Highlights:
- Issue which may need to be floated up: Addressed knowledge management/Intelink question for SEC Jax. Issue raised is an important one and one that the OPCOM Implementation Team might want to address. Well, somebody needs to address it. Here's the issue. Sector Jax has a tight working relationship with the CBP and other agencies in the port. The sector wants to be able to share access, at least read-only access if not full access, to select agency partners for the Maritime Homeland Security Operational Planning System (MHS-OPS). The issue is that this key software, which is going to become more fundamental as the Coast Guard develops the COP and the CIP, is able to be used by all who need it; to ensure adequate working relationship and sharing of knowledge, the MHS-OPS must be shared with agency partners, but it is housed by OSC behind the CGDN firewall. CG-6 will not allow the software to be hosted outside of CGDN, but agency partners can't get in the CGDN, at least now. The Coast Guard is going to need to develop a way to share MHS-OPS (or select and targeted portions of it) with agency partners.
The initial question posed to me was whether or not the software could be hosted on Intelink; the answer to the that is a pretty firm "no" as Intelink is not a hosting platform for non-social media tools. The issue, however, is bigger than just Jax. I recommended Jax contact the command center working group liaison on the OPCOM Implementation Team, but that may not be enough in order for the issue to gain traction, if, indeed, it needs traction. - For information: CG-0931 is engaging CG-01T to establish a formal contract for OPCs to provide services to the various modernization effort's teams. The draft contract is here.
- Arranged a visit to the D7 command center for an agency partner member who works with the University of Miami's Center for Southeastern Tropical Advanced Remote Sensing and is involved in supporting SOUTHCOM, DHS, and DIA on maritime and port security issues. This contact came about from my post Exploiting Uniqueness: The Coast Guard’s command center system posted at the Intelink blog From Inside the Firewall. I brokered a future visit with the senior controller at the command center.
- Drafted initial proposal for Lean Six Sigma Black Belt project at ISC Saint Louis in the dayboard shop of the industrial facility. The Saint Louis dayboard shop manufactures more than 70% of all dayboards used by the Coast Guard, and it is expected that it will take on additional work in the next year or two. The shop is ripe for improvements, and a L/SS project is the perfect intervention. George and Tim W. will serve as the "black belts" for this initiative, if the initiative is supported by the the unit's command and the LANT industrial program manager.
- Completed research and submitted PR for camcorder to record conference, meeting, and training sessions in order to capture these events to broaden the audience using knowlege management tools. While previously, I had been looking at the Canon GL-2, which is the standard camcorder used by the public affairs staff, I realized recently that the GL-2's tape technology made transferring the content to a computer for manipulation and publication was extremely difficult and that easier technology exists. After conducting online research, I visited both Circuit City and Best Buy, speaking with sales representatives about a variety of possibilities. I recommend a camera which has both an internal hard drive and a memory stick option, and determined that the Sony HDR-SR12 with 120GB hard drive would best meet our needs. You can find a copy of the submitted PR here.
- Provided targeted facilitation training to members of the OPCOM Implementation Team. This was to provide coverage for Byron who had duty in the IMT which conflicted with this earlier scheduled gig. Billable hours: 8 (including prep)
- Created new group blog for organizational performance consultants on Intelink (In Pursuit of Organizational Excellence) in order to move the discussion which had been on the Internet at Coast Guard Performance Excellence.
Future look:
- Next week co-teaching the Coast Guard's Team Leader/Facilitator course with two instructors from the Leadership Development Center at Training Center Yorktown. The week's schedule, including teaching assignments, is here. The roster is here; several LANT staff members will be attending this training as students.
- Week of 1 September, attending the Coast Guard HPT Workshop in Williamsburg.
Summary for this reporting period
Hours Worked: 42.5
Travel hours outside work hours: 0
Billable hours/direct client work: 8.0
Leave hours: 1.0
Days away from home: 0
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