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Hyperwave KMINCE Initiative to Participate in Quantum Leap-2 Demonstration
of the FY 04 DoD Horizontal Fusion Portfolio
June 25, 2004
Hyperwave, a leading provider of Collaborative Enterprise Content
Management solutions, is the core technology for the Knowledge Management
and Collaboration in a Net-Centric Environment Initiative, which
will participate in the Horizontal Fusion Portfolio Quantum Leap
(QL-2) demonstration to be held 11 August 2004 at distributed sites.
QL-2 expands on the 27 August 2003 Quantum Leap-1 Demonstration,
which demonstrated operational readiness of Net-Centric capabilities.
The Horizontal Fusion Portfolio Initiative is a critical component
of the DoD goal of Net-Centric Transformation to provide access
to vital capabilities and trusted information for Warfighters and
other essential stakeholders across the battlespace. Horizontal
Fusion is sponsored and directed by the Office of the Secretary
of Defense, Networks and Information Technology (ODS/NII), and is
not a single program, but a Portfolio of Net-Centric Initiatives
begun in FY 2003 to show that Net-Centric operations were within
the reach of DoD. Hyperwave provides collaboration and content management
capabilities to support the Portfolio.
This year, Hyperwave is collaborating with 30 other initiatives
in the FY 2004 Portfolio as a partner in the Knowledge Management
and Collaboration in a Net-Centric Environment (KMINCE) Initiative.
Using a common architecture and integration process, Portfolio initiatives
are woven into a Secret-level DoD information environment called
the Collateral Space, which provides content and capabilities to
exploit the Global Information Grid Bandwidth Expansion (GIG-BE).
KMINCE has contributed to expand Warfighter access to time-sensitive,
trusted, and vital information through Horizontal Fusion’s
MARS and other portals into the Collateral Space.
"KMINCE was the first 04 Initiative to integrate into the
Collateral Space,” said Tommy Meeker, Deputy Director of the
Horizontal Fusion Portfolio. Peter Watson, Vice President of Hyperwave,
said, "We are looking forward to continuing to collaborate
with other members of the Portfolio to strengthen critical capabilities
to Warfighters in the global battlespace.”
Prior to entry into the Horizontal Fusion Portfolio, Hyperwave
worked with the U.S. Army National Ground Intelligence Center (NGIC)
to create their Digital Production Program (DPP). Identified as
an exemplar knowledge management capability by the FFRDC MITRE,
Hyperwave was selected by NGIC to help solve their central information
challenge – bringing dynamic information together from many
different organizations to support globally-distributed users. NGIC
users include air, land, ground, and joint Warfighters, many on
different infrastructures (including legacy systems). The Hyperwave-fueled
NGIC DPP portal seamlessly fuses time-sensitive information back
to users for rapid decisions and action.
Based on the NGIC DPP 5-year success story and close relevance
to Horizontal Fusion goals, the NGIC/Hyperwave partnership was accepted
into the FY 04 Portfolio and titled KMINCE.
"Our involvement with the Horizontal Fusion Portfolio, NGIC,
and other military and intelligence community users highlights the
urgency for collaborative solutions to leverage knowledge and intelligence
across all Federal as well as military organizations,” added
Watson. "As CFLICC Commander, LTG David McKiernan has said,
‘The need now is go beyond information superiority to decision
superiority.’ We hope to contribute significantly to collaboration
in knowledge-sharing for Joint Warfighting as well as for critical
domestic U.S. information needs, including Homeland Defense and
Services-Oriented Federal Enterprise Architectures.”
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