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The Role Of IT Modernization in DODThe Role Of IT Modernization in DOD

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AgendaAgenda

• Software Engineering Center Organization and Mission• SEC-B Business Mission Area Leaders for Enterprise

Activities• Why is IT Modernization important now and how we are

positioned to address the challenges• Decomposing the Modernization Problem• Enterprise Solutions Competency Center• Service Oriented Architecture Life Cycle Management

Model• Status and Challenges

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Continental US locations:

• Ft Sill, OK (Fire Support Systems) • Ft Huachuca, AZ (Intelligence Fusion Systems)• Ft Belvoir, VA (Enterprise Information Systems)• Ft Lee, VA (Retail Logistics and Acquisition Systems) • Chambersburg, PA (National-level Logistics Support)• St. Louis, MO (National-level Logistics Support)

Continental US Field Sites:

• Ft Gordon, GA; Ft Hood, TX; Ft Lewis, WA;• Ft. Bragg, NC; Eglin AFB, FL; Ft Detrick, MD

Outside the Continental US:

• Seckenheim, GE(European SW Support Office)

• Seoul, Korea(Korean SW Support Office)

• Baghdad, Iraq (SWA Support)• Field Software Engineers forward deployed

with units worldwide

CECOM LCMC Software OrganizationCECOM LCMC Software OrganizationFort Belvoir

Sec-BelvoirEnterprise SWE,SW Asset Mgmt,

SW Life Cycle Support

South Korea Europe,GermanySWA

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SEC-Belvoir…supporting the Army Enterprise• Technical leadership and expertise to support the Army’s transition to Network Centric

Warfare and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA).

• Established the Data Strategy (DS) Center of Excellence (CoE) to provide standardized data products to support shared use and interoperability

• Established and maintain the Army Enterprise Solutions Competency Center to provide consulting, education, and testing services for Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and SOA

• Provide technical expertise to members of the acquisition community developing SOA solutions:

• PM Future Combat Systems; PM Distributed Common Ground Station – Army; PM Battle Command

• Independent security testing for systems software including applications that ensure

all the security requirements are implemented.

• Provisionally designated as the agent for the Army Certification and Accreditation

• Contributor to DUSA-BT and ASA(ALT) Business Transformation initiatives

• Software Asset Management

• Software Quality Assessment

• Software Commoditization

• CMMI/Lean 6 Sigma Process Improvement

• Army Strategic Software Improvement Program (ASSIP)

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Logistics

SEC-B Software Enterprise Life Cycle SupportSEC-B Software Enterprise Life Cycle Support

FMIS

IGNET

CAISI//CTASC II

HOMES

ESD

CSED

PLMD

CTSF SW MFE SAM

OSD NII Acq Support

SW Clearing House

Software Asset Management

DTS

Budget

Security OfficeCustomer Support

MSD

HR

Enterprise Services DivisionProduct LicenseManagement Division

Client Systems Engineering Division Mission Support Division

Mission Areas

Enterprise Business Lab

Technical Consulting

Education

LAN

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Focus will be on software support and engineering to Army Focus will be on software support and engineering to Army IT based on DOD standardsIT based on DOD standards

• Fast paced IT market, both from a business and technology sense which undermines traditional research & acquisition efforts• COTS Testing alone takes too long and cost too much• No single body of knowledge from which a PM can judge competing

IT offerings• No single source for assessing risk, composibility and scalability• Current Assessment by GAO and OSD is greater than 72% failure

rate of IT programs (cost, schedule, performance, sustainability)

Why is IT Modernization important now?

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Decomposing the Problem Of Decomposing the Problem Of Modernization: Domain Areas of Modernization: Domain Areas of

Interest Within CECOMInterest Within CECOM

Warfighter MissionWarfighter Mission AreaArea

Business MissionBusiness MissionAreaArea

*A gross simplification but helpful in focusing organizations and missions

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Enterprise Solutions Competency Center Organization

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Education

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• Effective Training and Education/Senior Leadership Seminars

• Practice Area Reference Guides (ERP,SOA)

• Website Tutorials and Reference Tools• Army POC for DoN IMWG• Development of Technology Centric

Programs for Mid-level Officers• Coordination with Navy, USAF

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Consulting

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• Unbiased Subject Matter Experts• Consult on Army and Joint/DoD

Enterprise Solution Initiatives and Implementations

• Support Business Transformation• Direct support to CIO-G6,

ASA(ALT),PEO-EIS, and DUSA-BT

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Enterprise Integrated Business Environment

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• State-of-the-art Equipment• Army’s first business SOA

https://soa.army.mil/ • Software available for

demonstrating technology• Test Third Party Solutions• Research and apply Emerging

Technologies to problem domains• Army’s Enterprise Business Lab

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Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is critical to Army Transformation• Characteristics of the Army transformation

– Develop and deploy solutions against a more flexible architecture that can be More responsive to change Easier to maintain More efficient

– Transition from approaches that promote stovepipe solutions to those based upon SOA

– Avoid pitfalls that other implementations (e.g., ERP) have encountered

• Problem: DoD 5000 is not designed for agile Army acquisition of services/SOA.

