NCOIC Forms Cloud Computing Consortium

September 15, 2009 by ADMIN

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By Kevin L. Jackson, Vice President at Dataline

On Wednesday, 9 September 2009 the Network Centric Operations Industry Consortium (NCOIC) Technical Council formally approved the creation of a Cloud Computing Working Group (CCWG).

Organizationally this new working group will operate as part of the Specialized Frameworks Functional Team.

The initial CCWG charter provides the following direction to the group:

Collaboration & engagement with government Cloud activities, standard bodies, vendors and NCOIC member companies to look at standards-based Cloud Computing to achieve capabilities such as peer-to-peer interoperability, improved usability and trust of the cloud, and portability across clouds.
Document current state of best practices, architectures and blue prints for commercially-available implementations, including examining security implications and how to implement an internal cloud.
“In-Field”, Edge, and Enterprise Clouds - dynamic integration of capability, resource, and accepted configurations to solve a business/operational need
“Infrastructure cloud” standards to develop consensus across vendors to reduce lock-in to a given vendor or platform.
Develop Net-Centric Patterns on well developed instances
Layered Quality of Service for Cloud Computing
Explore the effects between the cloud computing paradigm and other NCOIC deliverables like NIF, NCAT etc., including adding our Cloud Computing taxonomy to the NCOIC Lexicon.

Kevin L. Jackson (Dataline, LLC) will serve as the groups interim chairman while Robert Marcus (SRI International) was designated as the interim Vice-Chairman.

Formal elections for all leadership positions will be scheduled within the month.

The CCWG is enjoying strong NCOIC membership support with a roster that includes representation from the following companies:

BAE Systems
Boeing
Cisco Systems
Dataline, LLC
EADS
Finmeccanica
Harris Corporation
IBM
Lockheed Martin Corporation
OASD(NII) / DoD CIO
SRI International
The MITRE Corporation

For additional information, feel free to contact any of the following:

Kevin Jackson, kevin.jackson@dataline.com
Robert Marcus, robert.marcus@sri.com
TIm Thomas, tim.thomas@ncoic.org

Kevin L. Jackson is currently a Vice President at Dataline, LLC. Prior to this position, he served in various senior management positions including VP, Federal Systems for Strategic Computer Solutions, Worldwide Sales Executive for IBM and VP IT Projects Office for JP Morgan Chase & Co. Kevin also retired from the US Navy earning specialties in Space Systems Engineering, Airborne Logistics and Airborne Command and Control. He also served as a Contracting Officer Technical Representative and Project Manager for the National Reconnaissance Office.

Mr. Jackson received his undergraduate degree from the United States Naval Academy in Aerospace Engineering, a MA in National Security & Strategic Studies from the US Naval War College, and a MS in Electrical Engineering (Computer Engineering) from the Navy Postgraduate School.

Dataline is a leading transformational technology solutions provider to Department of Defense (DoD) and federal customers. Since 1990, our focus has been to integrate best-in-class technologies to provide robust, cost-effective Information Technology (IT) solutions for organizations of all sizes and missions of all criticalities.

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