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 (CJCSI) 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 implementing collaborative tools into current and crisis operations areas, integrating adequate back-up storage and recovery of voice, video and data across the continental United States to support key leaders, transitioning nuclear command and control to Internet Protocol based networks, migrating data and voice network to next generation satellites, implementing modern cryptological devices, and utilizing wireless networking to support warning systems and situational awareness. In addition, NMCS engineering continues to maintain the NMCS Reference Guide 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, 2018
Source ID
0302016K_7_0400_PB_2018
Change Summary Explanation
The increase of +$0.708 in FY 2018 is due to application of the National Leadership Command Capability (NLCC) Configuration Management process to applicable NMCS systems; engineering support for Northstar and SATSTAR services transition to new NLCC transport infrastructure; and implementation/engineering of expanded conferencing capabilities in support of all NMCS sites. This increase is partially offset by a decrease of -$0.079 attributed to the Service Requirements Review Board (SSRB) contract reduction.
Service Agency Name
Defense Information Systems Agency

Entities

Organizations

  • Defense Information Systems Agency

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Command And Control
  • Command Centers
  • Configuration Management
  • Contracts
  • Department Of Defense
  • Engineering
  • Engineers
  • Graphical User Interface
  • Information Systems
  • National Security
  • Network Protocols
  • Situational Awareness
  • Systems Engineering
  • Teamwork
  • United States
  • User Interface
  • Warning Systems

Readers

  • Defense Financial Management and Audit.
  • Emergency Management and Homeland Security.
  • Tactical Satellite Communications Systems Engineering.

Technology Areas

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

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