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Room | Title, Speaker, Track

202 | Tele-Work, Ingenium - ET
Many organizations are looking to tele-work as a way to retain key employees and reduce operational costs. Some DOD departments faced with initiatives such as BRAC are hopeful that a successful tele-work strategy will allow them to retain their highly trained and experienced workforce. The key challenge is not the technology that enables messaging and collaboration for a remote workforce, but the organizational transformation necessary to make managers and their employees comfortable working apart. Ingenium is focused on the tools and processes that allow managers to have visibility into an employee’s workload and progress. While providing managers with key information, these tools also allow employees to quickly get feedback, stay in line with management objectives and reduce administrative tasks such as status reports and time sheets. Ingenium is focused on serving tomorrow’s tele-work needs with our process automation, task management and collaborative solution.

203 | Implementing a Services Oriented Storage Architecture, Brian Householder, Hitachi Data Systems - IA
Virtually all government agencies are faced with ongoing rapid growth of their data storage requirements and escalating storage management expenses. Using virtualization as the enabler of a Services Oriented Storage Architecture can enable guaranteed levels of service including built-in disaster recovery and continuity of operations capabilities with a demonstrable increase in productivity of storage resources.

204 | Fulfilling IT Mission Requirements through Small Business - How to Incorporate GSA’s Small Business - EIT
Governmentwide Acquisition Contracts into Your Acquisition Strategy, Jean Oyler, GSA
Revealing a new perspective on fulfilling your IT mission and socioeconomic goals – this seminar will spotlight GSA’s Government-wide Acquisition Contracts (GWACs) that are set aside for small technology firms. This seminar features an overview of GSA’s small business GWAC portfolio that includes 8(a) STARS, HUBZone, the newly awarded Veterans Technology Services (VETS) contract that is set aside for firms owned by service-disabled veterans and the upcoming Alliant Small Business GWAC. Designed for Federal procurement and IT project management professionals, this seminar takes the buyer through the contract structure beginning with definition, authority, scope and ordering procedures from the small business contract perspective. Attendees are eligible to receive 1.0 Continuous Learning Point (CLP) for this session.

205 | Ensuring Effective ERP Implementations through Highly Defined Software Requirements, John Vice, Borland Software - ERP
ERP projects are highly susceptible to cost overruns and missed milestones. This is largely due to the fact that the implementation and customization of today’s ERPs are based upon yesterday’s undocumented systems and processes, forcing many organizations to take a hard look at how they operate. Through use case modeling, IT organizations can more effectively define and communicate business processes to be implemented through ERP customization. This session will detail the difference between requirements management which is important for process control and requirements definition which is the key to ensuring your requirements are accurate and complete.
Topics will include: eliciting requirements efficiently and effectively, documenting process workflows and systems, using measurement indicators, reducing project risk, conducting your own RDM Self-Assessment.

206 | Actionable EA & SOA Transformation – Putting the Pieces Together, Steve Lahannas, Semantech Inc. - SOA
An ERP implementation is daunting enough when considered at that scale of the ECSS or DEAMS project. Implementing either of these ERP solutions is only part of the equation though – it must occur in the context of: the migration of hundreds of legacy systems, the deployment of modernized data architecture, and the evolution of the GCSS-AF data center environments to a SOA framework either compliant with or integrated to DISA’s NCES and NECC environments.
What tools, techniques or methodologies can prepare us for this level of complexity? How can one program manage all of these variables? This seminar will examine what an Actionable Enterprise Architecture is and how it can be applied to SOA Transformation and the coordination of COTS applications such as Oracle’s ERP Suites within the transformed SOA infrastructure.

307 | The Value of GCSS-AF, Major Andrew Nicklas, GCSS/Lockheed Martin - IT
What is the value proposition for GCSS-AF? How does it save the Air Force money, time, and personnel, while providing high quality information infrastructure?

308 | Open Architecture Transformation in the Navy, Tim Fain, IBM - SOA
The Naval Open Architecture Enterprise Team (OAET) was set up by the Assistant Secretary of the Navy to develop a strategy for incorporating Open Architecture business and technical principles into the Navy acquisition processes. The OAET, with membership drawn from each of the Naval domains (Air, Surface, Submarine, C4I, Space and Marine Corps) serves as one mechanism to support the transformation of the Navy’s system acquisition system. The OAET, assisted by IBM, recognized the need for a strategy to establish a governance structure. IBM worked with the domains to develop a strategy and implementation roadmap that addressed four facets of the strategy: a) Coordination across the Naval Enterprise; b) Change Management and Communications; c) OA Program Maturity; and, d) OA Infrastructure Implementation.

309 | Top 7 Elements for Successful ERP Reporting, Noetix Corporation - ERP
Learn the most important elements for gaining immediate data access to your ERP data. Set up a successful reporting solution for use across the organization and discover solutions for Oracle’s Enterprise Applications, including Oracle E-Business Suite and PeopleSoft, that can easily connect to legacy and other data sources. Leverage dashboards and Microsoft Excel, along with other familiar reporting tools, help users create their own reports. Make query and reporting tool setup automatic for super users and allow business users and executives to get the operational data they need.

310 | Deliberate and Crisis Action Planning and Execution Segments (DCAPES), Rick Carter, 554 ELSG/FP - ET
Since its fielding in March 2002, the Deliberate and Crisis Action Planning and Execution Segments (DCAPES) has served as the Air Force’s single Command and Control (C2) system to present, plan, source, mobilize, deploy, account for, sustain, redeploy, and reconstitute forces to meet Combatant Commanders’ requirements. DCAPES operations occur against the backdrop of the Joint Operations Planning and Execution System’s (JOPES) seven-phase deliberate and crisis action planning and execution process using core data resident in the JOPES Automated Data Processing database. As the Department of Defense’s C2 infrastructure evolves to the Net-Enabled Command Capability, DCAPES will contribute to achieving decision superiority via advanced distributive collaborative information sharing achieved through vertical and horizontal interoperability. Ultimately, this will enable the Joint Operations Planning and Execution community to collaboratively plan, execute, monitor and assess joint and multinational operations.

