Regional International Outreach (RIO) - Partnership for Peace Information Management Systems (PIMS)

Abstract

Regional International Outreach (RIO) and Partnership for Peace (PfP) Information Management System (PIMS) is an Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) initiative to deploy a common information technology platform to improve international partner outreach and collaboration efforts in a federated environment. A federated environment – characterized by the capacity of DoD institutions to directly share participants and content across websites - fosters networks of partner influencers and enables better use of DoD resources through collaboration among the Regional Centers for Security Studies, PfP allies, and other DoD educational institutions and partners as required. The program uses a spiral methodology (making available capabilities as developed), to speed the delivery of open source collaboration technologies the user community. DSCA oversees execution of the research and development of the RIO-PIMS effort and its operations, and ensures that the program addresses DoD security cooperation requirements in the context of defense, interagency, and international information sharing and collaboration needs. FY 2010 will be the first year combining the RIO and PIMS projects to leverage management, integration, and funding resources. This unification streamlines the research and development funds into one information sharing and collaboration technology platform. The RIO effort focuses on improving collaboration among international outreach efforts of the Regional Centers for Security Studies (Africa Center for Strategic Studies, Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies, Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies, George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies, Near East South Asia Center for Strategic Studies), the Combatant Commanders, the Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA), OUSD (Policy), and other designated DoD educational institutions. It provides DoD and international partner security practitioners a platform to share information, collaborate on projects, and improve administrative activities. It also provides the ability to form collaborative communities of interest around security issues. The PIMS technology effort enables EUCOM and CENTCOM partnership for peace missions by providing technology and management support/practices to the PfP countries. Through bilateral and multilateral security cooperation, PIMS facilitates information sharing and knowledge management concepts in accordance with U.S. policy. PIMS is a part of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Enlargement Facilitation Act of 1996 and implements the Congressional endorsement for the modernization of Defense capabilities in eligible PfP countries relative to their telecommunications infrastructure. The PIMS program provides allies and partner countries the ability to collaborate in critical cooperative activities that underpin the spirit of the PfP program. PIMS supports PfP coalition initiatives through development of distributive collaboration tools to support aspects of U.S. and NATO-approved PfP cooperative activities. PIMS also develops special capabilities such as mapping and imagery, multinational digitized imagery, and data derived from remote sensing technologies. This support is critical to achieve the interoperability/integration outlined in the Guidance for the Employment of the Force. PIMS supports an Internet-based education and collaboration environment via a Consortium of Defense Academies and Security Institutes; an exercise simulation network; and a cooperative network of nationally sponsored PfP training centers. PIMS is also used to support an electronic crisis information exchange capability among the countries of Southeastern Europe.

Document Details

• Document Type: R2 Budgetary Justification
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2011
• Source ID: 0605127T_7_0400_PB_2011
• Change Summary Explanation: FY 2009: OMNIBUS reprogramming reduced program by $75K. RIO-PIMS was reduced by $50K and OHASIS was reduced by $25K. Received 2.1M UFR funding for Regional International Outreach. FY 2010: Funds for OHASIS moved to PE 0605147T. FY 2011: The FY 2010 PB did not have any outyear data. In FY 2011 Regional International Outreach - Partnership for Peace Information Management Systems requires $2.1M to continue to deploy a common information technology platform to improve international partner outreach and collaboration efforts.
• Service Agency Name: Defense Security Cooperation Agency

Entities

Organizations

• Defense Security Cooperation Agency

Tags

Communities of Interest

• Engineered Resilient Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Acquisition
• Combatant Commanders
• Humanitarian Assistance
• Information Exchange
• Information Science
• Information Systems
• Knowledge Management
• Life Cycles
• Nato
• Natural Languages
• Networks
• Project Management
• Software Development
• Test And Evaluation
• Unified Combatant Commands
• United States Central Command
• Websites

Readers

• Defense Technology Research and Development.
• International Relations and European Studies

Technology Areas

• Microelectronics