Slide deck for BAOS dynamic workspace

1. Battlefield Airmen Operating System
Connecting Battlefield Airmen in a social information environment:
• A Cyber Weapon System:
Methodology of the Past (Doctrinal)
Technology of the Today (Tactics, Techniques, Procedures)
Neutralize threats of Tomorrow (Leverage Technology)
• Organizational Amnesia:
•Someone in my organization knows the answer
•Find the needle in the „hay-stack‟
• Analyze the process:
•Get an hour back in your day thru the power of IBM
•Stop throwing the needle into another „hay-stack‟
• Dynamically Collaborate in the “best practices” modern industry has to offer

2. Battlefield Airmen Operating System
The Solution
A Mobile Application Suite designed for rapid response to global
events:
• This OS is an application
framework designed to allow users
to rapidly project Combat Air
Power:
• External Ignorance
• We don‟t know what we don‟t
know
• We don‟t know what
questions to ask
• Some one out there knows
the answers
• Internal Amnesia Full Spectrum Collaboration
• We don‟t know what we know
already
• Summary of “Big Data”: Move
from search to discovery

3. Battlefield Airmen Operating System
The Threat
• In the past organized revolutions took years to
materialize, and may have potentially flickered
out without gaining momentum. Now, ideations
can play out in a matter of minutes or days.
• Natural and financial disasters or politically
motivated movements are more likely to spawn
high velocity social dynamics that result in
unpredictable disasters which will surely lead to a
global response from today's already tasked
force.
The PAC responds
• In the past twelve months, social networks have
demonstrated that they provide a spring board
for nearly instant mobilization of people to
tremendous results.

4. Battlefield Airmen Operating System
Value Proposition
 The world has seen the power of social
media environments like Facebook,
Twitter, Wikis, Blogs, You Tube and
Flickr. It has also seen the adoption of
over 1 Billion mobile apps at mind
blowing speeds.
 Our potential adversaries in
asymmetric engagements use all kinds
of open media as a simple/cost
effective C4 hub capability.
Internal Collaborative
environments are more  In many cases this open media is
effective than external timelier in reporting critical events than
networks…. due to the the news sources and national security
ability of focused reporting structures.
powerful Enterprise
Content Management  The Value of Facebook: is not the
and Analytic tools. People or Content rather it‟s the ability
to analyze the content.

5. Battlefield Airmen Operating System
Intelligence Gathering
• Even the most effective intelligence collection
management processes in which humans set
collection priorities will always be pitifully slow in
their ability to react to network actions.
• The USAF can harness the power of external
social tools in parallel to an internal social
space which allows the enterprise to reduce
operational cost thru the leveraging of smart
technology.
• Summary: Internal velocity must equal
external velocity
…We need to develop tools and techniques to help our workforce negotiate better
business deals; and ensure our workforce has the skills, training, education and
experience to produce results for the Air Force and for the taxpayers.
Michael B. Donley
Secretary of the Air Force

6. Battlefield Airmen Operating System Build an “App for that”
Assessment and response to a cyber network requires a paradigm for
viewing the battlespace. The BAOS is an accelerated framework designed for

rapid assembly of applications.
 The weapon system must manipulate the data from the
social network in many unique ways. This causes
multiple intelligence gathering disciplines to be fussed
together.
Collapse Structures
 Multi-Int / A framework designed to view pedigree
apps in a Thematic, Temporal and Geospatial
representation
Strategic/Tactical Analysis Natural Disaster Preparedness Obvious /Non-Obvious Relationships

7. Battlefield Airmen Operating System
IBM‟s “SIE” application frame-
work is:
1. A reduction in operational costs
2. Flexible with agnostic plug-in
capabilities (current & legacy)
Forms
3. Agile and highly adaptable to
meet specific mission
applications/needs
4. A scalable framework for the
enterprise
5. Built on open
standards, unprecedented
computing power and advanced
analytics

8. Battlefield Airmen Operating System
The IBM Collaborative Workspace is built on a social
collaboration and discovery accelerator framework that is
highly extensible to support customizable applications
regardless if located on SIPR for US, BICES for NATO or
NIPR for other alliances.
The BAOS is:
• Ready to ingest “AFKN” in order to make the existing
networks and data bases more relevant and accessible to
the enterprise
•Ready to meet short term KM, collaboration and situational
awareness
•Designed to be the framework that enables extension of the
enterprise into the cloud
•A data and operating system agnostic framework ready to
deploy on any platform (Including JSTARS)
The BAOS will:
•Protect sources and methods with hidden communities and
file restricting the dissemination of sensitive information to
the right people at the right time
•Readily equipped with new and accurate data to support
crucial decision making

9. Battlefield Airmen Operating System
Organizational Pedigree
Rapidly assemble "an app for that" using embedded Portlet and Widget factories in order
to respond to emerging threats or requirements.
Rapidly build cyber weapon systems to provide the common operational environment
through the rapid assembly of “apps” for command, control, combat support, combat
service support, intelligence and business functions.
The framework, can rest on any operating platform as a service providing an enterprise-
wide Information Technology (IT) infrastructure, allowing consolidated Distributed Data
Centers (DDCs) to serve as the repositories of all USAF data and integrate National
Mission Forces and Theater Forces networks with appropriate controls.
Tactics, Techniques,Procedures

10. Battlefield Airmen Operating System
Ingesting: Data Bases, Sensors, Feeds and Sources
Anonymously
Scraped Social
Media Feeds
Anonymously
OSINT /
PACINT
Feeds
Source
Repositories &
Databases

11. Battlefield Airmen Operating System
Work Flow and Processes
Human (HITL) Process
Highly efficient
human
Management
realization
Enterprise Social Sensor Spectrum Mash Up
Organization Organic, related & Hub of easily
extended grid of consumable
A virtual (FOB) and
data base and feeds
Dynamic Work Space
sensor
where internal
management
collaboration exists
Analytics Digital Authoring
Orchestrated Document
discovery for system production
realization
A Recursive Model

12. Battlefield Airmen Operating System
Doctrine governs the way in which
the DoD conducts business. If the
members of an enterprise are to use
a system…then one would expect
that system to be a framework that
rests on that same doctrinal
methodology.
Collaboration: Effective joint operations require
close coordination, cooperation, and information
sharing among multiple organizations. The most
common technique for promoting this
collaboration is the identification or formation of
centers, groups, bureaus, cells, offices,
elements, boards, working groups, and planning
teams and other enduring or temporary cross-
functional staff organizations that manage
specific processes and accomplish tasks in
support of mission accomplishment.