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Deputy Director, C5 Integration

J7: Force Development /

Training Solutions /

Warfighter Challenges

J2: ISR & Information Sharing

J3: Readiness & Adaptive Planning

Joint Staff

Navy: Norfolk Army: Ft. Eustis

Air Force: Langley AFB

Marine Corps: Quantico

Service Developers

Allied Command

Transformation

NATO

Coalition Partners

Command

and Control

Integration

PACOM SOCOM

CENTCOM TRANSCOM

EUCOM STRATCOM

NORTHCOM

SOUTHCOM

AFRICOM

Combatant Commands

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MILCOM panel on Secure Information

Exchange with Non-Military Partners

and Entities

Mr. Stuart Whitehead Deputy Director

Command and Control Integration Joint Staff J6

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Enable The Joint Force J6 Mission

Develop, integrate and assess C4/Cyber capability

requirements on behalf of the Joint Force in order to:

• Deliver a sustained information advantage

• Enable decision and action at the speed of the

problem

• Ensure the Warfighter receives jointly integrated

and effective capabilities necessary to conduct

operations

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- Mission command

- Seize, retain and exploit initiative

- Global agility

- Partnering

- Flexibility in establishing Joint Forces

- Cross-domain synergy

- Information Sharing

- Increasingly discriminate to minimize

unintended consequences

Requirements Architectures Data Standards Assessment

Command and Control Integration (C2I)

Disciplined Requirement Development and Assessment

Software Encryption

Cyber Assessments

US-Coalition Data Exchange

Data and Standards

Mission Partner Environment

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Premise

Key to Globally Integrated Operations is Interoperability

• The continual search for interoperability has been and continues

to be defined by the communities which seeks it.

• What works for one community may not work for another;

therefore, the interoperability standards for one community are

usually not interoperable with another – yielding tailored solutions.

• Contemporary operations demand increased information sharing,

often between un-forecasted entities.

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Mission Partner Environment(MPE) Range of Military Operations

UNCLASS

NETWORKS

US BICES-X

Classified Releasable

FEDERATED MISSION NETWORKS

MN BICES

HA/DR MCO

MAX OMB

What is the CDRs intent? What is the mission?

Who are the partners? What classification level(s) do you need to operate in?

What information needs to be shared?

LOW TO HIGH

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What is Needed

Future information exchange solutions must:

• Respond to warfighter needs

• Be data standards driven

• Allow agile implementation

• Be easily composable

• Be easily scalable

• Accommodate a diverse user community

• Quickly integrate unanticipated users

• Incorporate a “trust but verify” approach

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Standards-Based Approach for Information Exchanges

The National Information Exchange Model (NIEM) provides a potential way forward

• Not a military “invention”

• Repeatable process for designing an information exchange

• Uses a collection of agreed, reusable data components

• XML-based

• Allows machine-to-machine data exchange to be implemented faster and at lower cost

• Approach already successfully demonstrated in a Mission Partner Environment

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Tactical Infrastructure Enterprise Services (TIES)

Coalition Warfare Program (CWP)

NIEM/XML Security Labeling

NIEM, Security Labeling, IdAM/ABAC, Redaction

NIEM Information Exchange Request/Response Publish/Subscribe

NATO Confidentiality Labeling Guidance

(STANAG 4774) Elements (with examples) - Classification: SECRET, RESTRICTED, … - Releasable To: Releasable to SWE, AUS, … - Policy: NATO

Translation

Translation

Translation

US Labeling Guidance (IC-ISM)

Elements (with examples) - Classification: S, TS - Releasable To: ISAF,

NATO

POSREP AIRTRK OBSPOS SA

NIEM Message

POSREP AIRTRK OBSPOS SA

NIEM Message

POSREP AIRTRK OBSPOS SA

NIEM Message

Country

Role

Email

Clearance

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Role

Email

Clearance

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Role

Email

Clearance

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Role

Email

Clearance

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Role

Email

Clearance

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How can Industry Help?

New Rules

• Our nation’s collective capability depends on industry for success in our future military operations, especially in environments that are increasingly dangerous and very complex.

• Industry, not Defense, is now the leader in IT development. Now is the time to accept the mission – knowing that our future security relies on commercial dominance. Embrace and adopt approaches that better meet the needs of our contemporary and future operating environments.

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Questions ?

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Mission Partner Environment - What does the Commander need?

Communicate Commander’s Intent

Build trust

Operate in the information environment

Create unity of effort

Possess speed of command

…not just share information

UNCLASSIFIED

“Our capabilities, tactics, techniques, procedures and terminology must be able to

translate across the services, the interagency and with our mission partners” (Chairman’s 2nd Term Strategic Direction to the Force)

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MPE Operational Metrics

MPE “So What”

− Clearly Communicates Commander’s intent and provides speed of

command for desired operational effects with all mission partners

− Allows for US and non-US formations, information, and data to operate in

the same battlespace (physical and non-physical)

− Leverages key US SIPRnet enablers (Joint Fires, Intel, Logistics, etc.)

− Flexibility in task organizing formations to fight more effectively

− Achieves a CCMD standard for consistency with allies and mission

partners

− US and partners fight with the equipment they own and train with

− Addresses CCMD persistent info sharing requirements and JTF episodic

events

− Elevates mission partners to peers and recognizes their sovereignty

− Defines the level of trust & addresses cyber vulnerabilities upfront

Mission Partner Advance Planning, Training, versus Crisis Reaction

UNCLASSIFIED

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Software Encryption Interoperability Assessment

Bulky communications encryption hampers troops operating in

remote locations

Software encryption methods may finally address this long standing issue

NSA “Suite B” software encryption

Commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) security solution

• Public standards, protocols, algorithms and modes for

protecting classified information

• Eliminate the need to transport bulky equipment

• Ease the burden of deployed forces

Prototype Assessment

Objective:

Ensure this new

capability meets

NSA requirements

and needs of the

Warfighter

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Warfighter Challenge

• COCOM’s need enduring solutions supporting persistent cross-COCOM

information sharing capabilities with mission partners n a fiscally

constrained environment:

– There is no immediate solution to address the problem

– COCOMs have an near-term requirement and desire for virtualized

enclaves, commercial encryption, shared IT infrastructures, secure

cloud services, machine to machine data exchanges and cross domain

gateways

• Collective government and Industry need to ensure the coalition

interoperability solution support operational relevance

• Enduring efforts need to be linked with the Episodic way ahead

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How do you know when you arrive?

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Coalition Interoperability Assurance and Validation (CIAV)

• Improve global interoperability

• Implement and execute:

– Coalition focused, mission

based process

– Persistent Environment

• Experimentation

• Development and Operational Assessments

• Train as we “Partner”

• Proactive vice Crisis Management

Notional Mission Partner

Test Environment

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Where do we go from here?

Paradigm Shift: Think inside, but start outside!

ME

Them

Them

If everyone did

it like me, we

would be

interoperable!

ME

If I did it like

you, I would

have to

change

everything!

What would allow

me to do what I

want, but still

communicate

with everyone?

Coalition

Joint

Commercial

It’s all about me! It’s all about us!