Creating and exposing services on the Net is a critical and significant achievement but success does not end there. True Net-Centric success is measured in the numbers of service consumers and the leverage achieved. An important value-added activity for the CoI leadership involves brokering the leverage of services across the CoI participants and other potential organizations outside the CoI. This activity reaches beyond the design and development phases to the consumption of operational services available on the Net. Value-add activities includes supporting services discovery and efforts to facilitate use of existing services available on the Net versus buying or building new. Some of these are:
· Ensure the services discovery infrastructure is in place and properly utilized so that organizations can readily find, understand, and effectively consume services on the Net.
· The CoI leadership can facilitate cross-organization requirements for Net-Centric service enhancement. A service that is built for a primary user base may, with relatively minor adjustments, become more valuable to the Net and consumers that were unanticipated when the service was originally designed. The CoI can utilize their work with the DCGS Service Interface Specifications to recommend service changes to enhance leverage-ability in the Net-Centric Environment.
· The CoI leadership can provide assistance to CoI participants by delivering education and outreach assistance, documentation, collaborative capabilities, and human expertise targeted at promoting understanding, awareness, and leverage of existing services. Changing organizational behaviors in this transformation initiative is crucial to the success of Net-Centricity. This involvement is necessary up front and may subside as the transformation matures and the culture of service discovery and utilization emerges.
· Assist CoI component organizations in the development of cross organization security and data access policy and procedures. A more centralized group such as the CoI leadership can support inter-agency interoperability by establishing standard policy, shared processes, and best practices for cross-organization service access.
· Assist CoI component organizations in building cross organization relationships and in establishing and maintaining memorandums of understanding (MOU) and memorandums of agreement (MOA).
· The CoI leadership can represent the community as a whole in facilitating interoperability with other communities such as national agencies and coalition organizations in DoD's case.
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