Web Hosting Services

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Web Hosting Services for DoD April 8, 2009 Ms.
Judith Berger
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Web Hosting Services for DoD

• Speakers
• Ms. Judy Berger
• Chief, Information Analysis Technical Support,
  DTIC
• Mr. Brian Doty
• Chief, Technology Project Management Division,
  DTIC
• Ms. Michelle Seaward
• Chief, Program Analysis Technical Support
  Division, DTIC
• Ms. Sandy Scroggs
• Project Lead, Information Analysis Technical
  Support Division, DTIC
• Mr. Paul Kemble
• Project Lead, Program Analysis Technical
  Support Division, DTIC

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Component Information Support
Component Information Support Christopher Thomas
CTO Christopher Thomas
Information Analysis Technical Support
Division Judy Berger
Program Analysis Technical Support
Division Michelle Seaward
Technology Project Management Division Brian Doty
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Directorate Mission
Program Analysis Technical Support Customer
Focused DDRE
Information Analysis Technical Support Customer
Focused External
Joint Staff
OSD GC
ATL
OSD NII
DISA
DDRE
DFAS
Plans Programs
Technology Project Management
Technology Focused Search / Wiki / Tools
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Web Application Support New Cross DTIC Support
DTIC Wide Projects DTIC Online DoDTechipedia SI
PRNET Web Site Usability Windows Tracking Search W
iki
Information Analysis Technical Support Division
Program Analysis Technical Support Division
Technology Project Management Division
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• Program Management
• Key Role of DTIC-A Staff

• Project Management Institute (PMI) methodology
• Investment in training to prepare for Project
  Management Professional (PMP) certification test
• Responsible for projects
• Develop Memorandums Of Agreement (MOA) and
  Statements of Work (SOW)
• Collect Requirements
• Estimates
• Scheduling
• Planning
• Tracking
• Documentation
• Coordination of support from contractors
• Coordination of support from Information
  Technology Support
• Focus on content and end users
• Face of DTIC for external customers (Joint Staff,
  OSD, Military Services)

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COOP Services Key Role of DTIC-A San Diego

• 4 of 9 staff in San Diego focused on IT
• Support Local Desktop services, Exchange Mail,
  etc., for San Diego Staff
• Windows System Admin
• Exchange Admin
• Support for DMZ COOP Services (in full
  coordination with Information Technology support)
• Solaris System Admin
• Oracle Database
• Web Servers
• Network Support
• Demilitarized Zone (DMZ)
• Continuity of Operations Plan (COOP)

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Benefits of DTIC DMZ Web Applications Hosting
Support

• First DoD DMZ (model for DISA DMZs) --
  Application Development
• Security emphasis with accreditation
• Security alone is not sufficient Content and
  Applications alone are not sufficient
• Provide Content and Services in a Secure
  Environment
• Standardization/cost savings
• For customers who can adapt to our environment,
  real benefit from expertise in supporting
  standard interfaces (Web Sites/Sun One,
  Application Server/JBOSS, Database/Oracle-MySQL,
  Language/Java)
• Document Sensitivity Management
• Appropriate marking of content
• Content owners retain control
• Control of user access based on sensitivity
• User Registration - LDAP-- PKI not enough
• Automated maintenance of user registration
• Policy awareness
• Assistance/Advice/Education of Content owners

15 years of successful secure Web hosting
experience including Joint Staff, NII, DFAS, etc.
LDAP Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
PKI Public Key Infrastructure
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Support Technologies

• Mr. Brian Doty
• Chief, Technology Project Management Division
• Topics
• DTIC Search Environment
• Web Site Analysis and Statistics
• Collaboration Tools
• DTIC Customer Contingency Initiatives COOP

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Technology Initiatives

• Intuitive Search Engine
• - FAST Search
• Web Analysis
• - WebTrends
• Collaboration Tools
• - Aristotle
• - A-Space
• - Bridge
• COOP
• - Sustainability for the Enterprise

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DTIC Online Search (FAST)

• Features
• To provide information services to the Warfighter
  and the Science and Technology community
• Google-like interface Microsoft FAST Search
  Engine
• Crawls and Searches all DoD sponsored content
• Categories logically grouped by DoD organization
• Environments Supported
• Public
• SSL
• SIPRNet

