NCOIC GCC OWS-10 presentation 10 7 2013

NCOIC Rapid Response Capability Demonstration
Geospatial Community Cloud Concept
September 12, 2013
© 2013 Network Centric Operations Industry Consortium (NCOIC®). All Rights Reserved.
NCOIC®, NCAT®, NIF® and SCOPE™ of NCOIC.

2013: NCOIC At a Glance
• Global organization focused on industry neutral
concepts for NCO adoption and interoperability
• 9-year legacy of addressing global cross-domain
interoperability issues and concepts
• Lexicon, tools, processes and resources for building
interoperable systems across multiple marketplaces
• 55+ members and affiliates representing 12 countries
Members are Global Leaders:
Academic institutions
Air Traffic Management
providers
Service providers
Consulting
Engineering
Logistics
Defense suppliers
All military services
Multinational
Government agencies
Includes FFRDC & SETA
Non-Govt. Agencies
International Organizations
Human service agencies
System Integrators
Commercial systems
Defense systems
IT firms
Communications
Data management
Human-Machine interface
Information assurance
Standards Bodies
NCOIC’s Advisory
Council and many
External Relationships
Ensures Focus on
Customer Needs
(Joint, Interagency,
Civilian, Governmental,
and Defense)

NCOIC Plenary Meeting
Brussels, Belgium
June 21 – 25, 2010
NCOIC Lab Interoperability Project

• Integration of labs (started with battle labs)
• No common Industry approach
• 6 months to integrate a 4-company event *
 ~3 months for event objectives
 ~3 months to implement the infrastructure to support
interoperability
• Total cost of the event is approximately $1.2 million US or
$300K for each company in this example
• Lack common approach increases Risk
* Based on Boeing experience over last 4 years with industry averages
Background

 Using the lab interoperability technical framework
reduces expense, time, and risk
 Saves companies approximately $200k per event
 Reduces time-to-event execution by 2/3rds
 Reduces risk of event failure
Summary
Processes
2
4
3
1 Communication Interoperability and Information Assurance
DescriptionLevel
Core Middleware Support for LVC environment
Applications Hosted in Environment
Convergence of Visualization and Presentation Capability
Technology
Focus on Levels 1-
3

Geospatial Community
Cloud
Create Federated
Environment
Set Up Virtual
Organization
Access Control
Central Registry
Platform Resources
Localized Infrastructure
Expert
User
Cloud
Operator
Infrastructure
Provider
Data /
Content
Provide
r
Platform
Provider
Deployed
User
Processes
2
4
3
1 Communication Interoperability and Information Assurance
DescriptionLevel
Core Middleware Support for LVC environment
Applications Hosted in Environment
Convergence of Visualization and Presentation Capability
Technology
Focus on Levels
1-3
NGA Focus
The NCOIC is a interoperability process
organization
NCOIC members are trying to get more value out of
each product
Interoperability is a key value added capability
Government can do the same
NGA task; create a geospatial environment where
information is shared

DEMONSTRATION CONSIDERATIONS
The consortium was asked to consider ‘how to’ :
– leverage industry best practices
– protect digital geospatial data
– manage a bandwidth challenged environment
– ensure geospatial data consistency, interoperability
and mobility
– enable international collaboration
– facilitate backward compatibility

Cycle 1 Cloud Infrastructure
Cloud
Create Federated Environment
Set Up Virtual Organization
Access Control
Central Registry
Platform Resources
Cycle 1 -- Build the “Infrastructure as a Service” (IaaS)
Four cloud services acquired
Amazon
NJVC
Google
Savvis
Acquired storage space
Acquired Registry
Everything leased
Averaging $3-5k per mo

