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D -- JOINT INTELLIGENCE VIRTUAL ARCHITECTURE (JIVA) ON-LINE (JOL) INITIATIVE SOL DP2/01452/00 DUE 041200 POC shafferm@bellatlantic.net WEB: NONE, NONE. E-MAIL: NONE, Shafferm@bellatlantic.net. Request for Information (RFI) regarding the Joint Intelligence Virtual Architecture (JIVA) On-Line (JOL) Initiative The Defense Intelligence Agency is managing the Joint Intelligence Virtual Architecture (JIVA); a GDIP funded program to modernize defense intelligence analytical processes and methodologies. Towards this goal, the JIVA Integration Management Office (JIMO) is currently fielding a web-centric enterprise called JIVA Enterprise 2000 that will reside on the Joint Worldwide Intelligence Communication System (JWICS) network, the SCI communications backbone of the intelligence community. JIVA Enterprise 2000 uses TIVOLI and BMC enterprise management system modules on robustly configured Sun E10K, E450 (running Solaris 2.6, and later, version 8.0) and NT servers (Dell 8450) located at regional sites throughout the world. Using their web browser, analysts will access disparate data sources via the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Broadsword program; conduct advanced text search and data mining via the National Ground Intelligence Center's Pathfinder program; electronically collaborate with other analysts via the Joint Collaborative Environment (also known by its commercial name of InfoWorkSpace); and train via the Joint Military Intelligence Center's Virtual University. In the Fall of this year, additional capabilities will be added that include a Digital Production application that will provide a web-based authoring environment which utilizes XML tagging of content and structure to enable modular production of living multi-media through the use of reusable knowledge objects; Geospatial Information System which will provide dynamic links between geospatial and intelligence data; and the Multi-Domain Dissemination System to enable smart pull and push to warfighters on the Secret IP Router Network (SIPRNET). Planning is now underway for a three-tier (presentation, business logic, and data) architecture that is more closely aligned with the commercial "state of the shelf" World-Wide Web and Internet technologies. This initiative is called JIVA On-Line (JOL) and it will be a global component-based web architecture that provides unitary login to all portal accessible applications, PKI infrastructure that supports a "need to know" security concept; an abstracted data layer for access to global information resources; advanced multi-media data search/mining capabilities; XML enabled data exchange; and a portal that provides a global application tool set accessible by a web browser on a thin client. Analogous to America On Line (AOL), JOL will provide corporate and intelligence information services to the Department of Defense Intelligence community. JOL will provide, or provide access to, an Enterprise Data network (Warehouse and Data Marts) that will include text, geospatial, image, message, and other types of data both in finished form (i.e., reports and analyses), as well as raw and processed data. Data sources include both open source (e.g., newswire), and classified data. JOL needs to provide a full set of collaborative tools and technologies, viewers, search engines, and other tools to support the access, retrieval, fusion and analysis of enterprise data. JOL will be implemented with Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) tools, products and technologies. This Request For Information is to solicit information from Government labs, and FFRDC's on the tools, technologies, concepts, and/or architectures that might be of use in the design, development, fielding, and sustainment of JOL. Government labs, and FFRDC's are requested to respond in one or more of the following areas: Enterprise Portals, data warehouses and data marts; enterprise integration software; messaging, ORB, and transaction monitors; data replication, backup, and synchronization; data search, view (especially 3D visualization of the battlespace, geospatial, and data mining of message traffic); design and implementation approaches; and other related areas that might be of relevance to the design and development of the JOL three tier architecture. The use of browser plug-ins is preferred because of security concerns related to the download of executable elements. Although the use of executable elements such as Java Applets is not prohibited, it will be strongly discouraged. It is expected that JOL will need to support, integrate with, and/or interoperate with systems supported by or using RDBMSs from multiple vendors, Enterprise Java Beans, CORBA, COM / DCOM, etc. Responses should be as short as possible, but in no case more than five pages. Response are 15 days from the date this announcement is posted. Responses should be provided electronically via e-mail enclosure (in MS Word 97 format without macros) to the following address: Shafferm@bellatlantic.net contact with the JIVA PMO is NOT permitted and will NOT be accepted with regards to this RFI. Any amplifying information (e.g. white papers) should be posted on the Internet and URL pointers provided within the response. Vendor responses should describe their views and approaches to accomplishing JOL goals, how and where their products can support those goals, and the precise capabilities that those products provide. ROM pricing for a user base of some 6,000 users at up to 20 sites (or full program licenses) and full contact information should also be provided to Shafferm@bellatlantic.net . Direct contact with JIVA PMO is NOT permitted and will NOT be accepted. Posted 03/28/00 (W-SN438879). (0088)

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