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DTIC Online Search Update

• Planned Improvements
• Provide improved feedback system for users
• Create a more accessible search environment (for
  disabled users)
• Add advanced features audio/visual, geographic
  area searching
• Integrate DTIC Online search with desktop search
• Export search to other .mil organizations
  (enhances DTIC reputation as information
  provider)

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DTIC Online Search Update

• Future Enhancements
• Provide a more robust development search
  environment
• Move to X86 server architecture
• Incorporate Web.2.0 technologies into the search
  experience
• Provide the user with expanded feature sets
• email alerting, tag cloud, advanced saved
  searches

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Web Site Analysis(WebTrends)

• WebTrends
• Web Analytics throughout the Enterprise
• WebTrends Connect
• Access seven standards-based methods for
  data exchange
• through WebTrends Connect. Centralized
  location for connecting to
• systems using ODBC, Smart Reports for
  Microsoft Excel, Analytics
• Analyze massive data sets
• Data Scheduler, a database tool that
  provides direct, secure access
• to millions of rows of Web site data
• Maximize your Web 2.0 investments
• By measuring and testing how visitors
  interact with rich Internet
• applications, online video, RSS feeds,
  consumer-generated media

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Web Analysiscontinued

• Identify successful content, channels, partners
  and
• campaigns
• Create calculations on the fly
• Dragging and dropping customer results and
  other Web site data into
• reports
• Streamline administration
• Customized access rights for individual users
  or categories of accounts,
• as well as preconfigured roles and
  groups.
• WebTrends Score
• Measure usability
• Identify visitors who are most likely to
  convert and engage them with
• relevant content.
• Measure the value of a visitor with a
  quantifiable measure

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CollaborationA-SPACE

• What is A-Space?
• Flagship initiative under the Deputy Director of
  National Intelligence for Analysis Analytic
  Transformation program
• Provides a common work environment for analysis
  and collaboration
• Design cues taken from social networking and Web
  2.0 technologies to facilitate collaboration,
  information sharing, and discovery of data and
  expertise across the Intelligence Community (IC)
• Joint effort ODNI (CIO and Analysis) with DIA
  (DI and DS) as executive agent
• Collaborative environment allows analysts to
  change the way they do analysis
• Gives IC analysts access to common data at the
  TS//SI//TK//G//HCS//OC level, browser enabled
  analytic tools, and ability to discover IC
  expertise using the Analyst Resource Catalog
  (ARC)
• Encourages critical thinking and collaboration
  early in the analytic process
• Emphasizes collaboration vice coordination and
  analysis vice production

Vision Analytic work environment for Search and
Discovery Data VisualizationAnalytic
ThinkingKnowledge Creation
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A-SPACEPurpose

• Purpose To create a fundamentally
• new environment for analysis to
• unleash the potential for a
• community of researchers
• Enhance the quality of
• researcher products
• Manage the mission
• more effectively
• Build more integrated
• research operations
• across the community

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BRIDGEWhat is it?

• BRIDGE is an environment for analytic outreach.
  Using Technology available through BRIDGE,
  analysts, scientists, and engineers can interact
  with subject matter experts in academia,
  journalists and NGOs on issues
• of security and international concern.
• BRIDGE provides an environment for IC analysts to
  share unclassified insights with state and local
  government.
• Provides a straightforward process for enabling
  technology into your environment
• Unclassified, Access Controlled, Virtual
  Environment
• Enables technology providers to develop against
  key Intelligence Community (IC) Web service
  endpoints
• Streamline integration with A-Space and other
  transformation
• technologies.
• Using Facebook perpetual beta model provides
  ability to shape the next generation

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How can BRIDGE help?

