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Defense Daily Open Architecture (OA)
Summit
18 November 2010
Marty Meyer
Director, Requirements & Architectures Division
Office of Technology Innovation and Acquisition
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CBP Foundational Technology Interests
Two Main Focus Areas:
• Connectivity – The ability for components (e.g. sensors,
people) on a network to communicate with one another,
and the ease (speed) with which they can communicate
• Open Architecture
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Increased ability to insert cutting edge technology as it evolves
Improved ability to adjust to changes in mission needs
Improved ability to reuse components among systems
Increased ability to leverage commercial investment
Expected reductions in acquisition cycle time
Flexibility – Robustness – Agility – Affordability
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Open Architecture Vision
• Adopt and institutionalize open architecture principles and
processes
– Interfaces, modularity, non-proprietary solutions
• Smaller-scale demonstration prior to procurements
• Objective: Deliver more capability to the agents and
officers in the field faster and at reduced costs
– Transform CBP information flow and support for operations
– Enable technology insertions required to stay in front of ‘the threat’
– Encourage environment of competition and innovation
• Large, medium, small companies alike
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Open Architecture Principles
• Encourage modular designs and data disclosure
• Competition and collaboration
• Interoperable applications and web services
• Reusable applications
– Selected through open competition of ‘best of breed’ candidates
– Reviewed by subject matter expert peers
– Based on data-driven analysis and experimentation
• Ensure life cycle affordability
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Open Architecture Ground Rules
• No development
• Industry has asserted they have OA systems now
• We are prepared to test select solutions
– If we believe a solution can meet our needs
• OA does not mean paying repetitively for integration
– We want to specify interface requirements
– We expect new capabilities to work when we “plug” them in
• If you have a product that meets our needs:
– We want to hear from you
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Questions?
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