Background: The DoD Net-Centric Strategy
The Strategic Planning Guidance FY2006-FY2011 (March 2004) informs DoD Components that, "all efforts to improve information-sharing capabilities will comply with the Net-Centric Data Strategy, the GIG Architecture, and the Net-Centric Operations and Warfare Reference Model."
The DoD net-centric data strategy describes 7 major data goals as:
- Visible - Discover data through catalogs, registries,
- Accessible - Post data to shared space.
stored [so] users can access it.
- Institutionalize - Data approaches incorporated into [ ] processes & practices.
- Understandable - Users can comprehend
structurally and semantically
- Trusted - Users can determine and assess the authority of the source
- Interoperable - Many-to-many exchanges of data occur between systems
- Responsive to User Needs - Perspectives of users
incorporated into data approaches