Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Pacific
NDIA Fall Symposium
Mr. Bill Bonwit SSC Pacific Executive Director
24 October 2017
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SSC Pacific Mission
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From Concept to Capability via…
Research, development, engineering, and support of integrated C4ISR, cyber, and space systems across all warfighting domains
, and to rapidly prototype, conduct test and evaluation, and provide acquisition,
installation, and in-service engineering support.
SSC Pacific: Organization (as of 1 Oct 17)
CAPT Kurt Rothenhaus, CO Ms Carmela Keeney, ED
XO – CAPT Andrew Gainer
Technical Director Lee Zimmerman
CAPT Mel Yokoyama CO
Mr. Bill Bonwit ED
Finance Tom Modica
Legal Eric Flores
Contracting Sharon Pritchard
Corporate Ops Jack Cabana
C2 / Enterprise Engineering
Vacant*
ISR Lynn Collins*
* SSTM: Senior Scientific and Technical Manager
Guam Japan
Program & Project Mgmt Joe Adan
Cyber / S&T Dr. Stephen Russell
Pacific C4ISR CDR Remil Capili
Alan Umeda
Communications / Networks Susie Hartzog*
Logistics & Fleet Support Mavis Machniak
Battlespace Awareness (BA)
Bryan Tollefson
Decision Superiority (DS)
Vacant
Integrated Cyber Operations (ICO)
Mari Garcia-Reynante
Transport and Computing
Infrastructure (TCI) James Reed
Production, Installation, & In-Service Support (PII)
Jamie Schlosser
Business and Force Support (BFS)
Linda Kusumoto
Discovery and Invention (D&I)
Dr. Dimitris Tsintikidis
Business Portfolios Executive Portfolio Manager Tom Tiernan
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Challenges and Opportunities
Challenges Aging infrastructure and IT Cyber Security threats & requirements Retaining agility GO FAST!!
Opportunities DevSecOps Cyber Autonomy Innovation and prototyping In the right place and mission GO FAST!!!
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Go Faster… ▼ Goal: Bring capabilities to the fleet faster, cheaper, & with
more agility ▼ Problem: Software development, integration, and test, is
time and labor intensive Software installation − Lengthy, manual, complicated, and error prone
Functional test − Delays between development and formal testing can be years
Updates are not automated
▼ Won’t be solved by just adding more people
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“Elegant Engineering” starts with …
Easy to use Easy to learn
Easy to maintain Easy to train
Easy to install Easy to secure
Easy to say, more difficult to do…
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Easy to Use ▼ User Centered Design Intuitive Interfaces Task/deliverable oriented interfaces Migrate training focus to function (C2, ISR) instead of tool usage − Goal is to have only operational training; no tool training necessary
Templates for user interfaces, CONOPS/Use case-based ▼ Context sensitive help/training ▼ YouTube-like help/training ▼ Automated identity access and management
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Easy to Maintain ▼ Automated: Code quality, security, and functionality testing Installation and verification of installation System Operational Verification Test and System (of systems) Operational Test Configuration management Functional updates and patches for security
▼ System Health Monitoring: Systems autonomously know if they can support the patch Systems know if they’re behind in patching ISEA awareness maintained automatically Remote and local monitoring
▼ Software developed to be secure and ATO-ready from the start ▼ Robust disaster recovery and back up
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How to move to Elegant Engineering ▼ It’s a cultural change (gov’t and industry) ▼ Get appropriate level of user (Fleet) involvement in the
design ▼ Change the engineering culture (gov’t and industry) Minimally acceptable is not good enough Drive to excellence in delivery and sustainment comparable to
consumer industry best − Take advantage of improvements through DevSecOps
Build the business case for cost savings in training, maintenance, and speed/ease of delivery
▼ Use budget reductions to drive better enterprise behavior
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Elegant engineering is a series of best practices that deliver a solution that is highly effective, holistic, and intuitive.
Conclusion
Highly Effective Holistic Intuitive • Meets all agreed to functional requirements • Meets the needs of the
user • Enables mission success • Exceeds customer expectations on cost, schedule, and performance. • Is resilient, secure
• Satisfies derived requirements
• Addresses the “ilities”: maintainability, reliability interoperability, modularity, sustainability, scalability, extensibility
• Designed for usability • Easy to train • Easy to learn • Easy to use • Organized • Easily Supported • Intuitive
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