3
Cycle 2 Application Providers
Cloud
Create Federated
Environment
Set Up Virtual
Organization
Access Control
Central Registry
Platform Resources
Expert
User
Cloud
Operator
Infrastructure
Provider
Data /
Content
Provider
Platform
Provider
Deployed
User
Cycle 2 Plug into Cloud
App providers:
Applications for services
Fire & Rescue
Emergency Medical
Impact Assessment
SA ; location; structure, C2
Data providers
Data made available to users
Data developed by users
Virtual Organization (VO)
Sets data usage parameters
Multiple VO capabilities
Role based access

Demonstration
•Haiti
•Unified Response
•Infrastructure Build
•Capabilities Integrated

Operational Value
• Haiti provides an excellent model as the Hemisphere’s largest
disaster for this project as it covered the entire spectrum of
operations with joint agency, coalition military, NGOs and
private organizations
• Unified Response did use social media tools and Google Earth
and All Partners Access Network developed by PACOM but –
– Old fashion grease pencils on maps were widely used still
– Military/US Government overwhelmed by Nations, NGOs and Private
entities with desire to response and support
• Military and interagency operations were a huge
improvement in collaboration but engagement with other
international communities needs improvement
• IT infrastructures were not agile and access/permissions
hindered effective collaboration

GEOCLOUD
Incident Control
Center
Boeing-2
Dynamic Replan
Civil Engineering
Winthrop-7
BYOD Env
Management
Urban Srch &
Rescue
Boeing-3
Op Impact Assess
Dashboard
International
Coordination
NCOIC-1
Disaster Medical
Assistance Team
Raytheon-5
Android Tactical
System Response
Fire Response
Team
Raytheon-4
R3 Decision
Support Tool
Bridge
USGS-
18
Twitter
-15
Ship
Traffic-
16
EM Resp
Air
Traffic-17
Road
Secondary
Warehouse
14
8
9
13
12
11
VO bucket
Scripted
Communication
Technical
Communication
Interface
(Proposed)
Technical
Communication
Interface
(Completed)
Cloud
Management
NJVC-19
Cloud Services
Brokerage
Major earthquake occurs in Haiti.NATO initiate HADR mission.NATO GEOCLOUD contingency plan initiated. Regional cloud broker platform and
Haiti HADR virtual organization established.
NATO member countries provide key capabilities to HADR mission.Incident Control Center establish in Haiti.Red Cross engages as first major NGO to respond.GEOCLOUD initial roles established.Israel joins response as first non-NATO donor country.Roles modified to include Israel.
Emergency Mgmt
Team
Telos-6
SE7EN Mission
Planner /
AMHS/T-6
10
Primary
Warehouse
Relief ships reported in route to port facility. Twitter post indicate possible
structural damage to key bridges, roads and distribution facilities
Israeli law enforcement team assigned to visually inspect key bridge,
roads and two distribution warehouses.
Pri W’house
Collapsed
Primary warehouse reported as collapsed with fire, multiple medical
emergencies and people trapped in the rubble.
Emer Mgmt team dispatches Fire Res Team, Disaster Med Assist Team and Urban Srch & Res to
pri warehouse site. Fire Res Team assigned to monitor seismic activity and site air traffic control
Cyber intrusion concerns prompts Turkey to limit Israeli access to geodata they
provide. COIs adjusted.
Following NATO collaborative cyber defense protocols, other countries follow suit.
COIs adjusted.
All countries request geodata audit.
Pri W’house
Collapsed
Situation stabilized. Supplies at secondary warehouse.
TS: 1TS: 2TS: 3TS: 4TS: 5TS: 6TS: 7TS: 8TS: 9TS: 10TS: 11TS: 12TS: 13TS: 14TS: 15TS: 16TS: 17

Cloudcuity
Core Infrastructure Build
Savvis
Google
Google
Geosvr
Boeing
Geosvr
AWS
OpenStack
Aero
VO
GeoPaaS
Geoserver Pooling

Cloudcuity
NCOIC Rapid Response Capability
Savvis
Google
Google
Geosvr
Boeing
Geosvr
R3
AWS
BYOD
T6 RATS
GeoPaaS
Civil Eng
Cmd & CtlFire
Medical
OpenStack
Aero
VO
NRRC