311 | Deployment Readiness Service (DRS) Pathfinder, Captain Frates, 554 ELSG/FP - ET
The Secretary of the Air Force has initiated Deployment Readiness Service (DRS) as a Pathfinder to exploit information transparency and transform the Air Force’s Information Systems development paradigm of legacy system integration to a modern web service integration Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) construct. The DRS was one of the first cross-functional Air Force initiatives to organize data requirements into nominal services, making it ideal as an Air Force Transparency Pathfinder. The purpose of DRS is to provide warfighters integrated and seamless services for managing deployment readiness. The pathfinder relies on a transparency process of ensuring information is shared (semantically via common vocabulary) which has driven the Air Force’s Authoritative Data Sources (ADSs) internally, to develop web services to exploit enterprise data. This pathfinder is the first step to determine how well information flows between existing systems in real time on demand for a limited number of uses. This is ideal since each of the ADS’s web services can be used by other enterprise applications without creating a brand new interface, enabling faster and cheaper creation of warfighter capabilities.

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202 | Application of Lean in a Government Laboratory Environment - AFSO-21
Dr. James R. Aldrich, Intergraph Corporation, and Mr. Larry Cooper, HQ AFRL/XRD
Lean has habitually been applied to the “known” processes. In manufacturing, you have specific inputs, specific requirements, and specific outputs. This presentation will show how Lean was applied in a government research facility where little is known except for the requirement. In addition, there will be a discussion of how metrics and watch indicators were applied in a qualitative environment.

203 | The Evolving Threat, Scott Paisley, IBM - IA
Today’s data protection methods may not be sufficient against new, malicious and profit-driven attacks This seminar delivers expert analysis of new hacking techniques and defenses against them from the IBM Internet Security Systems X—Force® research and development team. You will learn about protection strategies that offer a preemptive, defense-in-depth approach.

204 | Meeting Service-Disabled Veteran Goals through the Veterans Technology Services (VETS) GWAC, Jean Oyler, GSA - EIT
This session features GSA’s newest Governmentwide Acquisition Contract, or GWAC, designed to help Federal agencies achieve small business goals through the purchase of integrated technology solutions from small businesses owned by service-disabled veterans. Discover how VETS provides cutting-edge solutions without the expense and time involved in traditional set-aside procurements. This course will highlight the contract’s structure, scope, and ordering procedures and how to use the VETS website to locate contractor information, terms and conditions and pricing – all key elements of your acquisition strategy decision.
Attendees are eligible to receive 1.0 Continuous Learning Point (CLP) for this session.

205 | BPM and ERP: Best Practices for Results, David Seaver, PRICE Systems L.L.C. - ERP
Linking Enterprise Resource Management (ERP) estimates to Business Process Management (BPM) for historical data collection and analysis is the best and most accurate solution set to establish a strong back-end program within any government agency. This presentation highlights best practices for linking ERP to BPM by first reviewing some of the problems when applying classical software estimation techniques and processes to ERP applications, including Approach to size estimation for ERP; Reports, Interfaces, Conversions, Enhancements, and Forms (RICEF) evaluation; Customization; Deployment; Business process re-engineering.
Attendees will understand how ERP differs from other software development projects, as well as its similarities; will learn Process-to-Map existing estimation techniques to ERP estimates; and will learn about links to BPM to analyze results and track progress.

206 | Enterprise Architecture: The Prime Directive for SOA Implementation, Joseph J. Matis III, 554 ELSG/KSM - SOA
In today’s technical environment, software integration and data transparency form the crux of implementation conflicts. On one hand, we have business units striving for agile and dynamic automation in order to support ever-changing business needs. On the other hand, these same business units want to control all the data that the business unit might need or require in support of their changing environment.
How can one ensure a successful implementation and use of SOA? By simply following the keystone strategy or prime directive of preparing the necessary artifacts that describe the operational, technical, and system views central to the organization’s Enterprise Architecture.
Realistically, SOA implementations are not about software; rather, SOA requires a solid understanding of an enterprise’s business and the intricacies of the relationships that exist between business components. Therefore, when implementing SOA one must first develop a meaningful enterprise architecture that describes the processes and capabilities necessary to achieve the organization’s goals.

307 | Air Force Data Services and You, Randy Fernandez, GCSS/Lockheed Martin - IT
The Air Force Data Services (AFDS) encompasses a broad range of function pertaining to data storage and handling. The number and diversity of these functions can seem intimidating, but does not need to be. In this seminar, we will lay out what AFDS provides and how it can be exploited most effectively by both data providers and data users.

308 | Open Architecture Assessments - a Pilot at 653 ELSW at Hanscom, Tim Fain, IBM - SOA
Leveraging the Navy’s OA Transformation, IBM recently worked with representatives of the 653 ELSW in applying tools developed for the Navy’s Open Architecture Enterprise Team to an ongoing Air Force project. This review identified several steps that the Project Manager could take in a related, future acquisition that would result in a system that will be able to incorporate competitively-developed components and insert new technologies in a more cost effective and efficient manner. The lessons learned indicate that the Navy and Air Force can adopt a common approach towards reaping the benefits of Open Architecture: lower costs, increased competition, and greater interoperability.

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202 | Workforce Development in an Information Technology (IT) Environment, Kenneth Farkas, 554 ELSG/XR and Connie Sawdey, Sawdey Solutions - IT
Workforce Development in an Information Technology (IT) Environment, like the systems being acquired, is constantly evolving. The technologies and methods are rapidly changing and impact how the Air Force acquires and sustains new IT Systems and the sustainment of hundreds of legacy systems. This creates challenges for the organization as well as the acquisition management professionals to stay current on key topics and trends that could impact delivery of capability to their customers. This seminar will explore the process to maintain IT currency for Air Force program managers (1101 and 63XX personnel) through the use of the Air Force Career Field Education and Training Plan (CFETP) supplemented with specific IT related topics. The resultant processes identify a common core of capabilities in IT acquisition expertise and take into account Formal Education/Training, Follow-on Unit Training, and mentoring to establish a well trained and educated IT acquisition workforce.

