Interoperability Focus Day&Capability Focus Day

Advancing Interoperability In Defence: Monday 15 September 2008

Maximising the Sharing of Information

10.00 Welcome Remarks From The Chair:

Mark Reichardt
President and Chief Executive Officer
OPEN GEOSPATIAL CONSORTIUM (OGC)

10.15 An Analysis Of Whether Commercial Or Open Source Platforms Will Provide The Cuting-Edge Technology Required To Facilitate Interoperability Of Data

• Assessing the benefits of developing geospatial software through open source communities, including transparency of product and process, agility, stability and software quality
• Identifying the technical capabilities and direction of major open source geospatial software development efforts
• Examining the important link between open source communities and open standards for interoperability
• Methods of supporting open source communities

Joel Schlagel
Senior Research Scientist
US ARMY RESEARCH ENGINEERING CENTRE

10.55 Beyond Interoperability: What Are The Opportunities And Potential Enabled By The Adoption Of Universal Standards

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is an international industry consortium of 359 companies, government agencies and universities participating in a consensus process to develop publicly available interface specifications. Through its Specification Program, Interoperability Program, and Outreach and Community Adoption Program, OGC develops, releases and promotes open standards for spatial processing.

This presentation will focus on:

• Current status of convergence of international standards
• Opportunities and synergies created by the adoption and use of standards

Mark Reichardt
President and Chief Executive Officer
OPEN GEOSPATIAL CONSORTIUM (OGC)

12.10 Integrating Civilian And Military Geospatial Capabilities To Support Maritime Search And Rescue Operations

Robert Netsch is Project Manager for the Search And Rescue Optimal Planning System (SAROPS) at the U.S. Coast Guard Command and Control Engineering Center in Portsmouth, Virginia. He has a BS in Mathematics, MS in So��ware Engineering and has worked on numerous Command and Control, Electronic Charting and Geospatial systems over the last 20 years.

• Saving lives and property via improved operational planning and decision making
• Heightened Maritime Domain Awareness by visual fusion of local data and network services
• Increasing cooperation between key civilian and military organisations
• Probabilistic modeling of search object dri�� and search effectiveness

Robert Netsch
Command and Control Engineering Center
U.S. COAST GUARD

Advancing Collaboration and Cooperation to Maximise the Pool of Data Available

2.30 Facilitated Roundtable Discussion Panel: How Can Full Interoperability Be Achieved In The Military?

This interactive discussion will give you the opportunity to create dialogue with other delegates and speakers. The session will explore current and potential future strategies that can be implemented to advance collaboration and interoperability in defence.

Discussion topics will include:

• Collaboration to deliver the best actionable intelligence
• Assessing defence-defence and defence-civilian data sharing for potential conflicts of interest or adverse impact
• Increasing cooperation between key civilian and military organisations
• Challenges and strategies for Integrating intelligence from multiple country sources
• What are the technical and institutional issues that need to be overcome?

3.30 End Of Interoperability Focus Day

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Defense GIS – Towards Creating Enterprise Capability: Thursday 18 September 2008

Rationale:

This capability focus day will explore the implications of the increasing pervasiveness of GIS in the defense enterprise. Standards and interoperability enable the obvious foundation of enterprise implementation and support the increasing reach and relevance of GIS to the entire defense community. Current interests focus on enabling disparate workflows with a common resource management strategy that ensures all the different information types integrate into a common storage and dissemination environment.

During the morning session, we focus on the use of imagery in the enterprise. We introduce a comprehensive architecture for managing enterprise image information system’s workflow and illustrate how to use imagery and GIS to solve complex problems. We will present the geospatial tradecra�� exercise, GT 301, that demonstrates the value of a wide range of COTS geospatial technologies working together including enterprise imagery management to solve a focused defense-related intelligence problem.

After lunch, the presentations explore how to implement enterprise systems successfully. This will include the broad scope of GIS application and the importance of commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS technology) in defense. We will also explore how open source intelligence can be geospatially enabled. Finally, we discuss the lessons learned from successful applications in defense and the key importance of standards and interoperability in enterprise implementations.

Agenda:

09:00 Opening Remarks

John Day

09:10 Keynote: Bringing Imagery Into The Enterprise

Bill Harp

09:40 Demo: Geospatial Tradecraft 301 Part 1

Mark Romero

11:00 Demo: Geospatial Tradecraft 301 Part 2

Mark Romero

1:00 Keynote: The Broader Roles Of GIS In Defense

John Day

1:40 Integrating Open Source Intelligence With GIS Janes

2:20 Successful Spatial Information Infrastructures In Defense And Intelligence

John Day

3:10 The Key Role Of Standard And Interoperability In Defense GIS

TBD

3:50 Q&A

Our Masterclass Speaker

John Day is a former British Army officer with 30 years of experience in military engineering and geospatial projects that have taken him all over the world from counter-terrorism ac��vi��es in Northern Ireland, to providing geospa��al support in the NATO Corps headquarters in Sarajevo during deployment of the IFOR to Bosnia as part of the Dayton Peace Agreement. Since joining ESRI in 1997 he has been advising the US Defense and Intelligence Community on how emerging commercial GIS technologies and solu��ons translate to geospa��al systems. Specifically, Mr. Day has led ESRI’s efforts to promote and implement the Commercial Joint Mapping Toolkit, to provide geospa��al tools for US DOD C2I programs.

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