Advanced Combat Systems Tech

Abstract

The Advanced Combat System Technology line is intended to evolve the technical and business practices for programs to change to an open architecture construct. The program was constructed to mature both technical and business model integration for warfare systems programs of record in an open architecture environment. The original priority was the design of incorporating the principles of modular design and design disclosure, reusable application software, interoperability and secure information exchange, lifecycle affordability and encouraging competition and collaboration. Project Unit 0324: Funding is limited to maintaining a repository environment that is intended to improve transparency of design disclosure and to support the principle of cross-domain reuse. The other elements of the Naval Open Architectures (OA) transformation effort are only to be accomplished as efficiencies in managing the repository are achieved. Those elements include; ensuring that all Naval systems, family of systems, and programs move to modular OA in accordance with Department of Defense (DOD) 5000.1 dated 12 May 2003 which mandates all DOD programs to utilize open systems architecture in order to rapidly field affordable, interoperable systems. By direction of the Navy Service Acquisition Executive (SAE), PEO IWS is assigned overall responsibility and authority to direct the Navy's OA effort. That policy established a need to coordinate acquisition strategies, develop guidance, and develop analysis of alternatives to determine OA software reuse practices within and across all Navy Communities of Interest (COI - Surface, Subsurface, Air, Space, and C4I). This project was also to work closely with the T&E and certification communities in defining regression testing and certification requirements for all OA Commercial Off-the-Shelf upgrades and software reuse applications. This project seeks to create a strategic shift in the acquisition process to facilitate cooperative cross-domain/COI business relationships. This will improve economies of scale throughout the Navy. This development effort will identify the business case and return on investment for moving the Navy towards an open systems approach, support the development of open systems technologies, and integrate best practices for open systems development within Naval acquisition. This Naval OA project would have ensured Navy-wide system architectures would become extensible and scalable in function, capacity, and workload to meet Joint warfighting requirements. This also includes the identification and development of common software components, functions, and reuse methodologies. In summary, this funding supports only the management of a reuse repository and can be used to evolve business, systems engineering and cultural changes required across all Naval programs as they are migrated to function in a joint net centric warfare environment.

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Document Details

Document Type
R2 Budgetary Justification
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2011
Source ID
0603382N_4_1319_PB_2011
Change Summary Explanation
Technical: Not applicable. Schedule: Not applicable. FY11 from previous President's Budget is shown as zero because no FY11-15 data was presented in President's Budget 2010.
Service Agency Name
Navy

Entities

Organizations

  • United States Navy

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • C4I
  • Cyber

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Application Software
  • Best Practices
  • Commerce
  • Computing System Architectures
  • Cost Analysis
  • Costs
  • Cross Domain
  • Engineering
  • Information Assurance
  • Information Systems
  • National Security
  • Naval Operations
  • Navy
  • Systems Engineering
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Warfare

Fields of Study

  • Computer science
  • Engineering

Readers

  • Defense Acquisition Program Management
  • Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.
  • Software Engineering.

Technology Areas

  • Space

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