203 | Beyond ERP: Establishing Technical Standards and Making the Most of Your Investment for the Future, Todd Cameron, Accenture - ERP
The Armed Forces and numerous Defense agencies have started implementing Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solutions as part of their business processes. As those solutions are completed and integrated, leveraging the ERP investment to include standards for enterprise technical architecture and tools can increase the return on investment. In this business seminar, attendees will learn how the Armed Forces and Defense agencies can leverage ERP investment as a platform to standardize their business processes, establish standards for their Service Oriented Architectures (SOAs) and comply with DOD process/data standards.

204 | ANSI/EIA-859 Data Management Standard, Thomas L. Tesmer, CMstat - EIT
ANSI/EIA-859, the newly released Data Management Standard encompasses the creation, distribution and management of CDRLs and SDRLs and associated Contract data for Government entities, Contractors and Sub-Contractors.
TPT Technologies, Inc. works closely with the Government Electronics Industry Association committees developing Configuration Management (CM) and Data Management (DM) Standards.
Epoch DM is a newly released COTS software system from TPT Technologies, Inc. developed to the new 859 DM Standard, and further enhanced to not only manage traditional CDRLs and SDRLs, but any type of deliverable data associated with a Contract.
This seminar is a brief overview of the importance of the new ANSI/EIA-859 Data Management Standard and our approach to providing Government and Industry a commercially available solution for adherence.

205 | How Evolving Technologies Will Impact ERP Integration and Interoperability, Gene Pierce, ECSS - ERP
This presentation will provide an overview in how technologies have and will continue to impact Enterprise Resource Planning systems today and in the future. Such ERP components may be from the same COTS vendor and others may not. How are such components integrated seamlessly and how & why are others not so seamless? How does this impact sustainability and overall cost of ownership? How will the promise of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) tools and techniques have an impact over tightly integrated ERP packages? Can we have tightly integrated while at the same time loosely coupled architectures? This and more will be covered in this exciting session.

206 | SOA for Leaders, Anthony Bradley, Gartner - SOA
SOA has emerged from the trough of disillusionment and is climbing the plateau of productivity as more mainstream successes are achieved. However, “bad SOA” is still prevalent. Leaders must understand SOA concepts and best practices to effectively guide execution and achieve desired mission and business value. This presentation covers the fundamentals of SOA, how to gain mission and business value, an exploration of SOA successes and failures, and the evolution of SOA over the next five years.

307 | GCSS-AF Security: ABAC, etc., Vince Forester, GCSS/Lockheed Martin - IT
Security is the one key required service area for applications using GCSS-AF. This seminar will discuss the GCSS-AF security architecture, including leading-edge security capabilities such as ABAC.

308 | Applying Knowledge Management to Manage Your Human Capital, Dr. Anthony Rhem, A.J. Rhem & Associates, Inc. - KM
As more and more government personnel begin to retire and transfer out of their jobs, there is an ongoing need to capture and manage this expertise before it leaves an agency. People are an agency’s most valuable organizational asset. Losing this asset will directly affect an agency’s ability to perform and meet the expectations of the people they serve. A proven method to address this exodus of experience is to apply Knowledge Management (KM) principles, practices and techniques to transition knowledge to individuals and systems. This presentation will give government organizations an understanding as to how KM can be applied to manage your human capital assets.
In the presentation attendees will learn the following: What and Where are Your Human Capital Assets, Human Capital Challenges Facing the Government, How KM can be Applied to Address Human Capital Challenges, Capturing Knowledge to be used in a KMS, Current State of Human Capital Management.

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202 | Business Continuity Planning/Continuity of Operations (BCP/COOP), David Riley, 643 ELSS/EIEXD - IT
Air Force organizations must have executable plans in place and be prepared to perform Mission Essential Functions (MEF) from an alternate location for up to 60 days as required by regulation and by Senior AF leadership. BCP/COOP is a top down approach to meet this requirement. The BCP/COOP approach consists of four phases: 1) Impact analysis to determine the impacts of an interruption and the requirements to continue performing MEFs, 2) Plan development to meet the requirements defined in the impact analysis phase, 3) Plan testing and implementation to validate the plans are executable, and 4) On-going plan sustainment via annual MEF reviews, threat and risk changers, and plan revalidation and testing.

203 | DITSCAP to DIACAP Migration Experience and Discussion, Dr. Thomas Gist, Advanced Technology Systems - IA
Results of one of the first efforts in the Air Force to obtain Certification and Accreditation through the Defense Information Assurance Certification and Accreditation Process (DIACAP) will be presented. Emphasis will be on comparing and contrasting the previous Defense Information Technology Certification Process (DITSCAP), DIACAP as it is in theory, and DIACAP as it was found to be in practice. Areas discussed will be differences in the fundamental natures of DIACAP and DITSCAP, actions needed in theory to complete DIACAP, the actual tasks needed for the example program, weaknesses found in DIACAP in practice, and suggestions on how to avoid similar issues in using DIACAP for other programs.

204 | Introducing PLM – Program Lifecycle Management, Steve Lahannas, Semantech Inc and James Ransdall, Accept Software - EIT
Every project represents a collection of processes, those processes; interact across time within Lifecycles. Projects facilitate the development of products (or systems). A portfolio can consist of multiple projects and a program can have oversight over multiple portfolios. What do all of these elements have in common? Requirements. All of the major process methodologies: Object Oriented RUP, CMMi, Agile development or Waterfall lifecycles differ mainly in one respect – the manner in which requirements are handled. Program Lifecycle Management is the first methodology built from the ground up to accommodate both the vertical coordination or integration of projects within their natural hierarchies as well as the necessary horizontal flexibility to support multiple design philosophies using a single semantic model. PLM is designed from the ground up to automate all aspects of project data. This presentation will explain how complex USAF projects such as ECSS & DEAMS can utilize PLM to redefine how IT projects are managed.

205 | Legacy Data Challenges on the Road to ERP Implementation, Diane Tompkins, ECSS - ERP
There are unique data challenges to migrating from a heavily customized legacy system environment consisting of over 400 legacy systems into a single, integrated, COTS-based ERP environment. This presentation will address some of the difficulties in identifying the authoritative source of the data; determining the quality of the data, from both the point of view of the current user and from the definition of data quality between multiple, disparate user groups; and approaching the issues involved in combining the data from multiple systems into one, integrated environment. This presentation will describe how the Expeditionary Combat Support System (ECSS) Data Team is using processes, data criteria, personnel, and tools to address these issues in implementing the COTS-based Air Force ERP.

