National Military Command System-Wide Support

Abstract

The National Military Command System (NMCS), operated by the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, provides the President, Secretary of Defense, and other national senior leaders the ability to maintain situational and operational awareness and command and control of military forces in all crisis and/or national emergency contingencies. DISA's NMCS Engineering program meets the NMCS Systems Engineer responsibilities, per Department of Defense Directive (DoDD) S-5100.44 and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Instruction 3280.01B, to provide the Joint Staff with operationally efficient and cost-effective engineering solutions to ensure that components and facilities satisfy operational requirements including emergency messaging, situational awareness, crisis action, and information management. The NMCS engineering program is vital in supporting the government's ability to safeguard national security and respond to contingencies globally and/or nuclear war. NMCS Engineering focuses on the implementation of collaborative tools into current and crisis operations areas, the integration of adequate back-up storage and recovery of voice, video and data across the continental United States to support key leaders, transition of nuclear command and control to Internet Protocol (IP)-based networks, migration of data and voice network to NEXT-GEN satellites, implementation of modern crypto-logical devices, and the utilization of wireless networking to support Warning Systems and situational awareness. In addition, NMCS Engineering continues to maintain the NMCS Reference Guide (NRG) required by DoDD S-5100.44 and to develop engineering and test plans for the installation of hardware and software systems utilized within the NMCS.

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Document Details

Document Type
R2 Budgetary Justification
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2013
Source ID
0302016K_7_0400_PB_2013
Change Summary Explanation
The FY 2011 decrease of -$.004 supports higher Agency priorities. The FY 2013 increase of -$.005 reflects inflationary adjustments.
Service Agency Name
Defense Information Systems Agency

Entities

Organizations

  • Defense Information Systems Agency

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Command And Control
  • Command Centers
  • Control Systems
  • Cost Analysis
  • Costs
  • Department Of Defense
  • Engineering
  • Information Systems
  • National Security
  • Network Protocols
  • Situational Awareness
  • Systems Engineering
  • Teamwork
  • Test And Evaluation
  • United States
  • Warning Systems

Readers

  • Emergency Management and Homeland Security.
  • Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.

Technology Areas

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

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