{"id":7271,"date":"2013-04-30T19:12:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-30T19:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2639089"},"modified":"2013-04-30T19:12:00","modified_gmt":"2013-04-30T19:12:00","slug":"global-interoperability-consortiums-cloud-computing-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/global-interoperability-consortiums-cloud-computing-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Global Interoperability Consortium’s Cloud Computing Project"},"content":{"rendered":"

Managing and disseminating the rapidly increasing amount of geospatial data will be a huge challenge for governments and civilians responding to the world’s next big disaster, Eric Vollmecke of the Network Centric Operations Industry Consortium (NCOIC) told 350 global leaders at the NATO Network Enabled Capability conference held in Lisbon, Portugal, April 23-25.
\n“From an operational perspective, there is an insatiable appetite for overhead imagery to build situational awareness. Currently, platforms keep growing to collect and disseminate the necessary information. This information is not timely in its response, it’s unwieldy in its deployment and it lacks the flexibility to enable cross-domain interoperability,” said Vollmecke. “Unless we get our arms around all of this, the amount of data will be overwhelming and we will miss precious days trying to get the right information to the right international stakeholders so they can do their work and not sit waiting on the sidelines.”<\/p>\n

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Eric Vollmecke of the Network Centric Operations Industry Consortium reports <\/pre>\n
the proliferation of geospatial information will pose problems for disaster <\/pre>\n
responders and describes a project designed to move critical data more <\/pre>\n
efficiently using an open cloud-based infrastructure <\/pre>\n
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WASHINGTON, April 30, 2013 \/PRNewswire-USNewswire\/ — Managing and
\ndisseminating the rapidly increasing amount of geospatial data will be a
\n huge challenge for governments and civilians responding to the world’s
\nnext big disaster, Eric Vollmecke of the Network Centric Operations
\nIndustry Consortium (NCOIC) told 350 global leaders at the NATO Network
\nEnabled Capability conference held in Lisbon, Portugal, April 23-25.<\/p>\n
  “From an operational perspective, there is an insatiable appetite for
\noverhead imagery to build situational awareness. Currently, platforms
\nkeep growing to collect and disseminate the necessary information. This
\ninformation is not timely in its response, it’s unwieldy in its
\ndeployment and it lacks the flexibility to enable cross-domain
\ninteroperability,” said Vollmecke. “Unless we get our arms around all of
\n this, the amount of data will be overwhelming and we will miss precious
\n days trying to get the right information to the right international
\nstakeholders so they can do their work and not sit waiting on the
\nsidelines.”<\/p>\n
  Vollmecke said the use of a cloud computing environment will improve
\nthe ability to quickly share critical information between nations and
\nnon-governmental organizations. He described the Cloud Concept and
\nDemonstration project that NCOIC is working on for the National
\nGeospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA).<\/p>\n
  The NGA project is a collaborative effort by NCOIC and its
\nmember-companies to show the interoperability and movement of data in an
\n open cloud-based infrastructure. NGA is providing unclassified data
\nthat supports a scenario depicting the 2010 earthquake in Haiti. The
\nproject builds on a series of successful lab interoperability
\ndemonstrations based on Haiti that NCOIC conducted in 2010.<\/p>\n
  “In Haiti, we collected a huge amount of data compared to the
\nTasmanian tsunami of 2004. Tomorrow the amount of data could be 100 fold
\n and one organization alone will not be able to manage the inputs,” said
\n Vollmecke, who is also a major general in the U.S. Air National Guard
\nand, while on active duty, commanded two airlift wings during the 2010
\nHaitian crisis. “With the NGA community cloud project, NCOIC is testing a
\n collaborative, real-time environment that has both suppliers and
\nconsumers of data at different security levels.”<\/p>\n
  Information technology solutions provider NJVC is serving as team
\nleader of the NGA project and participants include Boeing, The Aerospace
\n Corporation and Open Geospatial Consortium. “NCOIC has assembled a team
\n you would not normally see on a government-led project,” Vollmecke told
\n the NATO audience. “Using a consortium is the most rapid and effective
\nway to facilitate the advancement and deployment of technology. The
\nparties can set aside their traditional roles and aren’t subject to the
\ncontractual and legal walls that typically are put up between government
\n and contractors. The exchange of information and ideas is more
\nfree-flowing.”<\/p>\n
  Vollmecke, who is NCOIC program director, reported that Cycle One of
\nthe NGA project is complete and the cloud infrastructure has been
\ndefined and built, with the team establishing standards and processes,
\nutilizing best practices, and addressing potential problems such as
\nownership, bandwidth, latency, availability, access and security.<\/p>\n
  In Cycle Two, set to begin in May, NCOIC member-companies will test
\nout the infrastructure. They will function as “actors” — information
\nconsumers and providers like police, firefighters, rescue workers,
\nmedical personnel, etc. — who plug into the clouds and use the
\ngeospatial data to activate unique, sometimes proprietary, applications
\nthat demonstrate end-user capabilities.<\/p>\n
  “The key is to have a core or resident capability in the cloud that
\ncan be rapidly expanded on demand, when there is an event or disaster,”
\nsaid Vollmecke. “This will free up intelligence analysts to work their
\nproblems, while putting geospatial information into the hands of other
\nusers. Cloud technology can improve everyone’s capability and
\neffectiveness, while reducing cost, time and risk.”<\/p>\n
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  About NCOIC<\/p>\n
  The Network Centric Operations Industry Consortium’s core capability
\nis enabling cross-domain interoperability among and between such areas
\nas aerospace, civil and military operations, air traffic management,
\nhealth care and more. NCOIC is a global not-for-profit organization with
\n more than 60 members representing 12 countries. It has an eight-year
\nhistory of developing net-centric skills and tools that help its members
\n and customers to operate effectively across diverse global market
\nsectors and domains. For more information, visit www.ncoic.org<\/a><\/p>\n
  SOURCE Network Centric Operations Industry Consortium <\/p>\n
   \/Web site: www.ncoic.org<\/a> <\/p>\n
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