Information Meeting on Joint Doctrine Ontology

Venue: MACE (Multi-Agency Collaboration Environment), 3076 Centreville Road, Herndon, VA 20171

Date: September 16-17, 2015

Nearest hotel: Hilton Washington Dulles Airport

Registration: $50 flat fee to cover refreshments

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Background

The goal of the Joint Doctrine Ontology Project is to create a formal representation of the content of (selected parts of) Doctrine that is designed to

- help understand logically how different parts of doctrine interact

- enable the creation of flexible visualizations of how different parts of doctrine interact

- understand dependences between definitions

- ensure that changes in definitions cascade appropriately through all dependent definitions

- enable more efficient web access to and discovery of doctrinal knowledge and definitions of a sort that will facilitate greater coordination of training and operations particular as these involve IT systems working alongside human beings

- provide a benchmark for consistent agile ontology development across DoD and IC.

The project is directed by Barry Smith of the National Center for Ontological Research. Work on the project is being carried out as part of two Rome Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) projects "Mission Assurance through Mission Awareness (MAMA)" and "Living Plan". The goal of MAMA is to enhance cyber-situational awareness by the automated assessment of mission execution through the analysis of network traffic flows. MAMA has two facets, relating to Air Mobility Command and Air Force Space Command. The goal of the Living Plan initiative is to transform Air Force planning and operations assessment from a disjointed static approach based on paper documents into a unified dynamic and computational approach.

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Provisional Agenda

September 16

8:30 Coffee available

9:00 Start

• Barry Smith (NCOR): Introduction to the meeting: Addressing DoD information and coordination needs

• Col William Mandrick (Institute for Military Support to Governance / Joint Special Operations University): War Fighter Ontology

• Lee Krause (Securboration): MAMA applied to Air Mobility Command

• William Tagliaferri (CUBRC): MAMA applied to the Space Mission

• Erik Thomsen (CRA): Overview of Living Plan (AFRL-Rome)

• Ron Rudnicki (CUBRC): Common Core Ontologies (IARPA, I2WD, JIDO, ONR, AFRL, ARL)

• Representative from D-TIC (TBD)

• Representatives from other agencies (TBD)

12:00 - 13:00 Lunch

• Barry Smith (NCOR): Joint Doctrine Ontology: Strategy, Benefits, Applications

• Initial draft modules:

JP1 Capstone (Mission) Ontology (Barry Smith)

JP 3-0 (Operations) Ontology (Barry Smith)

JP 3-14 (Space Operations) Ontology (Alex Cox, CUBRC)

JP 3-57 (Civil-Military Operations) Ontology (Col William Mandrick, JSOU and Fort Bragg)

JP 5-0 (Plan) Ontology (Barry Smith)

• Feedback from Joint Doctrine Staff

• Discussion

• 18:00 Dinner

September 17

8:30 Coffee available

9:00 Start

• Space Mission Data and Space Ontology (CUBRC, AFRL Rome)
• Transcom Mission Data and Transport Ontology (Securboration)

12:00 Lunch

13:00 - 15:30 [Closed Session]