Applying Joint Network Enabled Operations (NEO) Project Lessons to IOOS/GOOS

Abstract

This paper will suggest initiating a cross-domain dialogue, including lessons learned from another complex system-of-systems development, to (and from) the Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS) and the U.S. Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS.) Much of the Joint Network Enabled Operations (NEO) development work for the future global aviation system is analogous to the ongoing development of the IOOS. Further, there have been important practical lessons on elements of advocacy, and related coalitions of stakeholders, which support successful outcomes. During 2005, an initial spiral development and demonstration project was conducted by a government and industry team applying a NEO, system-of-systems approach to develop the next generation aviation system. Like IOOS, this work was performed in support of an interagency customer set (in this case the Joint Planning and Development Office representing DOT/FAA, DoD, DHS, NASA, DOC/NOAA.) This project explored current and future operational concepts, architecture definition, information exchange requirements, data standards and protocols, and strategic and tactical-level decision support (with special emphasis on timely, data-driven collaborative decision making for complex operational problems.) The next spiral development project will be planned and executed in 2006 and 2007. An important area of early user engagement in the NEO development work was the exploration of a generalized data model to represent the data for a widely diverse future set of data suppliers and users. For the traditional air traffic domain of the baseline system, an important part of this is the Flight Data Object. For the diverse set of interagency and private sector users and for future aviation system concepts, this baseline was an inadequate data representation. Similarly, the NEO project systems engineering and test bed development is related to ongoing work in standards and protocols (including semantics, data structures) for the IOOS