{"id":25249,"date":"2021-02-17T20:43:01","date_gmt":"2021-02-17T20:43:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/uncategorized\/2021\/02\/17\/the-navys-top-data-official-wants-to-incentivize-interoperability\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T18:18:01","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T18:18:01","slug":"the-navys-top-data-official-wants-to-incentivize-interoperability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/battlefield-tech\/it-networks-battlefield-tech\/2021\/02\/17\/the-navys-top-data-official-wants-to-incentivize-interoperability\/","title":{"rendered":"The Navy\u2019s top data official wants to incentivize interoperability"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WASHINGTON \u2014 The U.S. military\u2019s joint warfighting effort, known as JADC2, depends on the ability to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.c4isrnet.com\/it-networks\/2020\/10\/08\/how-the-pentagons-data-strategy-enables-joint-all-domain-operations\/\" target=_blank>transfer data between disparate systems<\/a>. To help build out those capabilities, service leaders have kicked off a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.c4isrnet.com\/battlefield-tech\/it-networks\/2021\/01\/27\/getting-away-from-anything-goes-military-leaders-set-data-standards-for-joint-war-fighting\/\" target=_blank>new round of discussions<\/a> about common data standards and how to encourage contractors to follow those guidelines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tom Sasala, the Navy\u2019s chief data officer, said Feb. 17 during C4ISRNET\u2019s \u201cRemoving Stovepipes\u201d series that officials are looking to find communications gaps that would hinder joint warfighting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cYou have a lot of weapon systems that have been under development in in the field for 20 or 30 years and now we\u2019re asking them to suddenly start talking to each other using modern web services and technologies that most of them weren\u2019t even built on,\u201d Sasala said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here are four other ideas Sasala discussed that could improve JADC2 and the Navy\u2019s data environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><b>Learning how incentivize interoperability<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The military services are beginning to work together on data standardization. In a meeting late last month, top data officials from the services and the joint staff met to settle on a definition of a common data fabric to set the foundation for data interoperability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But one problem that remains is that the current acquisition process does not encourage vendors to build systems that can connect to each other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe pay a vendor to build a system and we pay a different vendor to build a different system. There\u2019s not a whole lot of incentive right now for those two vendors to talk to each other,\u201d Sasala said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cTrue interoperability is really going to have to happen by the government for the government. It needs to be a combination of workforce skills and cultural change, as well as acquisition policy and process change, where the government program managers insist that the system they\u2019re building must be able to speak to the system that some other program manager is building.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For example, one incentive could be to include contract language that offers additional money for systems that can connect more easily to other. Or, conversely, the department could include language that would disincentivize systems that only work in a silo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe\u2019re trying to figure out exactly when you employ these different models right now,\u201d Sasala said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><b>Defined data standards for Joint All Domain Command and Control?<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sasala said service leaders are making progress on exactly which systems need to be able to communicate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cPart of the conversation was focused on the gaps that we have in exchanging information,\u201d Sasala said. \u201cAnd part of the conversation was on the interoperability problems we have with exchanging data.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For example, Sasala mentioned that how militaries throughout the world use Link 16, a communications system used by the U.S military, NATO and coalition partners, could change. That\u2019s in part because it\u2019s not easy to change a system that\u2019s globally dispersed and that was developed decades ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sasala said he made a recommendation to the JADC2 cross-functional team that partners should \u201clook at the operational nodes, and how they\u2019re communicating today and find either gaps or interoperability issues in those nodes and focus our standards on those, rather than creating whole new standards that people then need to turn around and adopt.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><b>Data security<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The SolarWinds breach that afflicted several U.S. government agencies has raised eyebrows within the information security community at the department. With the reliance of third party vendors for many IT contractors, service officials are looking toward zero-trust architectures to secure their networks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Zero-trust is \u201ca little bit of a buzzword right now in my personal opinion, but the notion of zero-trust has to be fully embraced, where nothing on the network is trusted,\u201d Sasala said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Right now, he said, software isn\u2019t mature enough to validate identity at each stop along a network: the router, the switch, the computer to the DoD\u2019s common access card. While the end goal is zero-trust, the basics of data security are still fundamental: encrypting data at rest and in transit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the future, he said he\u2019s looking at polymorphic encryption, which would allow data to be used while still encrypted. But this approach, he said, still has vulnerabilities to quantum computers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><b>The Navy\u2019s changing its approach to data<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Within the last week, Sasala said that the Navy started changing how it looks at data. This includes using analytics for the performance management of systems that could ultimately lead to cost savings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Navy is starting to pull in data from program aspects such as contracts, sustainment or delivery orders that can provide insight into program milestones, instead of setting performance metrics dashboards. By using analytics, the service hopes to save money and reallocate those funds. Sasala said the Navy returns a \u201cfair amount\u201d of total obligated funds every year. Using analytics, the service could determine where that unspent money is and instead spend it elsewhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe can start modeling things and do \u2018what if\u2019 scenarios now,\u201d Sasala said. \u201cSo what if we were able to find 15 percent of unspent every year? What could we spend it on? So we have a 355 ship target but we\u2019re only funded at 310? 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