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Sample Template

Community of Interest (COI)Steering Committee Kick-off

Date:

POC:

V1.0

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Purpose of the COI

Community of Interest: “A collaborative group of users who exchange information in pursuit of their shared goals, interests, missions, or business processes, and who therefore must have shared vocabulary for the information they exchange.”—CNSSI 4009, 26 Apr 2010

• Describe what information sharing problem this community will address (preferably in a single sentence)

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COI Membership• Describe key members / stakeholders• Should be Joint

– Across relevant Military Services, Agencies and Combatant Commands)

– Could include non-DoD government agencies, coalition partners, and commercial partners

• Should include:– Operators and Users– Resource Managers & Program Managers– Engineers– Subject Matter Experts

Membership: All producers and consumers of information relative to this COI are welcome and encouraged to participate.

Sample COI Governance Structure

WGsAdditional

Working Groupsas needed

Executive Board (FO/GO) Chair or Co-Chair

2 or 3 star level

1 star level Chair with 0-6/GS-15

membership

• Develop repeatable process to demonstrate COI products (e.g, COI vocabulary)

• Leverage core enterprise services

• Execute as risk reduction for next Pgm of Record (PoR) spiral

Steering Committee Forum (Chair or Co-Chair)

Joint ImplementationWorking Group(Appropriate

Lead/Co-Lead)

• Define & implement high level COI capability roadmap and schedule milestones

• Stand up Pilot WG as needed• Synchronize COI products with

existing processes (e.g., JCIDS, Acquisition, PPBE)

Data Management Working Group(Appropriate

Lead/Co-Lead)

• Develop shared vocabulary for a given problem area in accordance with the DoD Net-Centric Data Strategy

• Promote & review COI activities • Resolve cross-COI discrepancies

• Ensure appropriate participation• Act as primary COI POC• Track milestones & success criteria

Pilot Demonstration Working Group(Appropriate

Lead/Co-Lead)

May be collapsed

Mission Area & Domain Portfolio Managers

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Pilot Purpose

One sentence that describes the net-centric information sharing capability solution to the 9-12 month increment of the information sharing problem the COI pilot will demonstrate

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Pilot Scope1. What programs of record or other sources will advertise

data as a web-service IAW the agreed COI vocabulary?

2. Will value-added services be demonstrated? If so, which ones?

3. What network(s) will be used to demonstrate net-centric information sharing capabilities?

4. What joint exercise(s) or venue will be used to demonstrate net-centric information sharing capabilities?

5. What organizations are participating?• Operational representatives from data consumer

organizations• Engineers and acquisition representatives from data

producer organizations

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Scope of the Data Management Working Group Task to Support the Pilot

The Data Management WG will develop the community vocabulary that is necessary to support the COI pilot

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Sample COI POA&M

High-level Graphic with dependencies, decision points, and final demonstrated illustrated.

KickoffCOI

Stand upWGs

SelectPilot

CapabilitiesPlan

VocabDefined

InterimPilot

Capability 1st COIAnniversary

ServicesInventory

2nd Steering Committee

Meeting

3rd SCMeeting

4th SCMeeting

O&MPlan

IntegratePilot

into Ops

PotentialAgencyBudgetInputs

POA&M = Plan of Action and Milestones

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Sample Use Case

COI COI

Data Producers

Infrastructure:

NCES SOA Foundation

Data SharingSOA Foundation

Portal

Identity Store(Authentication)

Defense Online Portal

NCES Service Discovery

NCES Security Service

Other DOD

Other Consumers

Content Discovery

NCES Federated Search

A set of use cases that describe the capability the pilot delivers

DOD Consumers

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Sample COI Resources

Identify resources required to conduct the pilot.

Identify resources broken out by program of record that provides the resources (as a technical risk mitigation effort), and DoD or non-DoD Component that owns the program.

Identify resource shortfalls, impacts, and risk mitigation efforts.

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Sample COI Pilot MetricsMetrics to assess pilot return on investment (ROI)• Resources as well as net-centric information sharing

capabilities and agility• Consider what is convincing to “seniors”

Some ideas:

#1 Changes and impact to Programs of Record (POR) involved in the COI Pilot

#2 Initial and incremental costs of web service interfaces to advertise Program of Record (POR) data

#3 User assessment of demonstrated net-centric information sharing capabilities

#4 Feedback on ease of use and adoption of NCES pilot services

#5 Level of effort to agree on initial COI vocabulary

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Sample COI Spiral 1 Pilot Metrics

• Number of participating organizations

• Number of subscriptions

• Level of effort required for each program to interface with NCES– Level of effort required to service-enable a new data provider– Level of effort required to stand up a new consumer

• Operational impact of service outages

• Number of messages published per unit of time

• Level of effort required to train data producers and consumers on schemas and NCES

• Level of effort to develop and sustain schemas

• Size of schemas relative to cost and number of participants

• Number of programs extending schemas

• Level of effort required to register schemas

• Time required to search, discover, and filter published information