Acquisition Domain Data Governance

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United States Air Force

AV SOA Conference

22 Oct 09

Acquisition Domain

Data Governance

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Why Do We Care?

„ We get dazzled by tools … and there’s always a new one

„ We create and fund programs to spiral out systems with ever increasing functionality … often impressive

„ All of that is useful … and can be powerful

„ But only if it ultimately provides reliable information to decision makers

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Why Do We Care?

„ We get dazzled by tools … and there’s always a new one

„ We create and fund programs to spiral out systems with ever increasing functionality … often impressive

„ All of that is useful … and can be powerful

„ But only if it ultimately provides reliable information to decision makers

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Why Data Governance?

„ Allow authoritative, relevant, accurate, and consistent

information to be provided to decision makers at all levels

„ Establish trust in the information by enabling a clear understanding of what can be expected from the

information

„ Data update frequency

„ Data age

„ Data definition

„ Role access

„ How it can be appropriately used

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Our Data View

5 SMART Functional System Functional System Functional System PM PM PM PEO SAE Functional System Program Specific System(s) Program Specific System(s) Program Specific System(s)

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Our Data View

6 SMART Program Specific System(s) Program Specific System(s) Program Specific System(s) Functional System Functional System Functional System PM PM PM PEO SAE Functional System AV SOA Database

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Our Data View

7 SMART Program Specific System(s) Program Specific System(s) Program Specific System(s) Functional System Functional System Functional System PM PM PM PEO SAE AV SOA Database EV Repository

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Our Data View

8 SMART Program Specific System(s) Program Specific System(s) Program Specific System(s) Functional System Functional System Functional System PM PM PM PEO SAE AV SOA Database EV Repository

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Air Force Take on Governance

„ Information & Data Management Strategy (IDMS)

„ Issued from SecAF and CSAF

„ Focus on domain ownership of data

„ Directed creation of “Data Panels”

„ Led to the creation of the Transparency IPT

„ Chaired personally by SecAF

„ Focus on a standard information structure (SIS)

„ Effort coordinated by an Enterprise Vocabulary Team (EVT)

„ Strong push to service oriented architecture (SOA)

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TIPT Governance Structure

SECAF

Transparency Integrated Product Team

AF/A1 Personnel AF/SG Health Services AF/A2 ISR AF/A3/5 Operational SAF/FM Financial Transparency Enablement Personnel Transparency COI Education and Training COI Health Services Transparency COI ISR COI C2 Space Situational Awareness COI AF Mobility and Transportation COI Flight Scheduling COI Flight Scheduling Global Force Management COI GFM DI

COI Coordination Panel

Process Analysis

Enterprise Information Space

Integration and Test Framework

Clean Audit Enterprise SFIS SAF/AQ Acquisition Program Management COI Sourcing/ Contracting COI Science and Technology COI Readiness COI Depl Readiness Service AF/A4/7 Logistics and Installations LIMS Data Panel

COI COCOM57 Real Property Accountability Enterprise RPIM Active AF COI TIPT/CoI Support Sub-IPT Project Joint COI SAF/XC WF Integration Time Sensitive Targeting COI Technology Asset Mgmt COI ATO UID Air Operations COI Enterprise Vocabulary Team

FMIP Integrated Air & Missile Defense COI

Strike JEFX08 COI Jt Meteorological & Oceanographic COI Force Presentation COI Test and Evaluation COI Systems Engineering COI Product Support COI Requirements Development COI Acquisition Domain Data Panel

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Objective

„ Accelerate AF efforts in delivering authoritative information to decision makers at all levels

„ Improve AF Information availability and quality

„ Realize warfighter cross-service information requirements

„ Implement the DoD-wide information priorities

Transparency: an attribute that ensures that the process of transforming data into information used for decision making is traceable, auditable, and demonstrably proven … making it authoritative (trustable)

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Standard Information Structure

Object Model

Conceptual model(s) of COI domain (e.g., UML, ER, or OO models)

COI Glossary

Includes mapping of terms to data elements Includes synonym sets or thesaurus

Semantic Model

COI concept hierarchy and logical relations; (e.g., Taxonomies, Ontologies)

Business Rules

Constraints on COI information (e.g., Authorization Rulesets)

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Governance Structure

Air Force COI Coordination Panel ADS Analy s is Acquisition Domain Reference Group Acquisition CIO

TIPT – Transparency IPT T2 – Tools & Training Council

ADWG – Acquisition Domain Working Group DRT – Domain Requirements Team

DVT – Domain Vocabulary Team COI – Community of Interest

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Authoritative Data Sources

A recognized or official data production source with a designated mission statement or source/product to publish reliable and accurate data for subsequent use by customers.

An authoritative data source may be the functional combination of multiple, separate data sources.

Source: DoD Directive Number 8320.03, March 23, 2007

Complexity:

„ Information assets consist of overlapping atomic units make defining a single ADS complex

„ Trade-offs between timeliness and computational efficiency make defining a single ADS complex

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Governance Concerns

„ ADS governance

„ Where can authoritative information be found?

„ Can other sources be used?

„ Service Level Agreement construct

„ How often can a consumer expect information to be updated?

„ What will the consumer need to do to use it?

„ Data cleanliness construct

„ What level of cleanliness can be expected by a consumer?

„ Data access construct

„ What roles have access to what information?