Mrs. Evelyn M. DePalma Director of Procurement

Chief, Defense Information Technology Contracting Organization (DITCO)18 October 2007

Keeping the War Fighter Keeping the War Fighter InformedInformed

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Agenda

• DISA Strategy

• DISA’s Procurement Directorate

• Net-Centric Warfare Tenets

• Net-Centric Warfare Support

• Net-Centric Enterprise Services

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This is the DISA’s Strategy

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Procurement Directorate/Procurement Directorate/DITCO MissionDITCO 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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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

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Tenets of Net-Centric Warfare

DoDDoDNet-CentricNet-Centric

Data StrategyData Strategy

InformationInformationAssuranceAssurance

StrategyStrategy

Global ConnectivityGlobal Connectivity(Transformational(TransformationalCommunications)Communications)

Core EnterpriseCore EnterpriseServicesServices

(Net-Centric (Net-Centric Enterprise Services Enterprise Services

NCES)NCES)

Global connectivity, real-time collaboration, and rapid and continuous information exchange

Global connectivity, real-time collaboration, and rapid and continuous information exchange

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From the “Point of the Spear”…

Extending enterprise services

to the edge

Beyond the traditional DISN

point of presence

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…To Sustaining Base

Combat support computing runs systems that . . .

provide

medical care

pay the warfightersmanage maintenance

provision ships

manage parts and replenish supplies

manage transportation

provide command and control

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Net-Centric Warfare Support

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

• Tools for Net-Centric Warfare

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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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Role of Net-Centric Enterprise Services (NCES)

NCES enabling Warfighting, Intelligence, and Business Systems

FutureCapabilities Focus

Network & Data - CentricInformation pull

Current Systems Net-Centric Capabilities

NowSystems Focus

Stove-piped systems

Information push

New

Systems transformed into discrete capabilities

Joint CapabilitiesContent

Delivery

ContentDiscovery

Collaboration

EnterpriseService

Management

MetadataRegistry

Mediation

ServiceDiscovery

PeopleDiscovery

User Access

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Service Security

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DoD Net-Centric Data Strategy Goals:Implement DoD Data Strategy per Directive 8320.2

TrustedTrusted

InteroperableInteroperable

ResponsiveResponsive

AccessibleAccessible

UnderstandableUnderstandable

VisibleVisibleIs an information resource and associated POC discoverable by most users?

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?

Can it be easily combined or compared with other information or mediated?

Is the source, accuracy and currency of the resource available to users?

Is the resource answering user needs? Are robust, direct user feedback mechanisms in place to guide development?

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NCES

Interoperability of data with

shared semantics

Ability to developand reuse capabilities regardless of platform;

increased flexibilityand agility

Communicate in real-time using

voice, text, and video sessions

Real-time update and alert notification as information changes

Ability to operate in a secure

environment

Web-basedsource for

information onNCES and access

to its servicesAccess to shared/

stored data; improved shared

awareness

ServiceSecurity

Exchange data with unanticipated

users in unanticipated

formats

Mediation

Collaboration

ServiceDiscovery

Confidence thatenterprise services

are available andreliable

EnterpriseService

Management

Locate people and network resources

PeopleDiscovery

MetadataRegistry

Improved Quality of Service

ContentDelivery

ContentDiscovery

Enterprise Services

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We feel a sense of urgency in getting the right information

in the hands of Our WarfightersUNCLASSIFIED

Our Mission: Deliver Capability to the Warfighter

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