Lessons Learned:
Government Cloud Computing
KEVIN JACKSON
KEVIN.JACKSON@DATALINE.COM
(703) 335-0830

“Cloud Computing” Has Two-FaceS
• Business Model • Technology
• SaaS • Virtualization
• Software • Application
Fabric
• Storage
• Hadoop
• PaaS • WAN
• IaaS • SAN
• CaaS • Internet
• Etc. • Etc.

 Collabnet
Cloud computing approaches that uses an collaborative
development environment can be used to produce and
manage applications in the DoD

Global Content Delivery
A global content distribution service based on a cloud computing
platform can be used effectively to support and enhance DoD
missions.

 Salesforce.com
Cloud computing based technologies (CRM and social
networking) reduce the cost of and increase efficiencies in
the military service recruiting process

A cloud computing business model can reduce the cost of
providing information to the public.

Cloud computing techniques can be used to increase public access
to high value, machine readable datasets generated by the
Executive Branch of the Federal Government.

•Eucalyptus •RabbitMQ
•Lustre file system •Erlang
•MySQL •Trac
•Apache SOLR •Subversion
•Tomcat 6 •Agilo
•Django •Fabric
I’d like to say it a little more bluntly. If CIOs don’t get ready, manage fears and manage
their risk, they will get run over by this disruptive technology. Your organization is doing
it anyway – without you! So do something! You don’t have to move your entire
enterprise into the cloud, just take the first step and look at some appropriate
datasets. This doesn’t have to be an all or none decision.
- Linda Cureton, CIO NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
The cloud computing model can be effectively and efficiently used
to conduct advanced government research.

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•Cloud computing technology and business models may be useful
in quickly providing inexpensive and valuable software
applications and information to the public.

Network Centric Operations Industry Consortium
Five Years of Achievement & Growth
Industry working together with our customers
www.ncoic.org
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Distribution Unlimited
NCOIC Overview 20090710

NCOIC™ - Achieving the Vision and
Accomplishing the Mission
Vision
Industry working together with our customers to provide a network
centric environment where all classes of information systems interoperate
by integrating existing and emerging open standards into a common
evolving global framework that employs a common set of principles and
processes.
NCO
System B
System A
System C
Mission
Our mission is to facilitate the global realization of Network Centric
Operations. We seek to enable interoperability across the spectrum of
joint, interagency, intergovernmental, and multinational industrial and
commercial operations. NCOIC is global, with membership open to those
who wish to apply the vast potential of network centric technology to the
operational challenges faced by our nations and their citizens.

The NCOIC –
Focused solely on network centric
A global perspective to facilitate
NCO adoption
An industry neutral perspective to
facilitate NCO adoption
An industry, government and
academic cadre of expertise

Advisory Council
 AC Chairman General (Ret) Harald Kujat
 Swedish MoD BG Hakan Bergstrom
 Joint Staff J6 VADM Nancy E. Brown, USN
 UK MoD AVM Carl Dixon, RAF
 Italian MoD Maj. Gen. Pietro Finnocchio, ITAF
 German Mod Dr. Gerhard van der Giet
 Allied Command Transformation MGen Koen Gijsbers, RNLA
 US Navy Liaison ADM Harry B. Harris, Jr.
 Australian Defence Organisation RADM Peter Jones
 AC Chairman Emeritus Paul G. Kaminski
 National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency Dr. Robert Laurine
 Federal Aviation Administration Mr. Charles Leader
 European Defense Agency Mr. Carlo Magrassi
 US Coast Guard Liaison Mr. Mark T. Powell
 French MoD BGen Blandine Vinson-Rouchon, DGA
 Former ASD/NII Honorable John Stenbit
 NATO C3 Agency Maj Gen Georges D’Hollander, BE AR
 NATO CISSA LtGen Kurt Hermann
 US Army CIO/G6 LTG Jeffrey Sorenson
 Defense Staff European Union r. Carlo Magrassi

Integrated Project Teams (IPTs)
and Functional Teams (FTs)
Aviation IPT C3 Interop. Net Enabled Emergency Sense & Maritime
Cyber Security
IPT Response IPT Respond IPT
IPT
Logistics IPT
Application Focus
Tool Focus
NIF NCAT Specialized Frameworks Building Blocks Systems Engineering
and Integration
Coming Next
FTs provide the technical expertise to serve customer domains, and the IPTs
provide operational information to the FTs to inform our tools and databases 14

Lessons Learned Summary
• When discussing how to use cloud computing, both business case and technology
aspects should be addressed
• Cloud computing approaches that uses an collaborative development environment
can be used to produce and manage applications in the DoD
• A global content distribution service based on a cloud computing platform can be
used effectively to support and enhance DoD missions.
• Cloud computing based technologies (CRM and social networking) reduce the cost of
and increase efficiencies in the military service recruiting process
• A cloud computing business model can reduce the cost of providing information to
the public.
• Cloud computing techniques can be used to increase public access to high value,
machine readable datasets generated by the Executive Branch of the Federal
Government.
• The cloud computing model can be effectively and efficiently used to conduct
advanced government research.
• Cloud computing technology and business models may be useful in quickly providing
inexpensive and valuable software applications and information to the public.
• NCOIC is investigating its possible role in assisting the governments and industry
providers in the adoption of cloud computing.

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