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 costs

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Background

The goal of the Joint Doctrine Ontology Project is to create a formal and computer-readable representation of the content of the major doctrinal publications, using as starting point the definitions in the DoD Dictionary (JP 1-02).

Examples of Potential Benefits

1. to doctrine authors:

- enabling the creation of flexible visualizations of how different parts of doctrine interact, or of doctrinal content relevant to particular types of operations or capabilities

- allowing a tracing of dependences between definitions that can help to ensure that changes in definitions cascade appropriately through all dependent definitions when revisions are made

2. to doctrine users:

- enabling more effective discovery of doctrinal knowledge in forms useful for computational reasoning

- providing for each term in the DoD Dictionary its own web page, serving as a repository of usage and of revision history,

3. in the form of new uses for the content of doctrine

- allowing the DoD Dictionary to serve as entry point for web-based searches across multiple repositories of authoritative data

- facilitating greater coordination of training and operations particularly as these involve IT systems working alongside human beings

- increasing automation of processes such as plan specification, ops assessment, BlueForce Status, and scenario development

- allowing new sorts of assessment processes, for example based on measures of adherence to doctrine, processes which may in turn give rise to new ways of computationally identifying areas where changes in doctrine may be needed

The Joint Doctrine Ontology will enable doctrine to serve as a new source of ground truth for ontologists across DoD and IC that will help to identify gaps and errors in existing military ontologies. It will thereby support consistent agile ontology development of a sort that will counteract current tendencies towards silo-formation and failure of interoperation.

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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

• Jason Bryant (AFRL): Introduction to the MAMA Project

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

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

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

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

• Robert Farrell (AFRL): Introduction to the Living Plan Project
• Erik Thomsen (CRA): Living Plan
• 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]