NESDIS CEISC Briefing

July 20, 2004

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NESDIS Information Technology Architecture Team (ITAT) Status

Monthly VTC’s being conducted (2-hours)

Tri-Annual Face-to-Face (3-days) … October, February, June

ITAT Membership comprised of representatives from each Line Office, and NESDIS OCIO NOAA OCIO by invitation

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NESDIS ITAT Status (Continued)

Developing NESDIS ITAT Five-Year Plan Streamlining of Data Calls and Reporting Requirements Coordinating NESDIS Website Activities

Common “look and feel” Line Office Website Management Plan Requirements NEB to be briefed on Line Office progress on web activities

Identifying “job” requirements of ITAT Reps Developing focused NESDIS Architecture Team as ITAT

subgroup Increasing Action Item Accountability

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NESDIS ITAT Status (Continued)

Redefined ITAT Goals Serve the mission and goals of NESDIS, NOAA, and

DOC Improve the utilization of resources

Personnel and Funds Execute the Terms of Reference as defined Leave things better than we found them

Technically Organizationally Process-wise

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ITAT Issues

Push of software onto NESDIS from the NOAA and DOC level w/o “requirements’ review w/o consultation or partnering

NESDIS Management Commitment to ITAT IT Resource Constraints

All efforts ‘out-of-hide’ All efforts ‘other duties as assigned’

Need for tools to support processes

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ITAT Overarching Mission

Formulate and Maintain the NESDIS IT architecture

Develop and Recommend IT policies, guidelines, and standards

Coordinate education for NESDIS IT

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ITAT Responsibility

Carry out regular in-depth reviews of IT matters

Present recommendations to the CIO, and also to the NEB

The OCIO and NEB relies on the ITAT to formulate and maintain the NESDIS architecture, and to develop and recommend IT policies, guidelines and standards

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ITAT Tasks

Develop and Maintain Capital Asset Plans (OMB Exhibit 300) and related financial summaries (OMB Exhibit 53)

Formulate and Review the five year Capital Asset Plan for IT

Develop the NESDIS-wide Enterprise IT Architecture and Planning Process

• Maintain the Technical Reference Model (TRM)

Review and endorse the five-year Ground Systems PAC Budget Plan

Form subgroups to Oversee and Address specific focus areas (e.g., Web, Telecommunications, Security, Office Support, Metadata, …)

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ITAT Tasks (Continued)

Plan and Implement processes for repeatable, consistent software development Formulate and Review the five year Capital Asset Plan for IT

Standardize platforms, operating systems, configuration, and software for Administrative, Operational, and Research systems

Oversee NESDIS’ IT to promote the improvement of the agency’s practices in modernization, use, sharing, and performance measures

Address and plan for evolving user requirements - connectivity and interoperability

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ITAT Tasks (Continued)

Recommend and establish policy for desktops, networking, security, web services and other areas as deemed necessary

Identify opportunities for cross-cutting cooperation using IT to support common functions

Support the DoC and NOAA Strategic, Budget and Operations planning efforts

Develop information systems management and security policies

Respond to “Data Calls”

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Tool Set Assessment Team

Concept – develop operational system tool kit - non Office Support Team areas focus on dictated IT requirements

auditing & reporting tools patch management & reporting tools network monitoring & reporting tools

focus on best practices configuration management tools network management tools inventory management tools software QC and version control

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Toolset Requirements Definition & Analysis

Identify requirements in terms of:

functionality in diverse environments

internal and external drivers

operational system constraints

ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURE!

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Toolset Initial Priority

Patch management & reporting in the operational environment: determine NOAA requirement drivers & constraints determine NOAA progress to date identify functional requirements & constraints perform market survey determine does one size fit all? perform business case analysis; advise ITAT perform demonstration and evaluation

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Draft Terms of Reference (TOR)

The purpose of the ITAT Tool Set Assessment Team:

Serve as the NESDIS technical focal point for IT solutions to operational system issues. The Tool Set Assessment Team will address these issues from a requirements, a business case, operational implementation, and a NESDIS enterprise architecture perspective. The Tool Set Assessment Team will recommend standards and draft policies pertaining to supporting operational capability and best practices for consideration by the ITAT.

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Current Telecommunications Challenges

Input from ALL offices for databases, diagrams, growth requirements, local issues.

Active participation in Telecom Team monthly VTC’s. Identify a budget analysis process. Representation on NAC, ENTA.

Government alternate for Telecom Team.

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Current Telecommunications Challenges (Continued)

Data circuit documentation Continuous update of circuit listing & diagrams. Identify a planning process for mission growth, new

technologies and network requirements. Document mission & application requirements Establish centralized budget views.

