NGA Enterprise Planning and Implementation

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eGEOINT enabling GEOINT a SOA
journey
Geospatial Line of Business Seminar US Department
of Transportation
Gregory Black Director, eGEOINT Management Office
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Agenda

• Purpose
• Vision
• Approach
• Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) Governance
• Summary
• Opportunities for Partnership

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Purpose

• Demonstrate NGAs commitment to
• Improve NGAs Warfighter support, information
  sharing, collaboration, and faster capability
  delivery
• Fulfilling evolving and expanding needs for
  GEOINT
• Maintaining NGAs position as GEOINT provider of
  choice across DoD and the Intelligence Community
• Assuring implementations, and business practices
  are consistent with national and community
  strategies

Mission enhancing GEOINT Visualization Access
services available Spring 2007
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Vision - eGEOINT - What

• To satisfy the mission needs of its partners, the
  vision for NGA includes being the premier online,
  on-demand geospatial data, information and
  knowledge service provider.
• This service should provide global access to
  seamless content, related products and access to
  experts - whether from NGA or from its business
  counterparts around the world.
• requires a new business perspective.
• is more than a technology shift for NGA.
• Benefits
• User focused - internally and externally
• Accelerates time to knowledge for all analysts
  and end users
• Geospatially enables data and decision-making
• Provides a GEOINT foundation for the NSG

As a combat support agency, NGAs aim should be
to increase our partners capacity for
independent action.
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NSG Common Challenges

• Fundamental missions
• Multi-INT, Multi-Source, collaboration, Coalition
  Interoperability
• Increased demand for GEOINT by both traditional
  and
• non-traditional customers, e.g. Katrina,
  GWOT, etc.
• Many Stakeholders Many Cultures

Public Release case 06-231B
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eGEOINT Approach

• Process
• ID policy hurdles
• Demonstrate new
• business model
• Educate

• Key Partnerships
• Early engagement
• Use of pilot
• Learn by doing
• Link partners

• Scenarios
• Demonstrate Value
• Link partners
• Process change

• Technical
• Initiatives
• Demonstrate Value
• Fill gaps

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Transforming Discovery and Access through
SOA/Web
Services

• Data Management Delivery
• DISA Content Discovery Delivery

• Access
• GEOINT Web Services (OGC)
• Enterprise ArcSDE
• Application ready data
• Enterprise ArcIMS
• Top Drawer (non-standard data)
• SOA Infrastructure
• Registry, ESB, Monitoring

• GEOINT Visualization
• 3d Google Earth, ESRI AGX
• 2d NGA Palanterra, NGA Earth
• Other clients via OGC Web Service interfaces

Self-Service Assisted Service Full-Service
Two Networks 1000s of Users Spring
2007 Incremental Growth of Capabilities
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Early Adaptors of Visualization Tools

• Users
• EUCOM, TRANSCOM, STRATCOM, SOUTHCOM, PACOM,
  NORTHCOM, ONI, Homeland Security, Secret Service,
  FBI, Health Human Services, CIFA, DHS, DTRA,
  NOAA, USCG, MAD, AFWA, NSA, DIA and NGA
• Uses
• Situational Awareness
• Information Sharing
• Data Aggregation
• Force Protection
• Mission Planning and Rehearsal
• Incident tracking

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Opportunities for Partnership

• Partner with NGA to identify benefits and
  implications to your operations
• Use the GEOINT Visualization Pilot
• Examine your local environment and policies
• Client loads, Firewall policies, Data enablement
• Apply a SOA model to your operations plans
• provide and consume services in a net-centric
  environment
• Learn by doing

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Summary/ Discussion

• NSG SOA is a foundation for Mission Success
• Increased agility to connect Sensors,
  Decision-makers, Shooters through NetCentricity
• Net Centricity through Service Orientation
• Focus on data/information and services
• Standards are still critically important
• eGEOINT program and influence moving forward
• Significant near-term adjustments already
  affected
• Requires continued focus to affect culture change
• Must continue to push execution processes
• Must unify objectives and governance

Approved for public release NGA 07-102
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NATIONAL GEOSPATIAL-INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
Approved for public release NGA 07-102