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Abstract

The Defense Information Systems Network (DISN) is the Department of Defense (DoD) consolidated worldwide telecommunications capability that provides secure, end-to-end information transport for DoD operations. It also provides the warfighter and the Combatant Commands (COCOMs) with robust Command, Control, Communications, Computing, and Intelligence (C4I) infrastructure to support DoD netcentric missions and business requirements. The Defense Red Switch Network (DRSN) is a DoD Secure Voice, Command and Control Network that is controlled and directed by the Joint Staff and the Office of the Secretary of Defense. It provides multilevel secure, rapid, ad hoc, voice calling and conferencing capability to senior leaders including the President, Secretary of Defense, Services, COCOMs, subordinate organizations (military and civilian) and allies. DRSN also supports the National Emergency Action Decision Network (NEADN)/Presidential and National Voice Conferencing (PNVC) and the Enhanced Pentagon Capability/Survivable Emergency Conferencing Network (EPC/SECN). DISN Systems Engineering Support: This effort includes: engineering for Internet Protocol (IP) and Optical transport capabilities to ensure the essential operations of a robust and secure DISN; refreshment of operational systems and network operating systems that instrument and automate the operations, administration, maintenance and provisioning functions and creating a single DISN-wide view for network managers and operators; and the peripheral and component design in support of the DRSN to sustain continued highly classified, critical senior leadership communications capabilities. In addition, Integrated SATCOM-GIG Operations & Management (ISOM): The ISOM is a JCTD project that includes all activities necessary to develop a scalable and policy-based management system that enables dynamic allocations and provisioning of satellite communications (SATCOM) resources. Project activities include developing system architecture, producing and conducting a functional evaluation of the ISOM prototype. Integrated Waveform (IW): The IW program consists of the development, testing, fielding, and initial operations of the IW system. NEADN/PNVC: The NEADN provides selected system engineering for continued development and testing of the Presidential and National Voice Conferencing (PNVC) equipment for senior leaders. The PNVC system provides a military satellite-based, survivable, secure, and near toll-quality voice conferencing capability for the President, Secretary of Defense, Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff, and other senior national/military leaders anywhere in the world as needed. Specifically, the project funding supports the acquisition activities for the PNVC baseband equipment, including critical and essential engineering required to develop new vocoder and cryptographic and audio-summing equipment. Lack of sufficient funding will significantly impact the implementation of an enhanced, survivable voice conferencing capability to the President and other decision makers. Distributed Tactical Communications System (DTCS): The DTCS is a variation of the Iridium Satellite Phone used by the warfighter under the Enhanced Mobile Satellite Service. The variation improves Iridium’s capability to network and sub-network users to improve performance, reduce end-to-end latency and improve data handling to the handset. New handsets and software modifications will be required to utilize the improved service and allow Iridium satellites to “relay” information between the satellites. A separate Network Management capability will be required because the new service cannot leverage the standard commercial Iridium Network Manager. Funding provides engineering, development and testing resources for continued improvement to the Naval Surface Weapons Center’s (NSWC) Technology Prototype to a fully fielded operational capability. Handsets are already fielded as part of a Central Command (CENTCOM) Joint Urgent Operational Needs Statement. Follow-on Research and Development effort includes two additional Handset Variants (Command and Control and Secret Command and Control), Network Management System, User Control Interface, and Satellite Software Modifications. Failure to fully fund would have severe negative impacts on the warfighter in the field in the Southwest Asia area of responsibility (SWA AOR).

Document Details

• Document Type: R2 Budgetary Justification
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2013
• Source ID: 0303126K_7_0400_PB_2013
• Change Summary Explanation: The FY 2011 increase of +$4.343 in base funding is due to one-time costs associated with ISOM and IW development. The FY 2012 decrease of -$0.205 in base funding is due to contractor efficiencies. The FY 2013 increase of +$0.274 in FY 2013 base funding is due to inflationary adjustments.
• Service Agency Name: Defense Information Systems Agency

Entities

Organizations

• Defense Information Systems Agency

Tags

Communities of Interest

• Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Acquisition
• Artificial Satellites
• Command And Control
• Contracts
• Department Of Defense
• Engineering
• Information Systems
• Military Satellites
• Network Architecture
• Network Protocols
• Networks
• Procurement
• Satellite Communications
• Systems Engineering
• Unified Combatant Commands
• United States Central Command
• Vehicles

Fields of Study

• Computer science

Readers

• Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.
• Tactical Satellite Communications Systems Engineering.

Technology Areas

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