Joint/Allied Coalition Information Sharing
Abstract
Through the Combined Enterprise Regional Information Exchange System (CENTRIXS) and Pegasus (formally GRIFFIN), the Multinational Information Sharing (MNIS) Program enables secure sharing of operational and intelligence information and enhances collaboration amongst United States forces, their most trusted allies and additional multinational partners in the ongoing war. This effort also increases overall combat effectiveness by leveraging capabilities and information from all partners and reducing the possibility of fratricide. These coalition information sharing systems are in direct support of the Department of Defense’s (DoD’s) strategic goals to “Win our Nation’s Wars” and “Deter conflict and promote security”. In addition, they are aligned with DISA’s strategy to “accelerate operational effectiveness and efficiency” and “enable sharing of information while staunchly defending it.” The MNIS program currently supports five Combatant Commands (COCOMs) with connectivity in 89 nations and North America Treaty Organization (NATO), 11 Bilateral agreements and 150 sites with in excess of 80,000 users worldwide. The MNIS also evaluates new technologies and develops tactics, techniques and procedures that facilitate the transition of technologies and capabilities into operational multinational information sharing capability enhancements. This is accomplished through the Combined Federated Battle laboratory Network (CFBLNet) and is in direct support of both CENTRIXS and Pegasus. As a planned improvement to the CENTRIXS coalition network, Common Mission Network Transport (CMNT) will provide a distinct and permanent CMNT backbone capabilities; thus enabling NETOPS centers to manage individual networks more efficiently. CMNT provides a common transport for encrypted traffic to meet mission partner communication requirements and establishes a “black core capable” network to facilitate the movement of Virtual Private Network traffic between segments. This capability supports DoD instruction 8110.1 guidance of integrating CENTRIXS and other operational networks into existing DoD general service communications infrastructure as a separate network servicing all DoD MNIS requirements. The MNIS emerging capability, Unclassified Information Sharing (UISS), extends U.S. information sharing capabilities to its Mission Partners (MPs) and beyond, providing an efficient, effective, enterprise-level solutions that allows Combatant Commands to share unclassified information with other U.S. Government (USG) agencies, host nations (HNs), intergovernmental organizations (IGOs), nongovernmental organizations, and other non traditional partners. The employment concept for the UISS capability is to implement an Internet-based capability (IBC) approach in making its capability available to as broad a community as needed to support Combatant Command mission operations. The UISS Capability will enable multi-lateral exchanges of tangible and intangible value and ad-hoc communications through shared communities of interest and issue-specific groups among and across organizations and individuals using a Web-based, “non-mil”, information sharing and collaboration tool that may be accessed anytime, from anywhere, by any user with an Internet connection, and including web-enabled mobile personal devices.
Document Details
- Document Type
- R2 Budgetary Justification
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2013
- Source ID
- 0301144K_7_0400_PB_2013
- Change Summary Explanation
- The FY 2011 decrease of -$1.702 supported higher Agency priorities. The FY 2012 decrease of -$0.871 is due to the FFRDC reduction. The FY 2013 increase of $0.055 is due to inflationary adjustments.
- Service Agency Name
- Defense Information Systems Agency
Entities
Organizations
- Defense Information Systems Agency
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