• Facilitating discovery and evaluation of
  promising Web 2.0 Tools
• BRIDGE creates an efficient path for the
  discovery of disruptive or gamechanging ideas
• Providing a way analysts and technologists can
  work together to develop solutions
• BRIDGE provides an opportunity for
  technology providers to objectively
• demonstrate the impact of their
  capabilities or adapt them if they fail.
• Enabling cheaper and faster technology insertion
  and encouraging easily integrated solutions
• BRIDGE provides an environment to connect
  maturing technologies with existing IC
• services avoiding reengineering to
  demonstrate viability
• Connecting analysts and technology providers to
  insight outside the Intelligence Community
• Analysts get access to a much broader set
  of expertise from outside the Community,
• subject matter experts, state and local
  authorities and technologists gain access to
• leading edge advancements in technology and
  connect them with leading
• Scientists and Engineers

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ARISTOTLE
Aristotle

• Collaborative Conception
• On-Line Social Networking
• Situational Awareness

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ARISTOTLEFor Science and Technology (ST)

• Provides
• - Situational Awareness Regarding ST Work
• Rapidly Reformulated
• Responsive Data Structure
• For
• - Organizations
• - Management
• - Technologists

People-Projects-Topics-Documents
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ARISTOTLE Ties Everything TogetherGraph Data
Model

• Explicitly models real-world relationships
  enabling users to discover the connections
  between entities
• Real-time, fully referential updating without
  re-indexing
• Supports multi-path searching for entities that
  are not directly related, e.g., indirect
  relationships with multiple degrees of separation

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COOP SERVICES

• Support Local Desktop services, Exchange Mail
• - Windows System Admin
• - Exchange Admin
• Mirror existing NCR DMZ Environment
• Solaris and Windows Systems
• - Oracle Data Base
• - Web Servers
• - Network Support
• Provide redundancy for DTIC Infrastructure
• Face of DTIC for external customers (Joint Staff,
  OSD, Services)

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DTIC Online Access Controlled

• Ms. Michelle Seaward
• Chief, Program Analysis Technical
• Support Division
• Topic
• DTIC Online Access Controlled

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DTIC Online Access Controlled
RE Portal, Private STINET, TEMS collections
and tools collapsed into single access controlled
interface
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DTIC Online Access ControlledDTIC Requirements

• Provide DTIC Users with single entry point for
  all DTIC products and services
• Improve User experience
• Standardize DTIC brand
• Provide Personalization Features to User
• RE Portal - Oracle Portal Platform w/ databases
• Private STINET - HTML Web site w/ databases
• TEMS - HTML Web site w/ databases
• Standardize Search Engines used within DTIC
• RE Portal - Retrievalware
• Private STINET-Verity
• TEMS Retrievalware (customized)
• DTIC IT staff maintaining too many disparate
  hardware and software configurations
• No consistency between development, staging and
  production environments
• Minimum redundancy and COOP capability

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DTIC Online Access ControlledDTIC Solutions

• Move to the Vignette Application Portal
• Provides single entry point
• User can personalize page
• User can manage content without software
  developer support
• Standardized development, staging and production
  environments
• Invested in robust servers for improved
  performance
• Provides Single Sign On for all DTIC products and
  services
• Move to FAST Search Engine
• Simply search across all DTIC collections
• Minimizes the types of hardware and software for
  IT staff to maintain
• Provides standard search functions for all users
• Secondary production environment for emergency
  back up

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RE Portal Current Entry Point
https//rdte.osd.mil
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RE Portal Search
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RE Portal Search Results
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Private STINET Current Entry Point
https//dtic-stinet.dtic.mil/
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Private STINET Quick Search
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Private STINETSearch Results
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TEMSCurrent Entry Point/ Search
http//iac.dtic.mil/resources_tems.html
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TEMSSearch Results
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DTIC Online Access ControlledFuture Gateway to
DTIC
https//online.dtic.mil
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DTIC Online Access ControlledPersonalization
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DTIC Online Access ControlledPersonalization
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DTIC Online Access ControlledPersonalization
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DTIC Online Access ControlledPersonalization
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DTIC Online Access ControlledSearch
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DTIC Online Access ControlledSearch Results
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DTIC Online Access Controlled
RE Portal, Private STINET, TEMS collections
and tools collapsed into single access controlled
interface
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Federal Voting Assistance Program (FVAP)

• Ms. Sandy Scroggs
• Project Lead and Customer Liaison
• Topics
• Federal Voting Assistance Program
• DefenseSolutions

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Federal Voting Assistance Program (FVAP)
About FVAP The mission of the Federal Voting
Assistance Program

