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Key Note Address to

Battle Management Language Symposium

Mr. Ron Bechtold Director, Army Architecture Integration Center

05 February 2009

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Purpose/Agenda

•  Purpose: –  Information Briefing on the Chief Data Officer Construct and

CIO/G-6 Architectural Efforts – Applicability to the Battle Management Language (BML)

Community

•  Agenda –  Setting accountability using Chief Data Officer/Data

Stewards – Governance Structure – Data Approach – Architecture Approach – Applicability to BML

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Setting Accountability using Chief Data Officer/Data Stewards

•  “ Chief Data Officer (CDO), or data “czar,” to shepherd data management practices”

LTG Sorenson, US Army CIO/G-6

AUSA Army Magazine Greenbook. OCT 2008

•  CDO Responsibilities: –  Developing, Implementing and Enforcing Army and

Federal Data Standards and the Army Enterprise Strategy.

–  Involved in the earliest stages of the acquisition cycle to ensure that data interoperability is considered

•  Approve and Certify Data Management processes and products as part of milestone decision reviews (MDR)

–  Establish and Execute a Two-Year Data Transformation Strategy

“Data Czar Leads Transformation”

•  Data Stewards (Senior Executive Service or General Officer level) will be identified by appointment letters

–  Have the authority to provide guidance, direct migration, consolidation, or retirement of applications and databases

–  Develop, publish, and implement a data transformation plan to support and align with the CDO transformation plan

–  Identify Authoritative Data Sources and register them in the Authoritative Data Source Registry –  Establish a baseline and identify and track success metrics for their individual functional areas in

coordination with enterprise metrics as established by the CDO –  Assign Functional Data Managers for capability areas/segments in their functional area –  Ensure that technology strategies are aligned with the business and administration processes and

warfighting strategies

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GUIDANCE

DECISION

COORDINATION & ANALYSIS

IMPLEMENTATION

• Strategy • Metrics

•  Data Transformation Plan (Roadmap) •  Manage Metrics •  Approve Authoritative Data Sources (ADS) •  Configuration Management

• Recommend • Harmonize

• Execute

Tasks

BML Community

BML Community

BML Community

BML Community

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ID Data Sources

ID Data Data Steward/

Functional Data Managers

Publish Web/Data Service

Register

Authoritative Accountable

Source A

Source B

Source C

Quality

Implement Quality

Best Practices

Army ADS

Registry

Publish Register

Data Mapping

MIT Total Data

Quality Management

Program

Perform Data

Maturity Assessment

s

Assess

DoD Discovery Metadata

Specification

Metadata Registry

Data Approach

Community of Interest – Use Cases

JIEEDO Biometrics Suicide Mitigation

Enterprise Dashboard

IT Asset

Global Strike Etc……..

Where does BML fit?

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CIO/G-6 Architecture Approach

Capability Set Development (2 Year Time Box)

•  Architecture Transformation

•  Aligned with Future Architecture Efforts

•  Multidisciplinary Approach (Community of Interest)

•  https://www.intelink.gov/wiki/Army_CIO_G6_Capablity_Set_Support

Methodology for Enterprise Transformation (MET)

•  Leverage Method for Business Transformation (MBT)

•  Endorsed by Federal Level

•  On www.core.gov

•  Army Enterprise Architecture Transformation

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Applicability to BML

Upon maturation, Battle Management Language (BML)……..one of several standards community selects based on needs

Baseline Environment (Today)

•  CADM

•  DoDAF

Retirement (Tech to eliminate)

•  PowerPoint

•  Big Printed Docs

Tactical Deployment (0-2 years)

•  Wiki/Blogs

•  Capability Sets

Containment (No new deployments)

•  TBD

Strategic (2-5 year)

•  Universal Core

•  C2 Core

Emerging (Tech to track)

• BML •  Geo BML