206 | Security Considerations in a Service Oriented Architecture, Juan Duque, Justin Thomas Ree, Peter Clay, Deloitte Consulting LLP, Hq AFMC/A4R - SOA
The rapid increase in the implementation of Service Oriented Architectures (SOAs) in the federal government is a driving force that is definitively changing the way that Information Assurance (IA) and Information Security (IS) requirements and standards are being implemented in automated data processing environments. The devolution of the application in a SOA model has changed the focus of IA/IS processes from being application driven to an enterprise risk approach. This transition has led to significant confusion in many organizations as they struggle with maintaining their desired security posture while functionally eliminating specific security processes and procedures. In fact it may be stated that this transition process may actually be increasing risk to the data in the short term as the lines and concepts of requirements and authority are blurred or removed entirely. This presentation addresses the relationship between federal security requirements and SOA architecture, provides theoretical and real world examples of security considerations and provides a basic case study addressing those issues.

307 | Data Services - New Capabilities, John Jaster and Teal Walker, GCSS/Lockheed Martin - IT
This isn’t your old Data Services anymore. Come see some of the exciting new capabilities and solutions that GCSS-AF Data Services has completed over the past year. See the family of A4 LIMS-EV capabilities, production instances of Rich Internet Application (RIA) capability in the GCSS enterprise. Come see the Data Quality Dashboard capability, a major first step in the automation and improvement of data quality in the warehouse. Come see the new profiling and alerting capability about to enter the production environment, the first step in business rule defined capability solutions.

308 | Cost and Business Impacts of Service Oriented Architecture, Arlene Minkiewicz, PRICE Systems L.L.C. - SOA
A service-oriented architecture (SOA) approach takes advantage of networking capabilities to integrate applications in a way that is independent of architecture, programming language, development platform, or vendor. Through a set of standard interfaces, services (or software-based capabilities) are available to anyone willing to follow the rules for interface and consumption. Taking advantage of SOA promises great technological leaps for anyone looking to create interoperable, scalable applications that cross boundaries. SOA is the direction required for the Department of Defense’s (DOD) net-centric, System of Systems initiatives.
This presentation will offer some suggestions on the information and methodologies necessary to help determine how business practices need to change to accommodate this world, how we solve the problems of ownership and governance, and where the funding is going to come from. The first section will provide an overview of what an SOA is and how SOAs are likely to figure prominently in a net-centric world. In the second section, Arlene Minkiewicz will discuss the technical challenges and implementations along with their associated cost drivers. The third section will address business practices – how they need to change in a service-oriented world, and specifically, how these changes integrate with DOD policies and best practices. The final section will make recommendations on areas for further study with respect to the whole lifecycle affordability for SOA.

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202 | Improving Trustworthiness of Enterprise Data for Decision Making, Dave Becker, 643 ELSS/EIE (MITRE) - ET
The AF is heavily dependent on data for transaction processing and decision making. Good quality data (accurate, precise, complete, consistent, timely and authoritative) is needed for good decision making and transaction processing. Low quality data can lead to bad decision making and transaction processing. Poor data quality can potentially lead to catastrophic program failures, while simultaneously causing the expenditure of millions in unnecessary operating costs. The project objective is to define, capture and use the semantics of data quality to improve local and global decision making and information processing.
The presentation will explore the Architecture of Data Quality; Metadata Management, Ontology/Metamodel for Data Quality; and the utilization of semantic web (i.e., COTS) tools (i.e., data profiling) as common framework in a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) environment.

203 | Develop and Sustain Warfighter Systems, Brig Gen Janet C. Wolfenbarger, USAF HQ AFMC/A2/5 - ET
Develop & Sustain Warfighting Systems (D&SWS) is an Air Force Smart Operations for the 21st Century (AFSO21) core process that uses continuous process improvement to achieve a future state of effective, efficient and agile integrated life-cycle management of warfighting capabilities across the entire AF enterprise.

204 | IT Best Practices for Enterprise Acquisition, Dr. Cheryl Mason, Lighthouse Technologies, Inc. - EIT
The foundation for an IT Best Practices Enterprise Acquisition begins months prior to the actual Enterprise selection process. The first step in the process begins with the establishment of overarching transformational business objectives by senior management. Using these established business objectives, the next step is the development of both technical and functional goals for the enterprise acquisition. A parallel step of equal importance to the process is the Fit-Gap Analysis. The Fit-Gap Analysis focuses on three key areas: process workflow gaps, functional gaps, and data gaps in relationship to the existing “As Is” Model. Utilizing the functional and technical goals in conjunction with the Fit-Gap Analysis results, step four creates a “To Be” Model. This “To Be” Model, constructed through business process engineering, is the foundation for the last step prior to the enterprise selection, which is the requirements development step. The requirements are developed using the data from the prior foundational steps to make the most informed enterprise acquisition possible, through incorporating IT best practices.

205 | ERP Business Transformation, Eric Rudie, Oracle - ERP
Having an accurate, consistent 360-degree view of data is vital to support the mission of the U.S. Air Force whether that data is from packaged (i.e., ERP), legacy or custom applications. Master Data Management is a combination of applications and technologies that consolidates, cleans, and augments this organizational master data, and synchronizes it with all applications, business processes, and analytical tools. This results in significant improvements in operational efficiency, reporting, and fact-based decision-making. Learn how to achieve maximum value through the use of tools the U.S. Air Force already owns to manage enterprise data both inside and out of the ERP systems. Also understand how the tools can apply ERP data quality rules to cleanse data entering the ERPs and facilitate efficient data transfer leaving the ERPs.