• Inform and educate U.S. citizens worldwide of
  their right to vote
• Administer the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens
  Absentee Voting Act (UOCAVA) effectively and
  efficiently
• Foster voting participation
• Protect the integrity of, and enhance, the
  electoral process at the Federal, state, and
  local levels

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Federal Voting Assistance Program (FVAP)

• Created in 1997, FVAPs Web site was first hosted
  at the Pentagon, Washington Headquarters Services
  (WHS)

• Security VERY locked down

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Federal Voting Assistance Program (FVAP)
FVAP approached DTIC mid 2001 for hosting
http//www.fvap.gov/
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Federal Voting Assistance Program
(FVAP)Requirements/Problem Presented by Customer

• FVAP needed to be accessible worldwide to an
  estimated 6,000,000 U.S. citizens

• Active-duty Military
• Merchant Marine
• Public Health Service
• NOAA
• Family members (of the above)
• U.S. citizens living outside U.S.
• Work
• School
• Other reasons

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Federal Voting Assistance Program
(FVAP)Requirements/Problem Presented by Customer
FVAPs a highly visible site

• Constantly in the NEWS
• Good and
• Bad

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Federal Voting Assistance Program
(FVAP)Requirements/Problem Presented by Customer
FVAP site still needed security and a more OPEN
environment!
DTICs Solution

• Akamai services augments DTICs infrastructure
  during election years and provides
• Extra bandwidth to handle the heavier load
• Protection to FVAPs parent site located on DTIC
  servers
• Allows access to IPs that are blocked by other
  DoD services

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Federal Voting Assistance Program
(FVAP)Requirements/Problem Presented by
Customer

• FVAP needed to provide election information to
  U.S. citizen

Web site provides information on the

• Quickest way for U.S. citizens to request
  ballots and state specific information they will
  need
• Quickest way to deliver ballots to U.S. citizens

This site is for information only it is NOT
used for voting
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Federal Voting Assistance Program
(FVAP)Requirements/Problem Presented by Customer

• FVAP needed Usage Statistics

DTIC supplies Access Watch to our customers

• Usage Stats help FVAP provide
• Report to the President and Congress on the
  effectiveness of assistance
• A statistical analysis of voter participation
• Description of State-Federal cooperation

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Federal Voting Assistance Program
(FVAP)Requirements/Problem Presented by Customer

• Site redesigned to better focus on the VOTER

• FVAP came to us

• To implement design
• Add the content FVAP generated

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Federal Voting Assistance Program (FVAP)
http//www.fvap.gov/
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Federal Voting Assistance Program (FVAP)Current
Requirements/Problem Presented by Customer
Current FVAP needs from DTIC
Application written by Oct 2009

• To allow voter to request a ballot from their
  individual state
• Plus any individual state requirements
  information needed
• Have ballot and state specific information sent
  electronically to voter

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Federal Voting Assistance Program (FVAP)Testimony
We have received innumerable compliments
about the new site. As evidence of how successful
the website has been, there has been a remarkable
increase in online activity over past election
years. The new FVAP website has become an
enormously valuable resource to the millions of
voters worldwide and the Voting Assistance
Officers and local election officials who assist
them.
Director, FVAP
I used this site the very first time I
voted. I was in the Army and overseas. This site
made it so easy!
Michelle Seaward, Previous speaker
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About DefenseSolutions.gov

• Section 881 of the FY 2008 National Defense
  Authorization Act (NDAA)
• Requires DoD to have Clearing-House for Rapid
  Identification and Dissemination of Commercial
  Information Technologies

• The Under Secretary of Defense (USD) for
  Acquisition, Technology and Logistics (ATL)
• Tasked Director, Defense Research and Development
  (DDRE) Defense Technical Information Center
  (DTIC) to develop a capability that attracts
  non-traditional defense technology suppliers to
  do business with DoD

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About DefenseSolutions.gov
Out of two complimentary needs DoD CIO
developed partnership with ATL, DDRE and
DTIC to develop solution DoDTechipedia Part of
this is DefenseSolutions.gov
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About DefenseSolutions.gov
If you had a great IDEA you thought the military
could use

• What would you do?
• Where would you go?
• Who would you talk to?

