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Battlefield Airmen Operating System

Connecting Battlefield Airmen in a social information environment:• A Cyber Weapon System:

Methodology of the Past (Doctrinal)

Technology of the Today (Tactics, Techniques, Procedures)

Neutralize threats of Tomorrow (Leverage Technology)

• Organizational Amnesia:• Someone in my organization knows the answer• Find the needle in the ‘hay-stack’

• Analyze the process: • Get an hour back in your day thru the power of IBM• Stop throwing the needle into another ‘hay-stack’

• Dynamically Collaborate in the “best practices” modern industry has to offer


A Mobile Application Suite designed for rapid response to global events:

• This OS is an application framework designed to allow users to rapidly project Combat Air Power:

• External Ignorance• We don’t know what we

don’t know• We don’t know what

questions to ask• Some one out there

knows the answers• Internal Amnesia

• We don’t know what we know already

• Summary of “Big Data”: Move from search to discovery

Full Spectrum Collaboration

The Solution


• In the past organized revolutions took years to materialize, and may have potentially flickered out without gaining momentum. Now, ideations can play out in a matter of minutes or days.

• Natural and financial disasters or politically motivated movements are more likely to spawn high velocity social dynamics that result in unpredictable disasters which will surely lead to a global response from today's already tasked force.

• In the past twelve months, social networks have demonstrated that they provide a spring board for nearly instant mobilization of people to tremendous results.

The PAC responds

The Threat


The world has seen the power of social media environments like Facebook, Twitter, Wikis, Blogs, You Tube and Flickr. It has also seen the adoption of over 1 Billion mobile apps at mind blowing speeds.

Our potential adversaries in asymmetric engagements use all kinds of open media as a simple/cost effective C4 hub capability.

In many cases this open media is timelier in reporting critical events than the news sources and national security reporting structures.

The Value of Facebook: is not the People or Content rather it’s the ability to analyze the content.

Internal Collaborative environments are more effective than external networks…. due to the ability of focused powerful Enterprise Content Management and Analytic tools.

Value Proposition


• Even the most effective intelligence collection management processes in which humans set collection priorities will always be pitifully slow in their ability to react to network actions.

• The USAF can harness the power of external social tools in parallel to an internal social space which allows the enterprise to reduce operational cost thru the leveraging of smart technology.

• Summary: Internal velocity must equal external velocity

…We need to develop tools and techniques to help our workforce negotiate better business deals; and ensure our workforce has the skills, training, education and experience to produce results for the Air Force and for the taxpayers. Michael B. Donley Secretary of the Air Force

Intelligence Gathering


The BAOS is an accelerated framework designed for rapid assembly of applications.

The weapon system must manipulate the data from the social network in many unique ways. This causes multiple intelligence gathering disciplines to be fussed together.

Multi-Int / A framework designed to view pedigree apps in a Thematic, Temporal and Geospatial representation

Assessment and response to a cyber network requires a paradigm for viewing the battlespace.

Collapse Structures

Strategic/Tactical Analysis Natural Disaster Preparedness Obvious /Non-Obvious Relationships

Build an “App for that”


IBM’s “SIE” application frame-work is:

1. A reduction in operational costs

2. Flexible with agnostic plug-in capabilities (current & legacy)

3. Agile and highly adaptable to meet specific mission applications/needs

4. A scalable framework for the enterprise

5. Built on open standards, unprecedented computing power and advanced analytics

Forms


The IBM Collaborative Workspace is built on a social collaboration and discovery accelerator framework that is highly extensible to support customizable applications regardless if located on SIPR for US, BICES for NATO or NIPR for other alliances.

The BAOS is:• Ready to ingest “AFKN” in order to make the

existing networks and data bases more relevant and accessible to the enterprise

• Ready to meet short term KM, collaboration and situational awareness

• Designed to be the framework that enables extension of the enterprise into the cloud

• A data and operating system agnostic framework ready to deploy on any platform (Including JSTARS)

The BAOS will:• Protect sources and methods with hidden

communities and file restricting the dissemination of sensitive information to the right people at the right time

• Readily equipped with new and accurate data to support crucial decision making


Rapidly assemble "an app for that" using embedded Portlet and Widget factories in order to respond to emerging threats or requirements.

Rapidly build cyber weapon systems to provide the common operational environment through the rapid assembly of “apps” for command, control, combat support, combat service support, intelligence and business functions.

The framework, can rest on any operating platform as a service providing an enterprise-wide Information Technology (IT) infrastructure, allowing consolidated Distributed Data Centers (DDCs) to serve as the repositories of all USAF data and integrate National Mission Forces and Theater Forces networks with appropriate controls.

Business

Processes

Tactics, Techniques,Procedures

Gear & Equipment

Disaster Prep

Financial & Budget

Prediction

Force Projection

Supporting Kinetic

Operations

Organizational Pedigree

Organizational Pedigree


SourceRepositories &

Databases

Anonymously OSINT / PACINT

Feeds

Anonymously Scraped Social

Media Feeds

Ingesting: Data Bases, Sensors, Feeds and Sources


Mash Up Hub of easily consumable

feeds

Human (HITL)Highly efficient

human realization

AnalyticsOrchestrated

discovery for system realization

Sensor SpectrumOrganic, related & extended grid of

data base and sensor

management

Digital AuthoringDocument production

Process Management

Enterprise Social Organization

A virtual (FOB) and Dynamic Work Space

where internal collaboration exists

Work Flow and Processes

A Recursive Model


Doctrine governs the way in which the DoD conducts business. If the members of an enterprise are to use a system…then one would expect that system to be a framework that rests on that same doctrinal methodology.

Collaboration: Effective joint operations require close coordination, cooperation, and information sharing among multiple organizations. The most common technique for promoting this collaboration is the identification or formation of centers, groups, bureaus, cells, offices, elements, boards, working groups, and planning teams and other enduring or temporary cross-functional staff organizations that manage specific processes and accomplish tasks in support of mission accomplishment.