1. Keeping the War Fighter Informed
Mrs. Evelyn M. DePalma
Director of Procurement
Chief, Defense Information Technology Contracting Organization (DITCO)
18 October 2007

2. DISA’s Procurement Directorate Net-Centric Warfare Tenets
Agenda
DISA Strategy
DISA’s Procurement Directorate
Net-Centric Warfare Tenets
Net-Centric Warfare Support
Net-Centric Enterprise Services
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3. This is the DISA’s Strategy

4. Procurement Directorate/ DITCO Mission
Procure Global Net-Centric Capabilities and Support Customers Through Innovative Contracting.
“We are the link that ties the requirement to the capability, through the industry partner.”
~Evelyn DePalma
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5. Director’s Guiding Principles
We will Adopt Service capabilities and services and make them Joint
We will Buy commercially managed services
We will only Create if there is no other opportunity
Get some capability out there NOW, …then refine
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6. Tenets of Net-Centric Warfare
DoD
Net-Centric
Data Strategy
Information
Assurance
Strategy
Core Enterprise
Services
(Net-Centric Enterprise Services NCES)
Global Connectivity
(Transformational
Communications)
Global connectivity, real-time collaboration, and rapid and continuous information exchange
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7. From the “Point of the Spear”…
Extending enterprise services
to the edge
Three pictures of warfighters for aesthetic use only.
Beyond the traditional DISN
point of presence
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8. Combat support computing runs systems that . . .
…To Sustaining Base
Combat support computing runs systems that . . .
provision ships
provide
medical care
provide command and control
manage transportation
manage parts and replenish supplies
manage maintenance
pay the warfighters
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9. Net-Centric Warfare Support
Tools for Net-Centric Warfare
What we buy: Satellite Bandwidth White House Communications Support GIG-BE Infrastructure JTRS Joint C2/Coalition Information Sharing GIG NCES Teleports NIPR/SIPRnet Software Licenses
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10. What is Net-Centric Enterprise Services (NCES)?
NCES enables information sharing by connecting people/systems who have information* with people/ systems who need information
For people who have information, NCES provides global information advertising and delivery services
For people who need information, NCES provides global services to find and receive information
* Information – data and services (web services)
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11. Role of Net-Centric Enterprise Services (NCES)
Current Systems
Net-Centric Capabilities
User Access
Systems transformed into discrete capabilities
Collaboration
Service Security
Content
Delivery
Metadata
Registry
Joint Capabilities
People
Discovery
Service
Discovery
NCES Benefits:
Increase user access to accurate and relevant information that is automatically updated from a small set of authoritative sources and systems entry points
Decreased planning cycle times
Rapid user access to local and enterprise information/intelligence sources
Accurate and relevant information retrieval from local and enterprise sources
Rapid response to information queries supporting shared situational awareness
Rapid exchange of information in support of shared situational awareness
Global visibility on combat support information
From:
Operational Mission Planning Scenario
Information/Intelligence Fusion Scenario
JTF Combat Scenario
Logistics Scenario
Warfighter Challenges / Legacy Issues:
Substantial time and effort required to identify, aggregate, and coordinate information and deliver operational plans
Information collected from separate sources with individual user access requirements
Heavy reliance on platform centric operational C4 systems that are not connected or cannot share information
Manual collection and synchronization of information from numerous sources is difficult
Time consuming and repeated sequential series of coordination events
Inadequate shared information visibility from legacy systems
Multiple competing authoritative information sources, many of which may be unknown to the user
Plans published to a limited number of users that are known to the planners. Does not consider unanticipated user need for information.
Plans briefed sequentially to individual or limited audiences during the development and approval process
Information cannot be easily shared with non DoD organizations, e.g. NGO, First Responders, and coalition partners.
Mediation
Now
Systems Focus
Stove-piped systems
Information push
Future
Capabilities Focus
Network & Data - Centric
Information pull
Content
Discovery
Enterprise
Service
Management
New
NCES enabling Warfighting, Intelligence, and Business Systems
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12. NCES enables the DoD Net-Centric Data Strategy
DoD Net-Centric Data Strategy Goals: Implement DoD Data Strategy per Directive
Is an information resource and associated POC discoverable by most users?
Trusted
Interoperable
Responsive
Accessible
Understandable
Visible
Is it connected to the network(s), and are tools readily available to use it?
Can it be intelligibly used? Are the semantics well documented?
Is the source, accuracy and currency of the resource available to users?
Can it be easily combined or compared with other information or mediated?
Is the resource answering user needs? Are robust, direct user feedback mechanisms in place to guide development?
NCES enables the DoD Net-Centric Data Strategy
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13. and reuse capabilities regardless of platform; increased flexibility
Enterprise Services
ServiceSecurity
Service
Discovery
Ability to operate
in a secure
environment
Confidence that
enterprise services
are available and
reliable
Enterprise
Service
Management
Real-time update and
alert notification as
information changes
Ability to develop
and reuse capabilities
regardless of platform;
increased flexibility
and agility
Exchange data
with unanticipated
users in
unanticipated
formats
Mediation
Locate people and
network resources
People
Discovery
NCES
This the suite of NCES services available to COI
Not all services will be used by each COI
To date, the most used services are: (1) DoD Metadata Registry (2) Service Discovery (3) Content Discovery
I moved the detailed slides of each service to the backup section. Just talk to some of the services and inform the users of the backups
Interoperability of
data with
shared semantics
Metadata
Registry
Collaboration
Content
Discovery
Content
Delivery
Web-based
source for
information on
NCES and access
to its services
Communicate
in real-time using
voice, text, and
video sessions
Access to shared/
stored data;
improved shared
awareness
Improved
Quality of Service
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14. Our Mission: Deliver Capability to the Warfighter
We feel a sense of urgency in getting the right
information
in the hands of Our Warfighters
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