Introduction
• Challenge: Securely manage resource sharing across a
dynamic, distributed IT environment
• Approach: Virtual Organizations (VOs)
– A VO is a security and collaboration context that is not exclusively associated
with any one physical organization or site
• An organization in cyber-space with agreed upon structure, rules and processes
– A VO has members that are assigned roles – a role identity
• A membership role grants specific capabilities within a given VO
– Sites participating in a VO contribute resources, i.e., data and services
• Sites retain complete control over their own resources!
• Access by VO members can be modified or revoked at any time
– Logging into a VO provides Single Sign-On for all resources within that VO
• Resources from all participating sites are made available to VO members --
according to their role
– VOs enable federated, community clouds

Adding VOs to OpenStack
• We integrated a VO Management System (VOMS) with OpenStack
– OpenStack is an open-source cloud software project
– We modified the Keystone Security and Swift Object Store Services to use the VOMS
– We extended the OpenStack project concept to include VO projects
Cloud A
Keystone
Cloud CCloud B
Keystone
The VOMS manages info for multiple VOs
• Members
• Roles
• Participating SitesVOMS w/ VOMS Admin
Haiti VO
Haiti VO Admin
Swift Swift Swift
List
Upload
Download
Keystone

Using VO Roles to Manage Data Access
VO Roles
Structural
Engineer
First
Responder
Participating Site
Access
Control
Lists
Medical
Data
Building
Plans, Maps
End User
Data
Read:
Write:
Read:
Write:
Read:
Write:
Local
Admin
“Owned
”
Data
Data
Containers
Medical
Staff

© 2013 Network Centric Operations Industry Consortium (NCOIC®). All Rights Reserved. NCOIC®,
NCAT®, NIF® and SCOPE™ of NCOIC.
Intellectual Heritage:
VOs Developed for Global Grids
Worldwide LHC Computing Grid routinely runs over 200 VOs
(Dashboard website: http://dashb-earth.cern.ch)

• GeoServer Pooling enables Interoperability by
collecting and presenting disparate GeoServices
as a common resource library
• The sum becomes greater than the parts.
• GeoServers compliment and fill gaps for each
other, fostering adaptation to standards and
creating cross platform compatibility.
GeoServer Pooling

GeoServer Pooling (Cycle 1)
• Many GeoServers e.g.
– OpenGeo (Amazon Linux AWS)
– GDS (Amazon/NJVC Windows AWS)
– Google Earth
– Google Earth Mobile
• Many GeoTranslators
• Many Data Sets

Operational Impact Assessment
App
1st Responder
Android App
Field and ICC Users

• OIA modes-
– Incident
– Tasks
– Map
– RSS Feeds
• Form/Freeform Interaction
– CASREP
– SITREP
– Chat/Messaging/SMS/MMS
– Geo-Logged Activity
Operational Impact
Assessment

• Ozone Widget Framework- Widget to Widget
• Auth VO Widget (Aerospace Corp)
• OpenGeo GDAL Translate Service (OpenGeo/OGC)
• Operational Impact Assessment App (Boeing)
• GDS (Boeing)
• T6 & Se7en (Telos)
• R3 & RATS (Raytheon)
• BYOD (Winthrop)
Interoperability Demo

• Mobile Geographic data labeling
application
• Supports standalone, sharing, and
export/import
• Low bandwidth requirements
• Store and forward
• Extensible and flexible
What is 1stSight?

• 1st responders teams arrive on
location noted in twitter posts
• Application launched and
warehouse labeled on geospatial
map
• Information entered
• Notes, pictures, audio memos
• Finding/updates are auto-pushed or
manually sync’ed to the central
database
Geocloud
Workflow
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Raytheon R3 Decision Support Tool
• Mission Requirement
– Focus analysts attention on those hazards likely to require humanitarian
assistance
• Knowledge Base Application
– Enables the production, storage and
access of geospatial knowledge of
natural hazards
– Computes a relative ranking of
natural hazards using a Scorecard
– Provides a means to monitor impact indicators, for example, changes in
• Twitter activity
• Ship Traffic
© 2013 Network Centric Operations Industry Consortium (NCOIC®). All Rights Reserved. NCOIC®, NCAT®,
NIF® and SCOPE™ of NCOIC.

