Lotus Global Government Forum 2000

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Lotus Global Government Forum 2000
Building an effective knowledge-sharing network
at the German Federal Ministry of Defense
ORR Wolfgang Taubert FMoD Germany IT staff (IT
2) Phone [phone] Fax 49 228
127414 E-Mail Wolfgang.Taubert_at_bmvg.bund400.de

Federal Ministry of Defence
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Topics

• The Bundeswehr advancing steadily into the 21st
  Century
• Establishment of an IT director
• Bw-IT-Standards / new procurement philosophy
• IT-Infrastructure for the Bundeswehr in common
• Notes/Domino - a strategic decision for the
  Bundeswehr - common mailsystem, intranet,
  military message handling (N-DMS), ...

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The Bundeswehr advancing steadily into the 21st
Century

• The reorientation of the Bundeswehr is one of
  the major reforms envisaged by the federal
  government.

The Bundeswehr Advancing Steadily into the 21st
Century - Cornerstones of a Fundamental Renewal
(approved by german government and Bundestag in
06/00)

• What ?
• Germany's armed forces must being prepared for
  full deployment and readily available for the
  likeliest missions
• reduction of personnel (360.000)
• reorganisation
• the equipment held by the Bundeswehr will be
  fully modernised
• establishment of the Acquisition and Operation
  Company (GEBB).

• Why ?
• Germanys geo-strategic situation improved
  considerably after the removal of the East-West
  antagonism
• national defense, alliance defense and crisis
  prevention including crisis management
• Combined and joint operations
• More Flexibility in procurement and operation.

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Establishment of an IT director
Top priority strategic deployability
spaceborne reconnaissance capability
Second priority will go to fielding
high-performance, compatible communication and
command and control facilities, these being
pacemakers for interoperability and a basic
requirement for establishing a joint and combined
system network.

• The different controlling systems applied in the
  various organisational areas will be merged into
  one unified general controlling system. A
  strategic controlling element will be established
  to immediately support and advise the minister.
  The post of an IT director will be established
  within the executive group. the responsibilities
  for the procurement and operation of IT software
  and hardware, which have hitherto often been
  split up between the users and the suppliers,
  will be merged and placed in his charge.

IT director CIO IT staff 6 branches with 53
pers. established 1st august 2000
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Principles of IT

• IT must be optimised for the likeliest missions
• joint solutions have priority before
  TSK-particular solutions
• future requirements are joint and combined
• responsibilities must be more centralized
• IT-projects must be fit into a joint architecture
  (operational and technical)
• using COTS solutions has priority over fulfilling
  requirements sharply
• incremental evolutionary develepment is a must
• first increments must be fielded in less than 2
  years
• realisation and operation by industrial methods

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Bw-IT-Standards new procurement philosophy

• new procurement philosophy - CGM
• no influence at the market
• market share of solutions
• competition - efficiency (development,
  procurement, training, operation, ...)
• interoperability
• meet FMoD-specific requirements

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Strategy to define Bw-IT-standards
IT-Standards
(APIs, procedures, products, ...)
industrial IT-standards
paper-based IT-standards
ind. organizations
mil. organizations
one vendor
civ. organizations
Windows MAC-OS OS/2
OS-Client
???
???
OSF
Notes Exchange
Message handling
X.400
STANAG 4406
SNMP
Network-protocol (OSI 3/4)
SNA Transdata
OSI
TCP/IP
TCP/IP
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IT-landscape of the Bundeswehr
FMoD
IT support of FMoD
Armed Forces Staff C3I-system RUBIN

• core and synergistic
• functions
• message handling
• IntraNet Bw
• ...

