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Persistent Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance Product Line Architecture ver 1.1
(2011-01-31) Rapid Prototyping Valued Information at the Right Time (RapidPro-VIRT) Project Team; Gunderson, Chris; Open Enterprise Information Systems (OEIS); Evolving Open Enterprise Information Systems
PISR PLA is a Military Intelligence application of the commercial best practice for optimizing business objectives, via plug-and-play open systems. PISR PLA is optimized to deliver Valued Information at the Right Time. (Dr Rick Hayes-Roth led the NPS team that delivered PISR PLA.)
PlugFest: Demonstrating Agile Enterprise Information System Acquisition   
(2014-07) Gunderson, Chris; Westreich, Eric; Open Enterprise Information Systems (OEIS); Evolving Open Enterprise Information Systems
A plug fest is an industry best practice for demonstrating information technology (IT) interoperability in a particular enterprise. Participants earn market share by proving to customers that modular vendor offerings add value out of the box while meeting architecture standards and specifications. The ability to share data effectively across distributed nodes with rapidly evolving state-of-the-art commercial information technology is a key netcentric goal of the defense community. However, the defense acquisition process has had little success achieving that goal for at least two reasons: acquisition strategies do not incentivize horizontal interoperability, and existing command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (C4ISR) IT infrastructure is not sufficient to support the most critical and demanding tactical edge scenarios. The Defense Enterprise will close these gaps by working with like-minded government organizations and commercial consortia to establish an open government-industry community incentivized to address them pragmatically. This community is working with the military operational community to expose critical tactical use cases. It will also continuously evolve open standards that leverage COTS IT; address military-specific requirements; and demonstrate value added, interoperability, and security in runtime. The Government will reduce bureaucratic barriers to implementing these components with demonstrated capabilities via proven approaches such as approved product lists (APL) and convenient pre-negotiated contract vehicles.
Open Standard, "Type Certified", Virtual, Real-time, Cross Domain Services
(2014) Gunderson, Chris; Minton, David; Open Enterprise Information Systems (OEIS); Evolving Open Enterprise Information Systems
Netcentric Warfare Revisited (NCW): It's Origin and Its Future ... Revisited
(2009-09-01) Gunderson, Chris; Open Enterprise Information Systems (OEIS); Evolving Open Enterprise Information Systems
It has been a decade since Cebrowski and Gartska, and Alberts, Gartska, and Klein published their watershed Network‐Centric Warfare (NCW) Naval Institute Proceedings article and book, respectively. Through the lens of hindsight, this paper examines how their theories and predictions have held up. The authors find that the tenets of NCW have proven valid. Despite pro forma policy to the contrary, the US Defense community has substantially eschewed Cebrowski et al. in actual practice. Ironically, Al Qaeda has implemented the principles and achieved an advantage from them. Meanwhile, lessons learned in the 21st Century suggest two subtle improvements to the original NCW theory. First, success at NCW requires instantiating “smart push” of valued information at the right time (VIRT) as a key tactic. Second, success at NCW requires rapid, agile, “network‐centric” acquisition conducted literally within the commercial ecosystem of the World Wide Web.
Innovation, Agile, and Acquisition: Is there a pony in there somewhere?
(2014) Gunderson, Chris; Open Enterprise Information Systems (OEIS); Evolving Open Enterprise Information Systems
Evolving Open Enterprise Information Systems (Introduction)
(2014) Open Enterprise Information Systems (OEIS); Evolving Open Enterprise Information Systems
A Platform Across the Valley of Death  : Tech Transition via Open Enterprise Information System Development
(2014-06-26) Gunderson, Chris; Open Enterprise Information Systems (OEIS); Evolving Open Enterprise Information Systems; Information Science
Achieving “Tech Transfer”, defined as “an invention usefully adopted,” is difficult, particularly within the Defense Enterprise. The Defense acquisition system is designed to transition technology through a long serial process that is especially ill suited for Information Technology (IT). However, there is a successful commercial practice for transitioning newly invented IT called “Product Line Architecture” (PLA). PLA optimizes a specified open standard technical framework around specific, measurable, enterprise business objectives and streamlined bureaucratic process. There are no legal or technical barriers that prevent the Defense Enterprise from adapting PLA to leverage the IT marketplace for transition of information centric capabilities.
Enterprise information System (EIS) Value Assurance Framework (VAF) Risk-Reward Optimization   
(2014) Gunderson, Chris; Open Enterprise Information Systems (OEIS); Evolving Open Enterprise Information Systems
The high failure rate of EIS means we don't manage risk very well. This paper explains a pragmatic approach that learns lessons from the volatile, very risky, financial sector.
Rapid Evolutionary Acquisition - an in-Progress Review of an Exemplar Pilot Initiative   
(2010) Gunderson, Christopher R.; Minton, David H.; Open Enterprise Information Systems (OEIS); Evolving Open Enterprise Information Systems
Traditionally, the US military has sought and achieved asymmetric military advantage, i.e. delivered tactical blows, quickly, in the right places. However, lately, non-state terrorists have seized the asymmetric advantage. They use cutting edge Commercial-Off-the-Shelf Information Technology (COTS IT) for agile Command, Control, Communications, Computer and Intelligence (C4I). US Military, by contrast, is hamstrung by brittle, archaic MILSPEC C3I kit, and by a crushing bureaucracy that resists refreshing the technology at anything approaching Internet speeds. Members of the US Naval Intelligence have voluntarily reached across stovepipes to re-establish tactical asymmetric advantage, through Rapid Evolutionary Acquisition (REA) of game-changing IT. It’s not about the technology per se; it’s about using IT to give warfighters “information high ground.” Accordingly, REA adapts best practices from success cases in government and industry. Meanwhile, Congress has demanded DoD fix its broken IT acquisition processes. This REA initiative serves as an exemplar.
CWID 08 Demostrates Rapid Evolutionary Acquisition Model of Coalition C2   
(2014) Gunderson, Chris R.; Minton, David; Open Enterprise Information Systems (OEIS); Evolving Open Enterprise Information Systems
Coalition Warrior Interoperability Demonstration 2008 (CWID 08), Interoperability Trial (IT) #5.64 “Trusted Enterprise Service Bus” (T-ESB) demonstrates a potentially quantum improvement in the government procurement model for information systems. Joint Interoperability Command (JITC) sponsored the World Wide Consortium for the Grid (W2COG) Institute (WI) to conduct IT 5.64.