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NCESNet-Centric Enterprise Services

Lynda D MyersLynda D MyersDISA, Center for Enterprise CapabilitesDISA, Center for Enterprise Capabilites

703-882-1114703-882-1114myersl@ncr.disa.milmyersl@ncr.disa.mil

7 February 20037 February 2003

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Introduction

• Background• NCES Vision• Value Added to the Warfighter• Business Value Added• Transition to NCES/Timeline• Issues• Summary

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Background

• NCES will be a common set of information capabilities for the Global Information Grid (GIG) to:– Task, post, process, use, store, manage and protect information

resources on demand for warriors, policy makers, and support personnel

– Facilitate interoperability across systems• NCES will support:

– Entire DoD and Intelligence Community (IC)– Conventional and Nuclear Warfighting – Business units (e.g., FMMP)

Networks with services that enable Precision Search,Smart Data Pull, and Collaborative Operations

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NCES will be the approach to:

• Standing up Joint capabilities-based infrastructure needed for timely, secure, ubiquitous edge user access to decision quality information

• Enabling edge users to – Rapidly & precisely discover information resources, – Efficiently task information providers, – Post any information they hold, and – Dynamically form collaborative groups for problems

solving

• Providing robust security for and coordinated management of netted information resources

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NCES Vision

CoreEnterpriseServices

(CES)

Comms

Backbone

Community-of-Interest

(COI) Capabilities

Users

MessagingESM

Discovery Collaboration

Mediation Security/IA

AppStorage

UserAsst

Levels of Services above

core level

Support real-time & near-real-time warrior needs and business usersSupport real-time & near-real-time warrior needs and business users

C2

Intel

Weapon Systems

Dynamically Created COIs

Logistics

Sensors

Personnel

Finance

Etc.

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NCES Value Added to the Warfighter

• Pull the right info, at the right time, in the right format to meet operational/tactical needs– Compress decision cycles by providing near real-time

connectivity/computing power for warfighters and other national security users to enhance collaboration & parallel vice sequential actions

• Support real-time battle management and operations• Provide global, assured, and homogeneous access to

heterogeneous intelligence data and other information from all sources

• Allow rapid exploitation of diverse data sources by individual and organizational users in a manner that can be customized to meet specific mission demands

Common information producer/consumer services available to all GIG users.

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NCES Business Value Added

• Eliminate redundant capabilities• Enable Financial Management Modernization Program

(near term)• Allow for rapid exploitation of diverse data sources by

individual and organizational users in a manner that can be customized to meet specific mission demands

Common information producer/consumer services (software, processes, and procedures) available to all GIG users.

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NCES MS BBlock I

NCES BLOCK I

Spiral 1

Spiral 2Spiral

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NCES BLOCK II

Spiral 1

Spiral 2

MS CBlock I

Spiral 3 . . . n

MS BBlock II

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Transition to NCES

Note: NCES will transform infrastructure services that currently exist in legacy programs/projects such as COE, IDM, DMS, DCTS, and others. Legacy systems will require sustainment until existing infrastructure can be transitioned.

FY02 FY03 FY04 FY05 FY06 FY07 FY08 FY09

COE 4.X Development NCES Legacy Information Capabilities Sustainment

Concepts/Pilots NCES Development/Integration

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NCES MS B Timeline

AoAGuidance1 Nov 02

DISA Submit StudyPlan

3 Feb 03

OIPT IPR & Decision Points

Final AoADec 03

MS B2QFY04

Draft AOA1 Oct 03

FY03 FY04

31 Mar 03 15 Jun 03 22 Sep 03

MS AOIPT

7 Nov 02

Program Budget Review 05

StudyPlan Approval

17 Feb 03

NCES ORD, TEMP, C4ISP

CCA and FMMP Compliance

DCIO NCES Transition Policy Development

Apr 03

Acquisition Strategy and APB

DPG 05

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Issues

• Graceful legacy transition is important• Need for extensive Teamwork

– Must be collaborative with other Service/Agency initiatives

– PSA/Service/Agency leads for COIs

• Deployment strategy needs refinement (centralized, decentralized, federated, integrated)

• Security, Security, Security• Must consider the “last tactical mile”

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Summary

• NCES is the approach to providing the GIG infrastructure needed for timely, secure, ubiquitous edge user access to decision quality information