
Register on DKO
Request access to the NCES Developer’s Community
OPTION 1
Expose an existing Web Server by opening it up to be crawled by the Google search engine. The enterprise Google search engine is a data provider to the Federated Search.
Your Data
Asset
OPTION 2
Implement the Federated Search Interface and register it with the NCES Service Registry.
NCES Service
Registry
Federated
Search
Service
Register endpoint
Your Data
Asset

34. Using the NCES Capabilities Getting Started / Approaches for Data Exposure
OPTION 3
Implement a custom Web service.
- Register the endpoint in the NCES Service Registry.
- Register the WSDL and XML Schemas in the MDR.
NCES Service
Registry
XML Schema
DDMS
WSDL
Register endpoint
Custom Web
Service
Your Data
Asset
DoD
Metadata
Registry
Register
Pointer to
WSDL file
Register
Enterprise
Catalog

35. Integration with NCES Services for COI Case Studies
NCES Core Enterprise Services
Community of Interest
MDR
Enterprise Catalog
Federated Search
Security
Messaging
Service
Registry
C2 SSA
MDA
Strike
C2 Global Data Pilot
Pull from STRATCOM lessons learned

36. NCES Lessons Learned Posted to Developers Community on DKO
Command and Control Space Situational Awareness (C2 SSA) COI
Maritime Domain Awareness Data Sharing COI
STRATCOM Global C2 Data Pilot
Please post additional lessons learned as they are identified

37. Additional NCES References
NCES Public Site
NCES Users Guide
NCES Developers Community (hosted on DKO)
NCES Techguide

38. NCES URLs Defense Knowledge Online Collaboration DoD Metadata Registry
Collaboration
E-CollabCenter:
Defense Connect Online:
DoD Metadata Registry
DoD Discovery Metadata Specification
Federated Search
Enterprise Catalog
Service Discovery
Joint Enterprise Directory Service

39. NCES High-Level Schedule
FY07
DKO-N Joint user access – Jan
Metadata Registry V6.0 – Feb
Service Discovery Update – Feb
Service Security Update – Feb
Milestone B - Mar
Content Discovery Centralized Search (SIPR) – Apr
Release SOAF RFP - May
Deploy ESM – May
Converged DoD/DNI Federated Search Specification - Jun
Award Collaboration Button 2- Jun
M2M Messaging Upgrade – Aug
Deploy People Discovery & Attribute Service (SIPR) – Sep
Federated Search (SIPR) – Sep
FY08
Deploy People Discovery & Attribute Service (NIPR) - Nov
Award SOAF - Nov
Federated Search (NIPR) - Dec
Milestone C - Mar
FY06
Deploy DKO-S – Jun
Deploy Collaboration Button 1 NIPR - Aug
FY09
Initial Operational Capability - Jan
Scale Capabilities - Jan
Transition Users/Sustain Capabilities - Jan

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41. Federated Search Use Case
COI, POR, C/S/A Data Sources populated from applications, databases, web content, etc.
Capabilities:
Interfaces:
Enterprise Services – DECC Columbus
Community of Interest
IC Community
Program of Record EC
Enterprise Catalog FS DS FS DS FS DS
External Applications, Services, and Data Sources FS DS FS
Federated Search FS DS FS DS FS DS
For immediate discoverability users may post metadata to the Enterprise Catalog
Query is federated and results returned.
Users FS DS
Data Source FS EC
NCES Fed Search Aggregator
Enterprise Web Content is crawled and indexed
NCES Security Service
NCES Service Discovery
NCES Enterprise Catalog
User Authorized by NCES Security Services
Fed Search Aggregator discovers data sources from Service Discovery
Aggregated results returned
User Submits Search Query
DECC Columbus & San Antonio DS
(Web Enabled) DS
(Web Enabled)
User Logs into DOL Portal, DKO, or COI Application
Results viewed by user
NCES Enterprise Services Management
Federated Search enables information sharing within and between COIs and PORs

42. Messaging Use Case “Weather” Channels A - 20854 B – 20374 C – 22209
D – 75201
E – 60601
F – 95101
Interfaces:
POR Database 1
POR Database 2
POR Database 3 M
Messaging Interface
NCES Security Service
Update Published A B C D E F
DECC Columbus & San Antonio M
NCES Messaging Service
Receives update to subscribed Channel
User Subscribes to Channel
User Authorized by NCES Security Services
Message Store Messaging
Updates
M2M Messaging
Information Displayed on UDOP
User Logs into UDOP
View Weather info

43. DKO Success Stories
USMC- Building and staging content today in DKO. Using targeted channel for C4 Planning Cell.
IASE- “… DKO has extended the capabilities of the information assurance (IA) community of interest."
JKDDC- For the first time, Joint users can use the Learning Management System (LMS). Only need a DKO account and Joint users can access their service training with Single Sign-On (SSO).
everyday

44. Why NCES?
“As-Is” Environment
Pre-NCES OODA Loop
Observe
Orient
Act
Decide
Stove-piped information = Large OODA Loop
“To-Be” Environment
Post NCES OODA Loop
Observe
Orient
Act
Decide
Shared, accessible information = Small OODA Loop
NCES creates a shared information space, increasing decision velocity

45. Today’s Challenges Substantial time and effort required to:
Identify, aggregate, and coordinate information and deliver operational plans
Identify and aggregate historical and event information from internal and external sources
Sharing information to support dynamic situational awareness is difficult to attain and maintain in active combat operations
Logistics, maintenance, and operational mission information is difficult and time consuming to correlate
Asset visibility is difficult to achieve and maintain

46. NCES Benefits NCES will enable:
Increased user access to accurate and relevant, automatically updated, information
Decreased planning cycle times
Rapid user access to local and enterprise information/intelligence sources
Accurate and relevant information retrieval from local and enterprise sources
Rapid exchange of information in support of shared situational awareness
Global visibility on combat support information
NCES Benefits:
Increase user access to accurate and relevant information that is automatically updated from a small set of authoritative sources and systems entry points
Decreased planning cycle times
Rapid user access to local and enterprise information/intelligence sources
Accurate and relevant information retrieval from local and enterprise sources
Rapid response to information queries supporting shared situational awareness
Rapid exchange of information in support of shared situational awareness
Global visibility on combat support information
From:
Operational Mission Planning Scenario
Information/Intelligence Fusion Scenario
JTF Combat Scenario
Logistics Scenario