RAYTHEON PROPRIETARY
Nominate Haiti Earthquake
Natural Hazards
& Other Reporting
Scorecard Model IWG-R3 Analyst
Geospatial Features
Population, Critical Infrastructure,
Public Places, Economic Data, … Communities
Of Interest

RATS 2.0: Key Features
• Works on COTS hand held devices (phones, tablets, cameras, etc)
– Operates on Android 4.0 and above
• Enhanced Security with Encrypted Data at Rest and Data in Transit
– Open SSL Security (FIPS140-2 Level 1 Compliant)
• Intuitive Interfaces and Geospatial Displays on handheld devices and server
– Enhanced situational awareness
• Secure Chat, Reporting, and Alerting
– SALUTE and Freetext messages with the ability to attach multimedia files
• Remote Maintenance and Configuration
– View device information (battery life, screen state, network info, processor info, running apps)
– View and modify device date (images, video, text message history, call history, contacts)
– Control the device (enable streaming video and audio, enable a hotspot)
RATS 2.0: Providing Enhanced Situational Awareness to the WarfighterRATS 2.0: Architected for Real-world Environments
Providing Enhanced Situational Awareness

RATS Handheld Interface
Newsfeed Alerts Chat Resources
Geospatial View Reports
Log In Screen

RATMAN…
• Operates on COTS Laptop
• COP that tracks assets and provides
updates on status
• An available adaptor interface allowing
linkages to be configured to multiple
data sources and ISR assets
• Can use networked or cached
geospatial resources
• Intuitive user interface
• Holistic mobile system for rapid
information exchange to the EDGE
RATMAN Interface

Highlights
• This program provides the model for continued/ongoing
collaboration which was cited as key lesson learned:
– Ability to have sustained dialogue and interaction
between military actors and international organizations
should be on-going to some degree
– Ability to conduct exercises to refine processes and
systems with a cloud based system
– Provide a virtual response framework to be built quickly
when disaster strikes

Highlights - continued
• Project demonstrated how to codify unclassified
information sharing tools, common operating
picture, make them adaptable to any partner-
nation system
• Brokered approach can facilitate the locating of
displaced persons as it continues to be a challenge
• Greatly enhances effective distributions of logistics
and security forces
• Allows for greater ability to leverage local and
poorer nations who have expertise but lack the
tools and infrastructure

Program Development - 3 Goals
• Cost
– Cloud Infrastructure is extremely cost effective
– Cost factors 10% to 80 % lower
– Cloud services growing throughout the globe
– Applications now the largest cost but should be developed and in use
– When done shut down no residual cost
• Schedule
– Development time is measured in hours vs months
– Longest time would be determining and setting up service providers
– Requires some preconceived thought as to services needed
• Capability
– Flexible infrastructure with tremendous growth
– Applications added to provide operational capability

NRRC
• NRRC is a process/pattern
• Rapid infrastructure development
– Global capability
– Dramatically lower cost (less than ½ the cost)
• Secure unclassified environment
– Standard approach to security
– Independent control adhering to local rules regulations
and laws
• Application integration
– Plug and play (not quite but close)
– Information sharing increasing application value (10x to
100x value)

Demonstration Summary
• NRRC
– A new way of doing business
– Cost down
– Implementation speed up
– Reliability high
• Operational Impact
– Concept addresses a real world situation
– Operational viability understood
– Implementation will require a new thought process
• Global direction
– Cost alone will drive global solutions into cloud solution
– Ease of information sharing will create cross domain solutions
– Security becomes the new focus
When a business can return 75% of IT costs to the profit line
- arguments against become moot

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