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Current Telecommunications Challenges (Continued)

Integration of future technologies Identify 3-5 year NESDIS/NOAA technology plans Growth requirements (users, BW, new technology) Technology refresh and upgrades Robust network to meet customer requirements Security and COOP considerations Consolidations & synergy savings Collaborative efforts

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TelecommunicationsTechnology Opportunities

IPv6NAC project participation. Current, HPCC

funding.Knowledge base, training required. IP addresses, multicast, Security and QOS. IPO interest and project with Silver Spring

NOC.Possible site at Suitland.

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Telecommunications Technology Opportunities(Continued)

Internet2 or Abeline. VPN’s, VTC & VOIP?

What has been successful, what is planned? Feedback on technologies Process to share information (Telecom Team, site) Outside organizations - collaboration Future sharing of tools, resources and development Issues with format, distribution & control.

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NOAA Administrative Order 212-15

Policy: NOAA environmental and geospatial data will be maintained in accordance with applicable OMB regulations, …, FGDC Standards

Responsibilities: NOAA National Data Centers and Centers of Data shall maintain an environmental data and information metadata catalog.

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Dense Metadata

Sparse Metadata

Identification, Spatial / TemporalExtent, User Guides, Entity & Attribute,

Mission, Platform, Quality, Lineage,Distribution

Standards Compliant

Data Discovery ToolThe first step in the data discovery

process usually involves searching acollection of sparse metadata. Once

an appropriate data collection islocated, a dense metadata may be

required to locate a particular granule.

Inventory Information, Orbit Information,Granule Metadata, Parameter Ranges

Generally Includes Some CustomContent

Sparse metadata can be harvested tosupport centralized data discovery tools(i.e., NASA Global Change masterDirectory) or the data discovery tool maydo a distributed search of multiple sparsemetadata collections (Federal GeographicData Committee Clearinghouse).

Queries /Handoffs

MetadataSubset /Update

Harvest

Search

Dense metadata collections provide subsets or updates of theirmetadata to sparse metadata collections either as complete filesor as programmatic updates. Data discovery tools send queries todense metadata collections or handoff users for detailedsearches.

Metadata System Elements and Relationships

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FGDC Remote Sensing Extensions

Base FGDC

Sat.Prod.

DMSP

SAA

CoRIS

NOAAServer

NOAA Metadata Manager and Repository

ScienceFormats / Databases

WebSearches &Portals

ScientistComprehensive

Task Specific

XML

B

Java Class Libraries

GIS

GeospatialData DiscoveryA

C

D

E

Geospatial Capabilities

Other

InternetMapping

Desktop

EOS

1BFiles

DataProcessing

Systems

G

F

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NMMR NODES

NOAAServerOSDPD

NWSNOS

OAR

NCDC

OSEI

NMFS

NODC

CLASSInventory

NODC NGDC

Present

GCMD FGDC

NGDC

Other

CLASSNOAA

CoRISNOAA

LIBRARY

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NMMR NODES

NWSNOS

OAR

NCDC

OSEI

NMFS

NODC

NODC NGDC

Shared Sparse Metadata

GCMD FGDC

NGDC

Other

CLASS CLASSInventorySparse+Dense

NOAA

NOAAServer CLASSSparse

CoRISNOAA

LIBRARY

FY’04 GOAL

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CLASS

NMMR NODES

NWSNOS

OAR

NCDC

OSEI

NMFS

NODC

NODC NGDC

Shared Discovery

GCMD FGDC

NGDC

Other

DataCenters

+ CLASSNOAA

NOAAServer

CoRISNOAA

LIBRARY

FY’05 GOAL

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NMMR NODES

NWSNOS

OAR

NCDC

OSEI

NMFS

NODC

NODC NGDC

NOAAServer Gone - NESDIS

GCMD FGDC

NGDC

NESDIS

Sparse

CLASS

CoRISNOAA

LIBRARY

FY’05 GOAL

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Can NESDIS achieve a unitedInformation Technology Architecture for metadata?

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ITAT-Web Team

All NESDIS Line-offices are represented Responsible for design and maintenance of the NESDIS

home Web 34 NESDIS Office Web sites under purview of the ITAT-

Web Team Important venue for exchange of ideas and building

common solutions – essential since NESDIS’ offices are geographically dispersed

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Web TeamActivities Update

Changes to NESDIS Web Addition of breadcrumb navigation - FY04 milestone Updated NESDIS satellite page – added data boxes for each

satellite including altitude, location, and status - completed

Changes to extended Web (i.e. new osdpd, ncdc…) LOs maintain NESDIS Web banner and styles with redesigns

Status of NOAA Web Policy 5 NGDC continues to work with the NOAA GC to create a

maximum 2-page plain English template for Internet hosting agreements. Template approval hoped for by late spring.

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Other Web activities/projects

Upcoming DOC Privacy Policy implications FY04 - All DOC websites will have machine readable

Privacy Policies that interact automatically with the user’s browser.

DOC Web Advisory Group is working on a plan of action and evaluating P3P (Platform for Privacy Preferences)

Training slideshow is being compiled and will be posted to WAG Website within the next month.http://www.osec.doc.gov/webresources/