C3I-systems
Defense Administration Administrative
Information Systems (planned SAP R/3, ...)
army - HEROS air force - EIFEL navy - MHQ ...
IT platforms
IT-networks
strategic (ISDN Bw, Satcom Bw, ...)
tactical/mobil (AutoKo, AutoFü, ...)
local (agency/office related)
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IT-Infrastructure for the Bundes-wehr in common
(1)
General/joint assets for all organizational units
of the Bundeswehr and for all projects

• Stratetic networks (ISDN Bw, IntFmSysBw, satcom)
• tactical networks for the forces (mobile)
• IT-Networks for agencies, ....
• Data processing centers
• IT-Service centers
• agency oriented IT-equipment (server, pc,
  printer, ...)
• core and synergistic functions

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IT-Infrastructure for the Bundeswehr in common (2)
mobile IT-Systems
LAN FMOD
"travelling user"
Satcom
Wide Area Network (part of the national
information infrastructure)
radio
Internet
LAN
Mainframe computing center
NATO, IVBB, ...
Service Center
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Notes/Domino - a strategic decision for the
Bundeswehr

• common mailsystem
• platform for workflow- and groupware apps
• IntraNet Bw
• military message handling (N-DMS)
• licensing

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Notes/Domino more than ...(1)
extended organisation
information exchange with partners
development of electronic community
values
integrated organisation
crossfunctional communication
processes
KM


information exchange
workflow
working groups
work group collaboration
coordinate
communicate
cooperate
solution framework in common
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Notes/Domino more than ...(2)
Bundeswehr and partners
GÜZ
integration
SAP R/3
Intranet aktuell


Bundeswehr
WEWIS II
Notes Verbund
e-learning
staffs
REVO
working groups
Rubin (C3I system)




cooperate
coordinate
communicate
solution framework in relation to Bundeswehr
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Notes/Domino more than ...(3)
solution framework today and in the near future
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Notes/Domino more than ...(4)

• Notes/Domino-infrastructure is designed and
  operated by an all services overlapping concept
• central gateways to SMTP, X.400, TT, Fax
• central applications in the responsibility of an
  central operating group
• local applications in the responsibility of
  services or agencies

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Common mailsysten (1)
at more than 45.000 desktops near to unified
messaging
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Common mailsystem (2)

• IT-standard for FMoD / Bundeswehr
• gt 45.000 personal users today
• gt 4.000 organizational users today
• gt 600 locations today
• platform for scheduling, wfm, groupware
• PKI up to sensitive but unclassified

Notes/Domino is a central part of the
IT-infrastructure of the Bundeswehr !
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IntraNet Bw

• for all services (joint)
• at home and abroad (SFOR, KFOR, ...)
• prototype with gt 40.000 users
• Domino-based-Web-Servers
• Infomanagement via you_at_web

you_at_web - Domino based content management
system by Conet Consulting
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National DMS (1)

• joint MMHS - NuKomBw2000
• 60.000 user, 450 locations
• E-Mail, Fax, ACP 127
• P 772 - MMHS-extensions
• Bw-IT-Standards (Notes/Domino)
• STANAG 4406, X.400, X.500 (interop !!!)
• up to secret

DMS - defense message system (Lockheed Martin
Inc,)
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National DMS (2)

• Demonstrator based on Notes/Domino DMS in 99
  (sucessful !)
• Realisation in 2001-2005
• NuKomBw2000 (US) DMS
  - US-IT-sec-subsystem
  nat. IT-sec-subsystem

realised by Siemens, LM Inc., ...
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Licensing

• general license
• 105.000 users
• option 15.000 users
• all updates up to 2003
• second level support)
• strategic partnership
• benefits for Bundeswehr
• saving of licensing costs
• improvement of standardisation
• reduction of admin. costs

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Summary the way ahead challanges

• ERP-integration (SAP R/3)
• IT-sec in Notes/Domino
• high grade security ?!
• NSA controlled IT-sec (WRF, ...) ? Bundeswehr
  doesnt use Notes/Domino for handling of secure
  data without additional IT-sec measures,
  Bundeswehr cant accept NSA control about secure
  data, question of national souvereignty.
• Military extensions (NATO STANAGS)

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Summary lessons learned

• Best of the market !
• Joint for all services
• Central part of the IT-infrastructure of the
  Bundeswehr (Mail, Web, PKI, ...)
• Strategic partnership
• pragmatic standardization approach

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Building an effective knowledge-sharing network
at the German Federal Ministry of Defense
ORR Wolfgang Taubert FMoD Germany IT staff (IT
2) Phone [phone] Fax 49 228
127414 E-Mail Wolfgang.Taubert_at_bmvg.bund400.de