Practical Challenges Facing Communities of Interest
in the Net-Centric Department of Defense
January 2007
C. L. Connors, The MITRE Corporation
Dr. M. A. Malloy, The MITRE Corporation
ABSTRACT
The United States Department of Defense (DoD)—one of
the world's largest heterogeneous and distributed
enterprises—is transforming its information management
and sharing approaches in accordance with a net-centric
data strategy. DoD traditionally has organized data
practices along well-defined trust boundaries, with
sharing occurring on a "need-to-know" basis. New
solutions are expected to promote a "need-to-share"
paradigm that enables all information to be available to
all appropriate consumers within the enterprise. DoD
has mandated the transformation to occur through the
efforts of "coalitions of the willing," better known as
Communities of Interest (COIs). How is DoD
progressing towards its vision and what challenges do
COIs face? Although the experiential insights we offer
here are viewed from a DoD perspective, these challenges
are equally relevant for thoughtful consideration by any
commercial enterprise embarking on a similar
evolutionary journey.
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