Tuning Emerging Technologies… Making Them Play Together: From Stovepipes to Wind Chimes!

1. Tuning Emerging Technologies…Making Them Play Together: From Stovepipes to Wind Chimes! Susan Turnbull, GSA & Richard Spivack, NIST Co-chairs, Emerging Technology Subcommittee and Owen Ambur, Former Project Manager and ET.gov creator

2. Emerging Technology Subcommittee - ET SC Tuning ET Together - From Stovepipes to Wind Chimes Purpose: An “incubator” organizing process to accelerate discovery, maturation, and validation of capabilities that leverage FEA principles and priorities. The key components of charter : • Greater foresight and discernment as established and emerging technologies compete and converge • Longer life-cycles through market-based, open standards technologies • Common understanding of business scenarios to anticipate performance outcomes and mitigate risks. • Improve strategic foresight and collaboration capacity around strategic IT assets. Key FY08 Activities • Conduct ET Life-cycle process http://ET.gov • Conduct Collaborative Expedition Workshops with GSA and Subcommittee on Networking for IT Research and Development ET SC Co-chairs

3. Key FY08 Activities • Conduct http://ET.gov Purpose: “Continue to develop more efficient and effective methods for sharing information on emerging technologies.” CIOC Strategic Plan ET.gov stages: 1. Identification: anyone registers ET component using XML schema 2. Subscription: community forms around high potential component 3. Stewardship: community recognized by ET SC (i.e. IPv6, StratML)) 4. Graduation: component recognized by Services SC for inclusion in CORE.gov Key FY08 Actions • Explore partnering with other federal settings involved in technology evaluation and transfer • Conduct Collaborative Expedition workshops to support networking among ET communities Contact Information

4. Key FY08 Activities 2. Conduct Collaborative Expedition Workshops Purpose: Monthly open workshops to encourage collaboration among government and community implementers of IT and to demonstrate promising capabilities emerging from IT research that aligns with FEA principles • “Facilitate strategic dialogue among communities of interest. Through the Expedition Workshops, sponsored by AIC, interested participants experience and learn about new opportunities to adhere to sound architectural principles and implement shared, service-oriented solutions.” from CIOC Strategic Plan • Leadership in virtual collaboration (i.e. Data Reference Model, Geospatial Profile) Key FY08 Activities/Deliverables • Organize around business scenarios from ET.gov & IT R&D communities that address CIOC Strategic Plan and Architecture Principles for the US Government. • Organize around CIO requests. ET SC co-chairs SEW CG co-chairs

5. Key FY08 Activities – Graduation to Services SC 3. Strategy Markup Language - StratML Purpose: To facilitate collaboration around shared missions and reduce the number of duplicative performance metrics • XML vocabulary and schema Federal agency strategic plans and potential for performance plans, and performance reports all aligned with FEA • More than 50 Federal strategic plans rendered in StratML • Support strategic alignment among partners and maintain currency readily 4. IPv6 Purpose: To provide leadership and coordination in the adoption of IPv6 • Explore business scenarios to anticipate performance outcomes and mitigate risks. Key FY08 Actions • Establish agreement with Services SC for ET components graduating to CORE.gov • Explore interest in StratML from science & IT R&D agencies StratML IPv6 XML CoP