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

Abstract

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.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2007
Accession Number
AD1107051

Entities

People

  • C. L. Connors
  • M. A. Malloy

Organizations

  • MITRE Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Best Practices
  • Boundaries
  • Business Administration
  • Commerce
  • Communities
  • Configuration Management
  • Consumers
  • Control Systems
  • Data Processing
  • Databases
  • Department Of Defense
  • Information Exchange
  • Information Systems
  • Infrastructure
  • Knowledge Management
  • Lessons Learned
  • Management Personnel
  • Personnel Management
  • Specifications
  • United States

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  • Geospatial Intelligence and Artificial Intelligence Analytics
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