• Problem: Army needs a mechanism to help manage the entire SOA lifecycle.

• Response– Provide a methodology that helps the Army make smart decisions about how

to integrate SOA

LCMM is providing a guide to support the Army transition to SOA

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LCMM is supporting the Army in LCMM is supporting the Army in implementing SOA implementing SOA

• Provides a consolidated place for Army-centric SOA methodology• Creates a living methodology with input from Army and other

sources• Includes SOA industry best practices • Educates Army personnel of all levels about service orientation

LCMM’s goal is enable the Army to make smart decisions about how to integrate SOA into the Army environment

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It’s not easy .. the LCMM addresses challenges It’s not easy .. the LCMM addresses challenges

the Army may face in its transition to SOAthe Army may face in its transition to SOA

Challenge Example

Cultural Shift Can organizations adopt the service-oriented paradigm?

How do we do SOA IV&V as an Army-wide practice?

Funding Issues Who pays for and who maintains the services?

Acquisition Issues Can we reconcile DoD 5000 with the more agile acquisition needed for many SOA projects?

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The LCMM has gone through several iterations, engaged The LCMM has gone through several iterations, engaged SOA Consortium, and continues to evolve …SOA Consortium, and continues to evolve …

• September 2007– Presented early LCMM draft to SOA Consortium (SOA-C SOA Army

Adoption Project)

• November 2007– Army officially joined the Object Management Group’s (OMG) SOA

Consortium

• December 13, 2007 – Presented LCMM Version 1.0 to the SOA Consortium

• March 12, 2008– Will discuss the coordination and cross referencing of the LCMM and

SOA-C Planning Framework for mutual benefit (evolving)

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The SOA Consortium/Army interaction presents a great opportunity for synergy

• The SOA Consortium (SOA-C)– Established the Army SOA Adoption Project– Agreed to an exchange of vital SOA information between the Army and the Consortium

membership

• The SOA-C mission is consistent with Army SOA Objectives – Achieving the benefits of service-oriented architecture requires significant changes for

both IT and business executives – Enterprise SOA practitioners would greatly benefit from a vibrant practitioner community

to drive local, business-driven, SOA success

• Cross referencing the SOA-C Planning Framework with the LCMM Business Roadmap provides an opportunity

– To synchronize the LCMM with industry practitioners– Inform the SOA-C through implementation of a SOA methodology within a government

environment

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The next versions of the LCMM will The next versions of the LCMM will expand on several areasexpand on several areas

• SOA and security• SOA and data• Agile methodology for delivering SOA services• Governance (organizational, design-time, and run-time)• Synchronization between SOA Consortium Implementation Planning

Framework (evolving)

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Roadmap

Model Driven Architecture

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Capability & Requiremen

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Performance& TPMs

Business Processes

Information & Data

System Architecture

Requirements

DeploymentInterfaces

Service Component

Dynamic Architecture

Features

Composing Applications at

Run-time Features

Principles of SOA Engineering

Principles of SOA Delivery

SOA Characteristics

SOA Funding& Acquisition

AcquisitionFunding

SOA Governance (organizational, design-

time, run-time)

Control Points

Business Rhythms

Promotions and Demotions

Agile SOA Methodology

Workflows

Event-driven Activities

Tasks

SOA and Data

Service

Data

Information

Application

Utilization

ComponentBusiness Roadmap

Major Activities

Service Enablement

Service Sustainment

SOA Methodology Framework

Framework Process

Organizational Entity

Discipline

Roles

Major, role-based entry

points

Major, role-based entry

points

Integrated Subject Areas

Integrated Subject Areas

SOA and Security

Threats

Protection Points

Services

Assurance

Using a discrete volume approach future releases, LCMM users can easily determine where to go for their specific needs

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Status and Challenges

Status• Closely couples with DISA NCES SOA-F program• Closely couples with US Army CERDEC Warfighter and SOA

foundational research• ASA(ALT) coordinating for review of SOA LCMM and potential cross

walk with Ultra Large Scale Computing analysis, software acquisition policy, software version blocking and deployment

• OSD ALT future review of SOA LCMM for potential impact on DOD regulations and policy

Challenges• Late adoption, early adoption paradox• Data Meister and communities of interest parochialisms• Shiny Nickel tendency in DOD

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Contacts

Colonel Thomas C. LoperCommander, CECOM LCMC SEC-Belvoir

thomas.loper@us.army.mil,703-806-3262

George (Chip) Raymond, Jr.Division Chief, Enterprise Services Division (ESD), Enterprise Systems Competency

Center (ESCC), SEC-Belvoir

chip.raymond@us.army.mil, 703-806-3527

LTC Willard (Bill) Robinson Branch Chief, ESD/ESCC SEC-Belvoir

bill.robinson@us.army.mil, 703-806-3570