C4I Interoperability

Abstract

The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) Major Range and Test Facility Base (MRTFB) includes over 1,084 military, civilian, and contractor personnel and nearly 140,274 square feet of Command, Control, Communications, Computing and Intelligence (C4I)/Global Information Grid (GIG) testing laboratories. Under DISA’s Test and Evaluation (T&E) Executive, the Joint Interoperability Test Command (JITC) serves as the only joint element of the Department of Defense’s (DoD’s) MRTFB, which is a national asset that is sized, operated, and maintained primarily for DoD test and evaluation support missions. JITC is the sole interoperability certifier for all Information Technology/National Security Systems (IT/NSS) for DoD. Additional core missions include testing of DoD terrestrial, space, and tactical communications capabilities, supporting warfighters on technical IT/NSS issues, and assisting Combatant Command to Coalition partner interoperability. JITC, as the only Joint Operational Test Agency (OTA), plans and conducts operational tests and evaluations (OT&E) for DISA, the National Security Agency (NSA), Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), military services, and other DoD agencies. JITC supports agile acquisition and rapid fielding of net-centric capabilities by improving test, evaluation, and certification (TE&C) processes and gaining efficiencies, investigating innovative methodologies and tools, and continuously enhancing the posture of the T&E infrastructure for its customers. In FY 2013, to ensure its relevancy to DoD and the warfighter community, JITC will continue to manage and maintain its current capability base to provide efficient, responsive TE&C services, as well as continue to: • Integrate evolving web-based, cloud and virtual information technology capabilities and designing, implementing and maintaining the Net-Ready Key Performance Parameters (NR-KPP) as part of the core DoD interoperability certification process. These serve as pillars to the TE&C methodology and use operationally realistic test concepts which reduce risk and offer efficiencies across the DoD Enterprise. • Expand test infrastructure and operations to allow for rapid, on-demand provisioning, federation across the DoD and integration with enterprise environments by implementing cloud and virtualized computing concepts in support of Joint/Coalition and Service unique certifications at minimum cost. • Coordinate and manage functional area products required for Joint T&E of Intelligence, Warfighting, and Business capabilities supporting Joint and Coalition warfighting efficiencies and effectiveness. • Provide consistent, repeatable test methodologies that ensure DISA and other DoD Service/Agency acquired capabilities are operationally effective, suitable, and secure; certifying Joint Warfighter systems are interoperable with each other. • Provide T&E guidance/oversight to nearly 130 DISA programs, creating synergy and efficiencies across the large IT portfolio within DISA, gaining insight in new technologies and commercial best practices. • Operate, manage, and maintain DISA’s state-of-the-art test infrastructure and facility to ensure the DISA and JITC missions are executed, while optimizing support to their Service/Agency/Coalition customers. • Evolve IT test policies and processes to proactively support the DoD’s migration towards more agile development and acquisition of IT/NSS capabilities in support of Section 804 Acquisition Reform. • Implement Design of Experiments (DOE) and Science-Based Test Design (SBTD) approaches, concepts, and strategies in T&E methodologies to support the Director, Operational Testing and Evaluation and the Under Assistant Secretary of Defense for Developmental T&E guidance to increase the emphasis on scientific test design and statistical rigor in T&E.

Document Details

• Document Type: R2 Budgetary Justification
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2013
• Source ID: 0208045K_7_0400_PB_2013
• Change Summary Explanation: The FY 2011 decrease of -$2.564 was realigned to support higher agency priorities. The FY 2013 increase of +$0.421 is the result of an internal Agency re-allocation for the reduction in contracting services to support the SECDEF initiative on improving DoD operations and adjustment for inflation in FY13.
• Service Agency Name: Defense Information Systems Agency

Entities

Organizations

• Defense Information Systems Agency

Tags

Communities of Interest

• C4I
• Human Systems
• Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Acquisition
• Combatant Commanders
• Command And Control
• Contracts
• Data Links
• Department Of Defense
• Information Systems
• Joint Test And Evaluation
• Lessons Learned
• Military Communications
• National Security
• Nato
• Tactical Data Links
• Test And Evaluation
• Test Facilities
• Unified Combatant Commands
• United States

Readers

• Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.

Technology Areas

• Fully Networked C3
• Fully Networked C3 - Command and Control
• Space