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AFEI WORKING GROUPS
The mission of AFEI is to provide industry-wide input to government on enterprise-wide net-centric operations and transformation, to assist industry in understanding and assessing the implications and impacts of these changes, and to provide a conduit between government and industry. This collaboration is achieved under a charter jointly approved by OSD and AFEI.
How to Join: Contact Betsy Lauer or (703) 247-9473 for information.
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Current AFEI Working Groups
1. Data Sharing and Services Strategy (DS3) Sponsor:
DoD Office of the Deputy CIO, Director of Information Management, Mike Krieger
Industry Co-chairs:
Joan Baumstark, EDS
Greg Gardner, Oracle
Focus:
Provide industry input on policy issues relating to implementation of service oriented architectures in the Department of Defense. The group has developed two products relating to commercial best practices.
The Office of the DoD Chief Information Officer (CIO) asked the Association for Enterprise Integration (AFEI) Data Sharing and Services Strategy (DS3) working group to analyze the issues surrounding shared-services, and recommend strategies and policies to incentivize the implementation and adoption of shared-services within DoD. This paper provides the initial response to that tasking as a broad framework for shared-service solutions. The recommendations represent the collective inputs of focused debate around enterprise development in the private sector and how those technologies and practices must be adapted to fit within the DoD (warfighter, business, and intelligence domain users), where the timescale for decisions is more rapid, the security needs more demanding and the users more intertwined.
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2. Information Assurance (IAWG)
Sponsor:
DoD Office of the Deputy CIO, Director of Information Assurance, Bob Lentz
NSA Information Assurance Directorate, Chief IA Architecture, Mike Redgraves
Industry Co-chairs:
Mark Fedak, BAE Systems
Tom Furhman, BoozAllenHamilton
Darrel Lowery, Enterra Solutions
Focus:
Provide industry input on issues relating to the GIG IA Architecture with initial focus on assured information sharing. Collaborates with the International Collaborative Identity Management Forum on authentication. Developing a roadmap for industry support.
3.SafeSOA Task Force
Industry Co-chairs:
Steve Orrin, Intel
Hart Rossman, SAIC
The SafeSOA Task Force is:
A community of experts and practitioners in open dialogue
To provide a framework to negotiate contract & policy compliance alongside operational security
Enabling service oriented solutions across network & cultural boundaries via an extensible machine readable and enforceable solution set
Click here for additional information on the SafeSOA Task Force
4. Information Sharing
Sponsor:
DoD Office of the Deputy CIO, NII, Paul Grant
Industry Co-chairs:
Bryan Aucoin, Enterra Solutions
Jarl Magnusson, DNV
Working with representatives from across several government agencies, the group is working on delivering “Best Practices” for each of the Five DoD Information Sharing Strategy Pillars; Culture, Policy, Governance, Resources, Technology.
AFEI Working Group Role
AFEI working groups serve in a conduit for OSD and the Services to industry, and an opportunity for industry to influence policy and implementation decisions.
AFEI provides industry-wide collaboration on net-centric and transformation issues
and serves government by providing a neutral, non-proprietary environment
for collectively addressing mutual concerns in partnership with
industry.
Why these working groups?
- Represents a collective industry position beyond the
membership of AFEI.
- It is a transparent group that engages with government
in partnering and discussions.
- It is NOT a standards group and does
NOT intend to choose standards. The NCOIF intends
to help government develop strategies for dealing with commercial
standards as well as those that may be unique to DoD community of
interest functions.
- The group assesses, coordinates, and gives a consensus
of opinion on issues relating to DOD Enterprise Services.
- Work Group Standard Operating Procedures (SOP)
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AFEI Activities
The Data Sharing and Services Strategy Working Group is the first Working Group to collaborate and produce a White Paper under the a Joint Charter with DoDCIO. The Data Sharing and Services Strategy WG has completed a report titled Industry Best Practices in Achieving Service Oriented Architecture (SOA).
Join the distribution list now by clicking here and select the Working Group you wish to participate in.
Click Here for the Industry Report (PDF)
View information about the Data Strategy Implementation Meeting that took place on
November 18, 2004.
View information about the International Collaborative Identity Management Forum (I-CIDM)
View information about the Enterprise Services Conference that took place on February 23-24, 2005
View information about the Implementing Data Strategy Conference that took place on April 12, 2005.
DoD documents:
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