NCOIC Holding Full Day Cloud Computing Session

The Network Centric Operations Industry Consortium (NCOIC) will be holding a one-day cloud computing session during its plenary meetings, 21-25 September at the Fair Lakes Hyatt in Fairfax, VA. A complimentary workshop on NetCentric Patterns will also be held Wednesday morning that week.

The NCOIC is a unique collaboration of premier leaders in the aerospace, defense, information technology, large-scale integrator and services industries. The Consortium works in tandem with customers from around the world, each with a specific mission, to provide a set of tools that enable the development of network centric capabilities and products. An example of the consortium’s unique capabilities the recent agreement between NCOIC and the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to advance the Enterprise Architecture of NextGen, FAA’s national airspace (NAS) transformation program. The NCOIC will analyze and evaluate NextGen’s enterprise architecture views, products, plans, net-centric patterns and operational concepts. Working collaboratively, its members will develop “voice of industry” recommendations about applying net-centric standards to the NextGen procurement, as a way to achieve interoperability in the NAS and, potentially, the skies beyond U.S. borders.

The NCOIC expects senior government leadership, both US and international, to participate in both the General Plenary and its regular team meetings. A Cybersecurity panel in Wednesday’s General Plenary meeting will include current hi-level government experts, and will provide an opportunity for valuable discussion of this hot topic. Also, this fall marks the fifth anniversary of the formal establishment of NCOIC. To take advantage of this milestone, the organization is planning a panel discussion that will include some of the Emeritus Advisory Council, Executive Council and Technical Council chairs. This promises to be an interesting discussion of the impact of NCOIC to date, and where the NCOIC can position itself in order to provide valuable contributions in the future.

Registration for the plenary is now available at https://www.ncoic.org/events/plenaries_council/ .

General (Ret) Harald Kujat

Advisory Council Chair, Former Chairman, NATO Military Committee and Chief of Staff, Federal Armed Forces (Germany)

BG Hakan Bergstrom

Swedish Ministry of Defence

VADM Nancy Brown

Director, C4 Systems Directorate (J6), Joint Staff

Honorable Jay Cohen

Under Secretary, Science and Technology Directorate, Department of Homeland Security

Air Vice Marshall Carl Dixon, RAF

Capability Manager (Information Superiority), United Kingdom Ministry of Defence

Maj. Gen. Pietro Finocchio

General Manager of General Directorate for Telecommunications, Information Technology, and Advanced Technology Italian MoD

Maj. Gen. Koen Gijsbers, RNLA

Assistant Chief of Staff, C4I, Allied commander Transformation

Honorable John G. Grimes

Assistant Secretary of Defense for Networks and Information Integration

Honorable Keith R. Hall

Advisory Council Chair Emeritus, former Assistant Secretary of the Air Force (Space) and Director, National Reconnaissance Office

VADM Harry B. Harris, Jr.

U.S. Navy Liaison to NCOIC

Maj. Gen. Georges D’Hollander

Director NHQC3S

Mr. John C. Johnson,

Assistant Commissioner for Service Development, General Service Administration’s Federal Technology Service

Honorable Paul Kaminski

Advisory Council Chair Emeritus, former Undersecretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics

Dr. Robert Laurine

Chief Information Officer, National Geospatial Intelligence Agency

Mr. Charles Leader

Director, NextGen Joint Planning and Development Office

Mr. Carlo Magrassi

Armaments Director European Defense Agency

Mr. Mark T. Powell

U.S. Coast Guard Liaison to NCOIC

BGen Blandine Vinson-Rouchon

Director, System of Systems Architecture

DGA (Delegation Generale pour l’Armement), French MoD

LTG Jeffrey A. Sorenson

Chief Information Officer/G6 HQ, Department of the Army

Honorable John P. Stenbit

Former Assistant Secretary of Defense for Networks and Information Integration

Mr. Dag Wilhelmsen

General Manager, NATO C3 Agency

Lt. Gen. Ulrich Wolf, German Army

Director, NATO Communications Information Systems Services Agency

Mr. Matt Yannopoulos,

Chief Technology Officer, Chief Information Officer Group. Australian Department of Defence