Practical Challenges Facing Communities of Interest in the Net-Centric Department of Defense

The United States Department of Defense (DoD) – one of the world’s largest heterogeneous and distributed enterprises – is transforming its information management and sharing approaches in accordance with a net-centric data strategy. DoD traditionally has organized data practices along well-defined trust boundaries, with sharing occurring on a “need-to-know” basis. New solutions are expected to promote a “need-to-share” paradigm that enables all information to be available to all appropriate consumers within the enterprise. DoD has mandated the transformation to occur through the efforts of “coalitions of the willing,” better known as Communities of Interest (COIs). How is DoD progressing towards its vision and what challenges do COIs face? Although the experiential insights we offer here are viewed from a DoD perspective, these challenges are equally relevant for thoughtful consideration by any commercial enterprise embarking on a similar evolutionary journey.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: ITNG
• Authors: C. L. Connors, M. A. Malloy
• Keywords: ITNG 2007, Net-centric Data Strategy, United States Department Of Defense, Well-defined Trust Boundaries