DISA Net-Centric Enterprise Services Program Achieves Full Deployment and Full Operational Capability
ARLINGTON, VA October 20, 2010 — The Defense Information Systems Agency’s Net-Centric Enterprise Services (NCES) Program achieved its final acquisition milestone on Sept. 29. Four years of design work, development, testing, and fielding culminated in the operational sponsor, United States Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM), declaring that the NCES Program had achieved Full Operational Capability (FOC).
Achieving FOC means that NCES is now able to deploy capabilities that enable real-time, secure operations to ensure the warfighter can access critical services needed to help them accomplish their operational missions. The services available via NCES are secure, highly available, and accessible from any location in the world.
NCES is a portfolio of 11 enterprise services that permit collaborative information sharing between people and systems in a secure manner while allowing users to discover information, expose information, and make decisions based on collaborative exchanges.
“One of the greatest benefits to the warfighter is that they are able to leverage these services to obtain information to enhance their common operational picture,” said NCES Program Manager, Denise Gentile. “NCES is the information sharing pioneer in enabling the joint net-centric vision. We are realizing the tenants of DoD’s efficiency initiatives through deploying enterprise services that eliminate redundancy and duplication across the department.”
Furthermore, as the new capabilities and services are identified and added to the enterprise portfolio, the global presence will expand to coalition partners, as well as both federal and local governments.
“This is not the end,” said DISA’s Vice Component Acquisition Executive, Rebecca Harris, about achieving FOC. “We will keep these enterprise services modernized and relevant to support the operational communities and evolving missions.”
NCES Capabilities:
- Collaboration - enables users to exchange information via any combination of text, audio, video, and graphics
- User Access/Portal - a single point of access to NCES capabilities that provides content rich, user-defined, Web-enabled access to DoD enterprise services via the Defense Knowledge Online (DKO) portal
- Service Discovery - enables Web services and service specifications to be published, categorized, and discovered within the NCES enterprise service registry
- Enterprise Service Management - collects and displays information related to a service’s planned and actual status, health, and performance
- Messaging - provides a high-speed message bus that enables organizations to reliably and seamlessly exchange information
- Mediation - proffers mission-to-mission data transformation, protocol adaptation, and service orchestration capabilities
- Service security – makes available credential validation and attribute retrieval, and outlines a set of rules that describe how to secure information processed by enterprise services
- People discovery - provides an authoritative source for the discovery of people, and attributes about people
- Metadata Registry - enables metadata artifacts to be published, categorized, and discovered within the DoD Metadata Registry
- Content Delivery Service - provides a Defense Information Systems Network (DISN) enterprise level service to accelerate delivery and improve reliability of Web content and services
- Enterprise File Delivery - a lightweight means to synchronize files between geographically separated sites
For more information about the NCES program and the 11 dynamic capabilities offered by NCES, visit http://www.disa.mil/Services/NCES.