OMG Internet Platform Special Interest Group

Monday, November 15, 1999

• 0900-1000  TALK/DISCUSSION:  Policies, Procedures, Prototypes, and Pilot Implementations (P4I) for Coalition Command, Control, Communications, Computers and Intelligence (C4I) and Sustainment, Shel Sutton, MITRE
ABSTRACT.  Major reductions in the threats to national securities, resulting from the end of the cold war, are driving the militaries of the industrialized nations to downsize, forcing an increasing reliance on coalitions of forces in conflicts and in humanitarian pursuits.  Successful coalition operations rely on a sharing of information; sharing that may not be required at all in other circumstances.  Today, the information systems that are used to manage sharable information may take months before they can share information with their counterpart systems of other nations.  This document proposes a policy, procedures, prototype, and pilot implementation (P4I) environment with a dedicated secretariat under the aegis of the Object Management Group (OMG), an industry-based international specification development organization dedicated to identifying and standardizing interoperability solutions.  The proposed environment will address the technical aspects of information sharing among nations' information systems in the C4I and sustainment environment.  This environment is one that encourages partnering across national boundaries in order to solve common problems, while preserving the integrity of individual nations' policies, procedures, customs, language, and software industry.  Some of the problems that can be addressed in the proposed P4I Environment include technical policy and software architecture issues with regard to information security, computer assisted cooperative work, and common views of the battlespace.  This proposal includes a novel approach to the financial aspects of the organization that will assist small companies and academic organizations to contribute in ways that would otherwise be impossible.  Finally, this proposal sets describes the next steps that must be undertaken to instantiate the P4I environment, beginning with an international feasibility study that must be performed before any other commitments are made by potential participants.
• 1000-1200  Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) Working Group, Henry Rothkopf, MITRE
• review CSCW Green Paper and CSCW Status
• 1300-1700  Agent Working Group

Tuesday, November 16, 1999

• 1330-1700 Agent Working Group

*** WOIA and OTAM working groups are not scheduled to meet.