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DefenseSolutions.gov Requirements/Problem
Presented by Customer
DoD is a mystery to non-traditional companies

• How DO you do business with DoD?
• What are the DoD needs?
• We dont have the resources or experience to
  compete the traditional Govt. Contractor way
• The acquisition process is soooo complicated

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DefenseSolutions.gov Requirements/Problem
Presented by Customer

• DoD is not getting access to all
• the capabilities of industry
• innovation
• We may be building capability that is already
  available - Are we re-inventing the wheel?
• Longer lead time to fulfill warfighter needs - Is
  there something already out there?

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DefenseSolutions.govDTICs Solution
DefenseSolutions.gov Web site
Provides companies that have never done business
with DoD a way in. ...A keyhole for unlocking
future sales and visibility
Links DoD to the innovation DoD needs
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DefenseSolutions.govDTICs Solution
DefenseSolutions.gov Web site

• Offers three paths to DoD Opportunities

Collaboration and Information Sharing
Find out How to Do Business with DoD
Propose an Idea
wiki
coming summer 2009
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DefenseSolutions.gov
http//www.defensesolutions.gov/
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DefenseSolutions.gov
http//www.defensesolutions.gov/
Select Theme Button To Review Needs
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DefenseSolutions.gov
Review Needs
Select Submit Button To See Submit Form
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DefenseSolutions.gov Idea Submittal Form

• Can Submit Idea or
• DRAFT submittal can be saved
• Allows submitter to log out, come back later to
  continue filling out the form, then submit.

DRAFT
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DefenseSolutions.gov Idea Management Process Flow

• Hitting the Submit button on form moves idea
  information to an Idea Management application
  (transparent to user from this point on).
• This starts the first step in the Review Process

If more information needed, we will ask you for
it
You are notified
Evaluate each idea
Technical Experts Review all Ideas
Not selected
submit brief Idea related to Theme topic via
website
You are notified
SME reviews idea(s)
Not selected
Ideas Retained for Reference Reappraisal
Enter award negotiations with DoD
Award
Transition of your capability to DoD
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DefenseSolutions.gov Application Tracks Idea
through Brokers Process

• Emails
• Auto generates to Submitter/Program Managers,
• Keeps log of email transactions in a History
  file

If more information needed, we will ask you for
it
You are notified
Evaluate each idea
Technical Experts Review all Ideas
Not selected
submit brief Idea related to Theme topic via
website
You are notified
SME reviews idea(s)
Not selected
Ideas Retained for Reference Reappraisal
Enter award negotiations with DoD
Award
Transition of your capability to DoD
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DefenseSolutions.gov Application Tracks Idea
through Brokers Process

• Status of Ideas
• Tracked through entire process by application

If more information needed, we will ask you for
it
You are notified
Evaluate each idea
Technical Experts Review all Ideas
Not selected
submit brief Idea related to Theme topic via
website
You are notified
SME reviews idea(s)
Not selected
Ideas Retained for Reference Reappraisal
Enter award negotiations with DoD
Award
Transition of your capability to DoD
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DefenseSolutions.gov Application Tracks Idea
through Brokers Process
Notes from Broker collected - Stored and
archived with each idea
If more information needed, we will ask you for
it
You are notified
Evaluate each idea
Technical Experts Review all Ideas
Not selected
submit brief Idea related to Theme topic via
website
You are notified
SME reviews idea(s)
Not selected
Ideas Retained for Reference Reappraisal
Enter award negotiations with DoD
Award
Transition of your capability to DoD
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DefenseSolutions.gov Application Tracks Idea
through Brokers Process

• Idea rejected?
• Sent to searchable archive database to be
  available for future use

If more information needed, we will ask you for
it
You are notified
Evaluate each idea
Technical Experts Review all Ideas
Not selected
submit brief Idea related to Theme topic via
website
You are notified
SME reviews idea(s)
Not selected
Ideas Retained for Reference Reappraisal
Enter award negotiations with DoD
Award
Transition of your capability to DoD
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DefenseSolutions.gov Application Tracks Idea
through Brokers Process

• Idea accepted?
• Sent to Subject Matter Expert, enter award
  negotiations and yipee, money?!