206 | Implementing Data Governance for Effective Enterprise Transformation and Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Nancy Hearrell and Bob Dein, Haverstick Government Solutions - SOA
Data governance concentrates on effectively managing processes, technology, and personnel to promote shared data as a transparent strategic asset that requires ownership, accountability, and a common understanding among stakeholders across a relevant user community. Most business functions employ some degree of data governance that suits their specific purposes. However, when sharing data with other functions or external organizations within a “community of interest,” the differing organizational standards cause interoperability challenges that ultimately cost time, effort, and money to overcome. This stovepipe approach often results in a complex web of point-to-point interfaces that can only accommodate limited data sharing and constrains the enterprise view of data necessary for the desired data-centric environment. Employing an effective data-centric enterprise architecture eliminates data stovepipes, complements enterprise transformation, and facilitates SOA initiatives. Organizations with a logically structured, systematic evolution plan enjoy more success than those forced to change by emerging, often unexpected events.

307 | Air Force Portal Cutting Edge, John Rhodes and Mark Southard, GCSS/Lockheed Martin - IT
The Air Force Portal is more than just a website. It includes a range of key features that enable warfighters and other users to gather and use the information they need quickly and easily. The range of these capabilities is being extended, and this seminar will focus on some of the “cutting edge” capabilities that are available through the Portal, including collaboration technologies.

308 | Monitoring Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) with Oracle’s GRID Control, Rick Rumsey, CACI - SOA
How do we capture the health and performance of our Oracle Ecosystem? How do we ensure our Service Level Agreements are being met? This presentation will present numerous metrics that can be utilized to ensure Business Applications, Application Servers, Databases, Hosts and Operating Systems are performing to the established Service Level Availability as specified in a customer’s defined Service Level Agreement. This presentation is for administrators, program and project managers.

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202 | Asset Management, Service Management, and Configuration Management - Is There a Difference Anymore, Sean Tierney, IBM - AM
There is a revolution happening where traditional asset management disciplines are colliding with new service management practices. And between the two of them, configuration management initiatives are throwing things into further confusion. Traditional silos of management practices are being broken down as technology infiltrates what were thought to be independent business practice areas. Expectations are that it is going to get worse as more assets join the network outside the control of IT Asset Managers. In this session, attendees will learn how these silos are converging and how they can leverage the advances in individual market silos to make dramatic improvements across all areas of the organization.

203 | Compliance on Contract - Enabling Operational IT Compliance Through Network Access Control, Richard Langston, Symantec Corporation - IA
Network access control technology promises to dramatically reduce both the number and severity of security events and aid in regulatory compliance. Although there is a significant amount of uncertainty surrounding the direction of NAC standards, a growing number of technologies have emerged that deliver on the promise of NAC today by enforcing policy via a variety of network protocols and access methods. This flexible approach to the challenge helps ensure the success of implementation as well as IT investment protection.
In this presentation, attendees will explore the components of a NAC approach that ensures operational IT compliance on contact, including the following: the role of security policies for network access, the importance of support for multiple access methods, the value of enterprise-class scalability and manageability, the need for information management tools for segregation of policies and management functions, the significance of support for flexible deployment strategies and extensible, customizable policies, and the value of multi-vendor, open solutions that support both current and future technology components.

204 | ITIL V3 Managing IT From a Mission Impact Perspective, Tim Hadden, Quest Software - EIT
An increasing number of organizations are adopting Business Service Management (BSM) strategies to support their efforts to adhere to the IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) framework, including the Department of Defense (DOD). These best practices across the DOD are aimed at making military IT departments more responsive to their end-user needs and more accountable for the quality of service they provide. To do this, an IT organization must develop meaningful internal and external Service Level Agreements (SLAs), and ensure compliance with these SLAs. IT professionals must also establish a BSM architecture which permits continuous process improvements. The main focus of the presentation will be how the newly released ITILv3 plays a role in automating ITIL initiatives and how automating industry best practices can apply to military implementations.

205 | Ingenium Software Factory, Ingenium - CET
With the cost of building custom software escalating every year and the low success rate for large system integration programs, many organizations choose to keep their legacy systems for as long as they possibly can. Many of these organizations find themselves struggling to maintain unsupported platforms and find developers and analysts proficient in obsolete technologies. Ingenium has been working with our partners to develop a streamlined approach to quickly, accurately and inexpensively convert/migrate legacy applications to modern application platforms such as J2EE and .NET. This approach “The Ingenium Software Factory” utilizes best of breed tools in security and Q/A analysis and one-of-a-kind capability for automated software re-engineering. The Ingenium approach allows organizations to leverage the business capability already engineered in their multi-million- dollar legacy applications while reaping the benefits of a more capable, secure and feature-rich application platform.

206 | Service Oriented Architectures, Paul Liesenberg, Cisco Systems, Inc. - SOA
In the Air Force’s complex, globally distributed operational environment, decision makers face a number of unique challenges, including how to connect their mission and IT architectures.
Cisco Systems® has played a leading role in redefining the network with its Service Oriented Network Architecture (SONA) for integrated services. SONA helps government agencies advance their existing infrastructure into an intelligent information network needed to support new and evolving IT strategies. This discussion will give an overview of the Service Oriented Network Architecture and its applicability to the Air Force mission.

307 | GCSS-AF ESB: Enabling Information Integration, Paul Gervais, GCSS/Lockheed Martin - IT
The Enterprise System Bus (ESB) is the backbone of technical communications and information integration on GCSS-AF. Find out what the ESB is, how it works, and how Air Force applications should design to make use of it.

308 | Air Force Knowledge Now in the Air Force Portal, Randy Adkins and Douglas Brook, AFKN/Triune Group - KM
The Air Force Knowledge Now program is leveraging collaborative technology to improve knowledge sharing across the Air Force enterprise. Specific examples include FM Combat Comptroller, USCENTAF Central Processing Site, MAF Loadmaster and Rigger Aerial Delivery Operations, and ACC Security Forces communities.
Moving into the Air Force Portal will provide several benefits to the AFKN program including easier creation of communities and user accounts as well as Instant Messaging capabilities. During this session we will provide a program overview and a portal migration roadmap.

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202 | Transforming Public Sector Enterprises with LSS and Strategic IT Tools, IBM - ET
Government agencies can realize significant enterprise-wide transformation utilizing Lean Six Sigma (LSS) methodologies and supporting information systems. IBM is an industry leader in the Public Sector for LSS and technology strategy implementations. This presentation will demonstrate IBM’s approach for developing and implementing LSS change strategies and enterprise-wide implementation plans. We will discuss the potential of various IT tools and applications for project management, modeling process flows and value stream mapping, and IBM’s Websphere Business Integration (WBI) Modeler for business modeling, simulation, and analysis. We conclude that utilizing LSS and key IT applications in concert yields tangible results in continuous process improvement efforts, which enable agencies to provide services and fulfill their core missions faster, more efficiently, and effectively.

