1. DATA TACTICS CORPORATION
SEMANTIC AND ONTOLOGY
INTEROPERABILITY SUMMIT
FEB 12, 2013

2. 2 Data Tactics – Open Source Advocate for Lowering IC IT Costs
Data Tactics Overview

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Our Staff
200+ Employees
• 90% TS/SCI cleared, many with polygraphs
• 25% have Advanced Degrees and Doctorates
• High percentage of Military and Intelligence
• Community Veterans
• Over 10% of Staff are “Data Scientists”
• Three World Class Semantic Researchers
Certification Highlights
• Project Management: CMMI, Project+, and PMP
• Software Development
• VMware
• Cyber Security
• Cloudera Certified Engineers
• Over 40% of Technical Staff
• Hadoop
• Puppet
• MapR
• Greenplum

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Data Tactics: What We Do
• Data Architecture
• Innovation and Design
• Assessment and Benchmarking
• Collaboration and Uniformity
• Data Engineering
• Discovery, Ingestion, and Cleansing
• Scientific Analysis
• Large Scale Computation and Platforms
• Data Management
• Security and Assurance
• Infrastructure and Administration
• Visualization and Dissemination

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Our Methodologies
• Bridging the Academic and Operational Gap
• Translating our operational experience from tactical ground
operations and academia into actionable requirements
• Tactical Engineering
• Team diversity provides a greater understanding of customer
requirements which translates to focused and efficient solutions
• Experience comes from the DoD and Intelligence Community not
just analytical or technical experience
• Staff is trained across multiple technical disciplines
• Right to Left Approach
• Solving our customers’ problems starting at the “right” with “what do
they want from their data”
• No “cookie cutter” approach

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Data Tactics Core Customers
"...cultivating, strengthening, and advancing your data…"
Today's decisions makers are tasked to gather, correlate and analyze information from
ever increasing data sources in shorter amounts of time. Data Tactics is focused on
solving the problems of data management facing the DoD, intelligence community, law
enforcement and the private sector. From tactical to strategic efforts, our team has lead
the creation, integration and implementation of innovative and proven solutions in the
world of data alignment, modeling and analytics

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Data Tactics Key Big Data Analytic Efforts
DNI
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY EFFICIENCY (ITE): FIRST IC/DoD Cloud
NSA
TEST, INTEGRATION, DEPLOYMENT AND SUSTAINMENT (TIDS)
T3 - Security Engineering / Information Assurance
ARMY
DCGS-A STANDARD CLOUD (DSC): FIRST DoD Production Cloud
INSCOM ENTERPRISE PLATFORM (IEP): FIRST DoD R&D Cloud
AIR FORCE
AIR FORCE TENCAP: FIRST DoD Implementation of NSA Ghost Machine Architecture
DARPA
NEXUS 7: FIRST DARPA Cloud
MORE EYES: FIRST Deployed DARPA Cloud
XDATA: Integration and CASE Project
DHS
Cerberus: OI&A Data Analytic Cloud

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Globally Deployed Open Source Clouds
5 Clouds on UNCLASS
17 Clouds on SIPRNET 7 Clouds on TS/SCI 4 Clouds on Coalition
Networks
• 4 at DT in Tyson’s • 1 at AF TENCAP, CO • 4 at DT in VA (DARPA)
• 1 at GISA, Ft. Bragg • 1 at NRL, DC • 1 at DT in VA (IRAD)
• 2 in Hawaii • 1 at DT in VA
• 2 in Germany • 1 at INSCOM • Coalition Networks:
• 7 at APG in MD • 3 for DSC • 1 on CX-I in Afghanistan
• 1 in Afghanistan • 1 on CX-T in Afghanistan
• 1 Cloud on BICES
• 1 Cloud in Germany
Cloud and Big Data Domains are where we
live.
Data is the hard problem.

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Data to Knowledge to Decisions

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Data Deluge

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Data Federation Pyramid
Mike Bergman, “Climbing the Data Federation Pyramid

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Data Driven Decisions
Caron Kogan, “Path to Actionable Insights”

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Introduction
Army DCGS-A Standard Cloud (DSC)
 An Implementation of Semantics and Ontologies
Q&A and Break
Horizontal Integration of Warfighter Intelligence
Data
 Role of Ontology in the Era of Big Data
Q&A and Break
Google Spanner Proof of Concept
 Database on a Global Scale
Wrap Up and Next Steps