If more information needed, we will ask you for
it
You are notified
Evaluate each idea
Technical Experts Review all Ideas
Not selected
submit brief Idea related to Theme topic via
website
You are notified
SME reviews idea(s)
Not selected
Ideas Retained for Reference Reappraisal
Enter award negotiations with DoD
Award
Transition of your capability to DoD
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DefenseSolutions.gov SBIR Community Member
Comments
DefenseSolutions.gov

• Provides a clear and concise description of
  DoD needs. Topic themes will increase in the
  future.
• Idea Submittal form is fast, easy, brief and to
  the point. If more information is required, DoD
  will request it.
• Offers a superior advantage over other approaches
  by allowing ideas to be submitted at any time.

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Tracking, Budget Activities and Custom Sites

• Mr. Paul Kemble
• Project Lead and Customer Liaison
• Topics
• Tracking, Budget Activities
• DDRE Prize Competition

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Tracking, Budget Activities and Custom Sites

• Execution Performance Tracking System
• R2 XML submissions
• Congressional Budget Cycle Data
• DDRE Prize Competition

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Execution Performance Tracking

• Requirements
• Provide a tool for submission of approved
  proposal projects.
• Provide proposal POC the ability to update key
  data and report on expenditure of obligated
  funds.
• Provide ability to communicate with proposal POCs
  on proposal status and need to update
• Generate monthly management reports for tracking
  and reporting on obligated fund expenditures

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DTIC Solution

• DTIC Solution
• Created a dynamic database Web site for
  submission of proposals https//epts.dtic.mil/epts
  /homepage.htm
• Limited access to key personnel by using a role
  oriented registration and a Lightweight Directory
  Access Protocol (LDAP)
• Created custom report formats for monthly
  reporting
• Provide ability for site managers to create mail
  lists from the database

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Budget Cycle Overview
(A brief budget overview available on the help
page of this site and accessed through DTIC
On-Line public)
Legend

• POM Program Objective Memorandum
• BES Budget Estimate Submission
• PBR Presidents Budget Request
• HASC House Armed Services Committee
• SASC Senate Armed Services Committee
• HAC House Authorization Committee
• SAC Senate Authorization Committee
• AUTH Authorization Report
• APP Appropriation Report

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Comptroller R2 Exhibit Project Requirements

• 2010 BES (Sep 2008)
• Requirements
• Provide a solution that would allow Services and
  agencies to use their existing budget preparation
  systems where available to create and submit
  budget documents during the BES
• Generate a uniform budget document from Services
  and agencies that can be submitted to Congress
• The ability to validate submitted documents for
  content by data field to insure uniformity

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Comptroller R2 Exhibit Project Solutions

• DTIC Solution
• DTIC, in close collaboration with OUSD
  Comptroller has developed and hosts a DoD wide
  RDTE Budget Exhibit creation and publication
  capability.
• Establish eXtensible markup language (XML) as a
  standards based solution
• Uses an XML Schema (XSD) to define and validate
  content.
• Uses an XSLT (style sheet) to transform the XML
  document into a standard format PDF, for
  submission to Congress.
• DTIC created a Web based User Interface.
• For Components that cannot create XML documents,
  previously created in word.
• Analyzed past data submissions
• Ensure the stated project requirements met
  Congressional requests for additional information
  and a standard format.
• Defined the content in an XML schema (.xsd)
• Validation of document content specifics.
• Created a standard presentation format using an
  XSL to generate a PDF.

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Congressional Budget DataRequirements

• Requirements
• Provide a set of tools for collection, search,
  and display of Congressional DoD budget data.
• Provide access of the data where appropriate to
• Public, DoD military, DoD government civilians,
  and DoD contractors.
• Provide Congressional data in a timely and more
  user friendly format
• Data must be accessed or supplied, converted and
  posted within 24 to 48 hours of release to the
  Library of Congress
• Provide tools for budget/program analysis to
  provide data to DoD Senior Leadership or their
  staff
• Custom Web sites for data acquisition and query
• Provide reporting tools
• Custom reports designed for easy data display and
  download using spread sheet formats