203 | Threat from Insider Use of Steganography on the GIG, James E. Wingate, Backbone Security - IA
A fundamental objective of network centric operations and warfare (NCOW) is to push information needed by warfighters to users at the edge of the network. Accordingly, the theme of the ongoing transformation to NCOW is “Power to the Edge.” Presuming that “information” translates to “power,” one consideration for pushing more information (power) to users at the edge of the network is that the insider threat will increase exponentially. More insiders will have access to more operationally sensitive and classified information than ever before. Insiders could easily use an ancient technique for information hiding called steganography that has evolved into digital steganography in the Internet era. Digital steganography applications can be used to exfiltrate sensitive or classified information in computer files by hiding those files inside of other seemingly innocuous files. This presentation describes the threat from insider use of steganography and provides a new approach to detecting insider attempts to download or use steganography in a malicious manner.

204 | Best Practices in Business Process Management - EIT
Dr. Vikram Sethi and Dr. Praveen Chawla, Wright State University/EDAptive Computing, Inc
Business Process Management (BPM) has become critical to the Department of Defense and the USAF in enabling the war fighter through efficient business processes. While significant investments are being made in ERP systems, a focus on integrated and connected business processes is required to provide best-in-breed service and enablement.
The session will present best practices in BPM. Wright State University and EDAptive Computing, Inc. will demonstrate the capability to efficiently model and automate new processes, and compare partially-automated processes with full-automation. RFID-enabled processes within the DOD supply chain will be used as examples to demonstrate the power of modeling business processes.

205 | Orchestrating Enterprise Business Transformation Across Complex Organizational Boundaries: Best Practices in ERP and Application, Lt Col Bradley T. Riddle, USAF Contract Management, Mr. Dheeraj Kulshrestha, Industry-Flairsoft - ERP
The panelists will discuss challenges and opportunities that an ERP implementation presents in optimizing the operational efficiencies of an organization. Best practices from IT combined with strategic vision, alignment of processes, and people to best facilitate the transformation are key to the true success of such initiatives. Successfully leading such missions to completion will require leveraging best practices in acquisition and software engineering through continued executive sponsorship, aggressive requirements management and proactive risk mitigation to ensure timely delivery of quality solutions.

206 | Data Encryption within the Storage Ecosystem, Eric Hibbard, Hitachi Data Systems - SOA
As new regulatory and legal requirements surrounding data ‘indiscretions’ continue to emerge and the penalties become more severe, many organizations, including federal agencies, are exploring various encryption options to better protect their data. To help solve these growing data protection and security challenges, government organizations must plan accordingly and select the right technologies to minimize their risk. This session focuses on the efforts required at the storage system level to create a successful encryption strategy. Best practices along with factors to consider are presented for protecting storage management, data in-flight, and data at-rest. This session also provides expanded coverage on encrypting data at-rest, including a step-by-step approach.

307 | Why and How You Want to Stay On Edge, Kris Singer and Tony Tran, GCSS/Lockheed Martin - IT
“Edge Services” – what are they, and why should AF developers care? The range of edge services available on GCSS-AF today goes far beyond simple edge caching. This seminar will present the case that edge services are literally the “leading edge” of what AF business services owners and designers should factor into their plans – properly utilized, they can help business services be more responsive, perform better, and even be more secure. It will include discussion of effectively designing services using Ajax and RIA, among other things.

308 | Data Analysis and Visualization in Material Sciences, Tom Simpson, Innovative Management & Technology Services - KM
This seminar will discuss the unique challenges and solutions encountered in visualization and imaging of materials science data. In material science, the characteristics of imaging hardware and the experimental material are both highly variable. This means that new applications commonly require you to re-solve the entire data pipeline from data collection through to final visualization. Our approach with materials sciences data is to adapt tools and processes that have evolved from past progress in medical imaging. As we work with different materials, we build a toolkit of components that can be re-used. While generic, automated techniques are rarely appropriate, one can establish interactive, general approaches. This seminar will include related enabling technologies such as data collection, file formats, data storage, and visualization hardware. We will also look at different classes of visualization, including 2D, 3D and immersive reality, and will touch on how visualization is being used in other industries.

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202 | Dynamic Publishing to meet USAF Needs to Author, Manage and Publish Technical Data, Charles Cartwright, PTC - IT
To meet the authoring, management and publishing needs of the USAF, Dynamic Publishing requires a comprehensive set of tools and concepts to improve quality, speed, accuracy and flexible re-use. Today’s authoring needs can best be met by an SGML/XML system for content creation that incorporates an integrated solution for text and graphics. In turn, this information requires a sophisticated content management solution so users can easily share and exchange data. And finally, an SGML/XML publishing solution is needed to publish required information to a variety of formats in different media. PTC’s presentation will examine how Dynamic Publishing can provide the infrastructure necessary to meet the needs of traditional publications, DITA, S1000D or many other existing and anticipated formats, specifications, or implementations.

203 | Why Stop at a Standard Desktop Configuration – Enforcing User Behavior Requires Standardization Too!, Jeff Waters, Securify - IA
Both the DOD and civilian agencies are being mandated to adopt standard desktop configurations across all Windows PCs. This is a sensible requirement as it establishes a baseline configuration so security is maintained in a much more organized and efficient manner. Federal agencies should also apply this logic to the adoption of a standard set of controls to enforce appropriate user behavior on networks government wide. In other words, to combat problems such as Insider Threats, Personally Identifiable Information loss, etc., best practices should be employed that define acceptable behavior – specifically defining who can access critical systems, what they can do with these systems and from where on the network they can do it. Once these standards are in place, identity-based monitoring could be efficiently employed to provide DOD and civilian agencies the situational awareness needed to assess whether users were adhering to this established standard “user behavior configuration.” This presentation will delve into the various mandates and standards and how such enforcements can increase network security, especially when it comes to user behaviors on mission-critical systems.

