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Across the entire Department of Defense, broad leadership goals are transforming the way information is managed to accelerate decision-making, improve joint warfighting, and create intelligence advantages. To meet these broadly defined goals, the Department is taking an integrated approach to delivering a foundation for net-centricity by incorporating network and communications enhancements which will provide improved information assurance and data strategies. The DoD Net-Centric Data Strategy, a vision for managing data in a net-centric environment, compels a shift to a "many-to-many" exchange of data to ensure that all data are visible, available, and usable, when needed and where needed. All data is "posted before processing" with all associated metadata to enable all users and applications to discover and evaluate the utility of shared data. The foundation for net-centricity is the Global Information Grid (GIG): a globally interconnected end-to-end set of capabilities, associated processes, and personnel for collecting, processing, storing, disseminating, and managing information on demand to warfighters, defense policy makers, and support personnel. One of the fundamental concepts in support of the GIG is the establishment of Communities of Interest (COIs), an inclusive term used to describe collaborative groups of users who must exchange information in pursuit of their shared goals, interests, missions, or business processes and who therefore must share vocabulary for the information they exchange.
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