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DTIC Budget Solutions

• Convert general budget data in searchable flat
  file formats
• Research Development Descriptive Summaries
  (RDDS) basic data search extracted form the
  comptrollers Green Book
• Import budget data files and create database
  tables
• Research Development Technology Engineering
  (RDTE) Data
• Dynamic database, linked to flat files, with
  simple queries and incorporation of trend
  presentation slides.
• Use OCR tools to convert PDF files to electronic
  spread sheets.
• Populate databases used for complex data query
  and reporting over multiple years
• Congressional budget data is searchable over
  multiple years, Services, agencies and report
  type. ( https//rdte.osd.mil )

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DTIC Budget Solutions

• Public Data in basic static tables
• DoD Congressional budget data in pdf and Excel
  formats (http//www.dtic.mil/congressional_budget/
  )
• General budget data in searchable flat file
  formats
• Research Development Descriptive Summaries
  (RDDS) basic data search (http//www.dtic.mil/desc
  riptivesum/ ) extracted form the comptrollers
  Green Book
• Focused limited access data sites
• Research Development Technology Engineering
  (RDTE) Data
• (https//rdte.osd.mil/plsql/re_portal/display_app.
  p_frameset?av_app_nmRDTE_BDGT)
• Dynamic database, linked to flat files, with
  simple queries and incorporation of trend
  presentation slides.
• Complex data query and reporting over multiple
  years
• Congressional budget database
• RDTE budget data is searchable over multiple
  years, Services, agencies and report type. (
  https//rdte.osd.mil )

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Customer Comments

• DTIC Provides
• Professional assistance in site design and usage
• Excellent support of customers and site managers
  in response to technical questions and site
  enhancements
• DTIC meets the data conversion timelines and
  provides accurate data in a timely manner
• Provide ongoing site support to users and site
  managers to provide continual process and site
  improvement

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DDRE Prize CompetitionCustomer Requirements

• Requirements
• Public facing Web site for promoting and
  communicating the competition to the general
  public
• Limited access database for competitor
  communication and tracking of teams and team
  members
• Limited access registration to register teams and
  to control documentation submissions
• Ability to create reports using the database
• Graphic capabilities for posting competition
  results, team, and event photographs

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DTIC Solution

• DTIC Solution
• Created HTML static public Web site
  (http//www.dod.mil/ddre/prize/ )
• Created a limited access database
• Online Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
  (LDAP) user registration and password
• Limited Access and administration by team role
  and responsibility
• Personal Identifiable Information (PII)
  encryption
• Use COGNOS business management tool for report
  generation
• Flexible design and implementation
• Graphic tools for documentation and promotion.
• Static tables with graphic inserts
• Automated photo galleries

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Customer Comments

• Appreciated DTICs expertise and guidance on site
  requirements, development and security.
• Use of the COGNOS tool along with the dynamic
  database made report generation very flexible.
• Pleased with the support and attention the
  project was given from inception through the
  final competition.

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Point of Contact

• Ms. Judith A. Berger, PMP
• DTIC
• 703-767-9139
• DSN 427-9139
• FAX [phone]
• jberger_at_dtic.mil

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Point of Contact

• Mr. Brian Doty
• Chief, Technology Project Management Division
• Defense Technical Information Center
• 703-767-8242
• bdoty_at_dtic.mil

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Point of Contact
Ms. Michelle D. Seaward DTIC 703-766-9129 mseaward
_at_dtic.mil https//rdte.osd.mil https//dtic-stine
t.dtic.mil/ https//tems-iac.dtic.mil/ Coming
Soon!! https//online.dtic.mil
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Point of Contact
Ms. Sandra Scroggs DTIC-AT 703-767-9140 sscroggs_at_d
tic.mil Presented http//www.fvap.gov http//www
.defensesolutions.gov
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Point of Contact
Mr. Paul L. Kemble DTIC-AP 703-767-9125 pkemble_at_dt
ic.mil Web Links http//www.dod.mil/ddre/prize/ ht
tp//www.dtic.mil/congressional_budget/ http//www
.dtic.mil/descriptivesum/ https//rdte.osd.mil ht
tps//epts.dtic.mil/epts/homepage.htm
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