204 | NASIC Digital Production, Daniel Gerogosian, NASIC - EIT
The SAVANT digital production system transforms and modernizes the entire organizational capability to analyze, predict, capture, convey, and disseminate information. This system includes a Knowledge Pre-positioning System (KPS) that allows all forms of intelligence content to be stored, tagged, managed, and maintained. The Virtual Production System (VPS) generates live products rendering content from any repository (including KPS) in virtually any layout. The Virtual Intelligence Product Retrieval Environment (VIPRE) provides content discovery, execution of applications, and delivery of intelligence data, using web services based on open commercial standards. The Threat Modeling and Analysis Program (TMAP) captures the analytical results of threat performance and behavior in integrated dynamic models that can be readily translated into client-specific simulations or database formats. NASIC based the SAVANT system design largely on commercial off the shelf software (COTS) and commercial open architecture standards. The use of SAVANT is not constrained by any specific type of content nor is it dependent on any vendor proprietary solutions; thus it is widely extensible to a variety of applications.

206 | Using Enterprise Architecture to Drive the Investment in Service-Oriented Architecture, Robert S. Ellinger, Ph.D. and Steven A. Warner, Ph.D., Northrop Grumman - SOA
One promise of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is its ability to provide business process agility to an organization. SOA implementations that ignore policies, governance, and sound business decisions will offer only marginal successes. ID-SOA™, created by Northrop Grumman Corporation, will enable the Department of Defense (DOD) and other federal departments to achieve business agility by making more optimal IT investment decisions. This methodology supports the organization’s vision, mission (or charter), strategies, and processes for achieving the mission using Service-Oriented Architecture. This is not a “silver bullet” and it is not new technologies or processes. Instead, ID-SOA™ coordinates and formalizes processes and activities most departments and sub-organizations of the US Federal Government already perform. ID-SOA™ uses enterprise architectural models of the Federal Enterprise Architecture (FEA) and the views of the Department of Defense Architecture Framework (DoDAF) to enable and support the investment process. This one-hour seminar will outline the concepts of ID-SOA™ as related to how enterprise architecture can drive investment in SOA to enable the organization to more optimally achieve its mission.

307 | Finding What You Need in the Air Force Infospace, Harvey Reed, GCSS/Lockheed Martin - IT
We all know that it is easy to drown in the amount of information that is available to Air Force users and applications. One of the key means of taming this constantly enlarging “infosphere” is the Discovery Services provided by GCSS-AF, along with the Air Force MetaData Environment (MDE), which helps to structure and organize information about information. This seminar will survey the area of Discovery and the MDE, to show how it helps you find what you need when you need it.

308 | Converting Legacy Systems to the GCSS-AF Integrated Framework, Mike Whitaker, CACI - SOA
This seminar will focus on the lessons learned of reengineering and developing applications for the GCSS-AF Integrated Framework (IF). CACI will provide insight into the techniques and processes used for successfully reengineering the Air Force Combat Ammunition System (CAS) to be the first Level 4 compliant application on the GCSS-AF IF. CAS was reengineered, using the IBM Websphere architecture, to fully comply with the GCSS-AF IF architecture and procedures. In addition CACI will provide insight and lessons learned from the development of the EESOH application. EESOH is being developed in an incremental approach using the GCSS-AF IF and the Oracle Application Server architecture. These two applications are fully compliant with the GCSS-AF IF architecture.

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202 | Integrated Digital Environment (IDE), Geoff Oliver, Intergraph Corporation -
AFSO-21
Data means nothing to the user unless the user can access the data and convert it into information—information that aids the user in making informed decisions. All this must be done in a timely manner and must be repeatable with consistent processes from a common web interface—an Integrated Digital Environment (IDE). Intergraph has proven experience and demonstrated success in the design and implementation of IDEs that serve as a decision support tool and a single access point for information. Our ability to perform data mining across a variety of platforms is one key to our success. The IDE is able to extract datasets from those systems, apply defined business rules and produce information in a form the user needs to make management decisions now. Our experience and knowledge of Air Force Portfolio Management (PfM) of IT systems is critical to ensuring our systems meet required standards for certification & accreditation throughout the acquisition and development lifecycle.

203 | Legalities of Information in a World of Electronic and International Commerce, Rendigs, Fry, Kiely & Dennis, L.L.P. - IA
Part I of this presentation deals with information assurance in the context of transactional validity of e-commerce and e-business transactions. Included are matters of authenticity, integrity, non-repudiation or attribution, and information security. The seminar discusses contracts formed by electronic means, public key infrastructure, legal recognition of contracts formed by electronic signature, assurance that transaction content (information) has integrity and is protected from modification or corruption (assurance), assured identity of the contracting parties, governing statutes and regulations, and related litigation.
Part II deals with defense information protection in the international arms sales arena. This part discusses export control of defense information under the Arms Export Control Act and the International Traffic in Arms Regulation, what constitutes an export, what information is controlled, license requirements and exemptions, information protection requirements, and penalties for violation.

204 | Solutions…from the Data Up, Chuck Backus and Bob Kinney, Qbase - EIT
Organizations that fail to emphasize data/information in their technology and business strategies do so at their own peril. History shows that very few organizations give data the required focus when embarking upon system or business process modernization efforts. There are no silver bullets, but there are plenty of products claiming to solve this issue. In the end, you are held hostage by your data, rather than owning your data and organization’s destiny. Staying atop of and addressing data issues head-on isn’t impossible if the approach taken is in manageable chunks. An incremental approach that exposes the actual condition of the data, step-by-step, is the way to begin. Using this strategy, informed decisions can then be made about risks moving forward with data in its current state or improving the quality so that risks are reduced. Start building solutions from the data up.

205 | ERP Business Transformation, Dave Deakin, Lighthouse Technologies, Inc. - ERP
Information collected from Lighthouse Technologies’ experience providing independent assessments of large scale ERP programs confirms that although the technical and management challenges of these implementations can be significant, the greatest barrier to achieving business benefits remains the ability of the organization to transform its people and processes to effectively leverage the many features, functions and integration capabilities available in the ERP software. This presentation focuses upon the critical success factors and major failure drivers that need to be considered as you ready your organization for ERP Business Transformation.

