United States Air Force Acquisition Domain Data Governance AV SOA Conference 22 Oct 09
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
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 It s about the data, stupid
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 Business rules
Our Data View SAE SMART PEO (s) (s) (s) 5
Our Data View SAE AV SOA Database SMART PEO (s) (s) (s) 6
Our Data View EV Repository SAE AV SOA Database SMART PEO (s) (s) (s) 7
Our Data View EV Repository SAE AV SOA Database SMART PEO (s) (s) (s) 8
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) 9
TIPT Governance Structure Sub-IPT Active AF COI Project TIPT/CoI Support Joint COI SECAF Transparency Integrated Product Team Transparency Enablement COI Coordination Panel Enterprise Vocabulary Team Process Analysis Enterprise Information Space Integration and Test Framework AF/A1 Personnel AF/SG Health Services AF/A2 ISR AF/A3/5 Operational AF/A4/7 Logistics and Installations SAF/AQ Acquisition SAF/FM Financial SAF/XC WF Integration Personnel Transparency COI Education and Training COI Health Services Transparency COI ISR COI Global Force Management COI GFM DI Integrated Air & Missile Defense COI Strike JEFX08 COI Jt Meteorological & Oceanographic COI Force Presentation COI FMIP Readiness COI Depl Readiness Service C2 Space Situational Awareness COI AF Mobility and Transportation COI Flight Scheduling COI Flight Scheduling LIMS Data Panel COI COCOM57 Real Property Accountability Enterprise RPIM Acquisition Domain Data Panel Clean Audit Enterprise SFIS Program Management COI Requirements Development COI Science and Technology COI s Engineering COI Test and Evaluation COI Sourcing/ Contracting COI Product Support COI Air Operations COI ATO UID Time Sensitive Targeting COI Technology Asset Mgmt COI
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) 11
Standard Information Structure COI Glossary Includes mapping of terms to data elements Includes synonym sets or thesaurus Object Model Conceptual model(s) of COI domain (e.g., UML, ER, or OO models) Semantic Model COI concept hierarchy and logical relations; (e.g., Taxonomies, Ontologies) Business Rules Constraints on COI information (e.g., Authorization Rulesets) Authoritative Data Sources
Governance Structure Acquisition CIO Acquisition Domain Reference Group ADS Analysis Data Panel Program Office Domain Knowledge Knowledge DVT Alignment Air Force COI Coordination Panel TIPT Transparency IPT T2 Tools & Training Council ADWG Acquisition Domain Working Group DRT Domain Requirements Team DVT Domain Vocabulary Team COI Community of Interest 13
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 14
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? 15