206 | Adopting Service Oriented Architecture for your Organization, Dr. Anthony Rhem and Ajay Sharma, A.J. Rhem & Associates, Inc. - SOA
Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) has been rapidly gaining interest and acceptance throughout organizations worldwide. It is generally believed that implementing SOA will give your organization the flexibility it will need to gain a competitive advantage. So, what is SOA all about? Is this just a new technology fad, or will I gain a true competitive advantage when it’s properly implemented? This seminar will de-mystify the SOA by giving insight on what it is, how it can be implemented and why you should invest in SOA.
Attendees will learn the following: Details of the SOA Implementation Lifecycle, Tools, Techniques, Process and Principles around SOA, ROI and SOA, Problems Solve with SOA, SOA Benefits, SOA Governance.

307 | GCSS-AF Platform Modernization, Kris Singer, GCSS/Lockheed Martin - IT
GCSS-AF provides a range of capabilities designed to ensure Air Force applications remain running even in the face of unforeseen events. Learn how GCSS-AF can help you meet High Availability (HA), Continuity of Operations (COOP), and similar requirements.

308 | Simulation on Demand – Turning Your Dashboard into a Crystal Ball, Mike Engiles and Mike Whitaker, CACI - KM
This seminar will focus on the use of simulation as a web-service to provide predictive analytics on an organization’s business performance dashboards. The attendees will learn about basic principles of predictive analytics and how to integrate them into other applications and across enterprises through the use of services in a Services Oriented Architecture such as GCSS-AF Integration Framework. The session will provide an introduction to dashboards and describe the role of simulation in the dashboards.

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202 | Successfully Promoting and Deploying an AFSO21 Process Improvement Culture, Amy Giese, ICF - ET
Successful deployment and sustainment of a major Lean Transformation Program typically is difficult. Although some organizations implement changes smoothly, many struggle to execute adjustments productively. ICF International, working with the Enterprise Transformation Office at Tinker Air Force Base, has developed simple tools to help senior leadership assess, manage, and promote their AFSO21 program deployment. These tools score the maturity of the deployment, pinpoint areas in which the organization needs focus or assistance, and provide a road map for successful deployment. While directed toward phase one implementation of AFSO21, the general structure adapts easily to other organizational and corporate transformation programs and initiatives.

203 | Key Strategies for Overcoming ERP Data Access Challenges, Noetix Corporation - ERP
Discover the key strategies for overcoming data access issues within your ERP environment. Learn how to securely simplify access to the data stored in your Oracle Enterprise Applications database. Discover technology that can accelerate the delivery of your business intelligence strategy while enhancing your current investment in BI technology including query and reporting tools, dashboards, portals, and ETL tools.

204 | Metrics that Matter, Thomas L. Bono, 643 ELSS/EIEI - EIT
In today’s IT world, many projects use third and fourth generation development tools, and/or are acquiring and integrating COTS rather than writing lines of code (Java, etc.), and are likely doing a combination of all three. For those of us working for the Government there are laws (CCA) and regulations that lead us to acquiring IT solutions (COTS, etc.) rather than developing unique code. This presentation will discuss the types of measurements that matter and why they do matter, issues with existing measurements and metrics, and a proposed way ahead for effectively measuring productivity, performance, effectiveness and suitability of products and services in today’s Government IT world of outsourcing and COTS integration.

205 | Improving ERP Implementation – Using Innovative IV&V Methodologies to Mitigate Program Risk, Lawrence E. Sweeney, Mike Engiles, David Deakin, CACI, Lighthouse Technologies, Inc. - ERP
This presentation provides an overview of how Independent Verification and Validation (IV&V) is a critical element in risk identification and management for major Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) business systems acquisitions. This methodology builds upon a foundation of extensive ERP deployment experience, and research and assessment of critical success factors and primary failure drivers for COTS system integration activities. CACI and Lighthouse Technologies will share their experience in applying this innovative IV&V approach to both commercial and defense enterprise acquisition projects. We will address inherent risks, by applying rigorous quality analysis techniques to the key performance drivers in ERP deployment providing an unambiguous, definitive and predictive set of metrics and analyses that can be effectively applied to and leveraged by all aspects of the ERP integration project team. In addition to our metrics and analysis, this methodology will also show the role that dynamic modeling, simulation and optimization techniques play in supporting business performance improvement. This presentation will focus on the use of these powerful toolsets to significantly improve business processes and organizational performance through their application to front-end analysis phases of acquisition projects as well as operational monitoring and management activities.

206 | Automating the Global Supply Chain, JR Skelton, 643 ELSS/EIEC - ET
In the future, supply chains will continue to reach out to remote parts of the world and pipelines will span across small Mom and Pop industries to large government and commercial distribution centers.
New methods of parts and supply automation will follow the pipeline from raw materials to finished and delivered parts. Government distribution centers and depots are evolving to a seamless flow for order and management of commercial supply chain items and steps. Our supply lines will depend on the ability for data to flow among different networks and system types. In the fast lane of global of networks, system acquisition officers will need to find agile and fast methods of matching the business flow for parts supply management to abstract layers of commercial and government IT environments.

307 | Working with GCSS-AF (Using the GCSS-AF Process), Kathleen Esposito, GCSS/Lockheed Martin - IT
What does an Air Force business application team need to know about the GCSS-AF support and delivery process? Learn how the process allows you to concentrate on your application’s business logic and data, what support mechanisms GCSS-AF provides, what self-service information sources GCSS-AF has, and what you should plan for as you migrate to GCSS-AF.

308 | Enterprise Architecture and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), Eric Rudie, Oracle - SOA
Today the U.S. Air Force is being forced to respond faster to political and budgetary challenges and is looking to IT to be a differentiator providing flexibility and speed as they address complex business forces and a move to ERPs. Forced to deliver more, faster, IT managers should be looking at technology foundations that provide both agility and reduced cost, and Service-oriented architecture is touted as the silver bullet by industry analysts and the IT press. Learn how to achieve maximum value through the use of tools the U.S. Air Force already owns to help maintain agility as the business moves from legacy systems developed over the past 30 years towards modern, vendor support ERP solutions.