NEXT GEN ENTERPISE NET'K (NGEN) SOFTWARE PLT PG

Abstract

Section 872 of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for FY 2018 (P.L. 115-91) directed the Secretary of Defense to task the Defense Innovation Board (DIB) to undertake a study on "streamlining [the Department's] software development and acquisition regulations." The Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment (USD(A&S)) submitted the final report to Congress in May 2019. The DIB's report made recommendations aimed at transforming the way the Department acquires, develops, and deploys software and manages digital talent. The DIB encouraged the creation of a "new appropriation category for software capability delivery that allows (relevant types of) software to be funded as a single budget item, with no separation between RDT&E, production and sustainment." The recommendation stemmed from the DIB's observation that current law, regulations, and policies (including those governing program funding and appropriations) treat software acquisition and development as a series of discrete, sequential steps; and that this approach is at odds with modern software, which is continuously updated to provide new functionality. This program has been designated as a Software and Digital Technology Pilot Program by the Secretary of Defense or the explanatory statement regarding this Act. The funding in this line is requested to be used for expenses necessary for agile procurement, production, modification and operation and maintenance of the pilot program requirements. This is not a new start program. Funds have been realigned from the following budget lines: OMN BSIT PE 0208550N OPN BLI 8164 RDTEN 0605013N Project 2901 Next Generation Enterprise Network (NGEN): NGEN is the acquisition program for Navy Marine Corps Intranet (NMCI) and Outside the Continental United States (OCONUS) Navy Enterprise Network (ONE-Net). NGEN provides secure, net-centric data and information technology (IT) capabilities and services in support of up to 800,000 United States Navy (USN) warfighters and end users. NGEN provides core IT-based network transport, compute, storage, end-user, mobility, systems integration, service desk, and computer network operations and defense services. The program provides an modernized enterprise approach to deliver a fully integrated, interoperable, and secure networking platform. The network has begun transformation and modernization efforts towards a commercial standard approache to improve end-user experience and application performance, enabling optimal consumption of cloud-based services, allowing for greater accessibility to critical data; expanding the mobile platform; and shifting to a framework that emphasizes "data protection" as a fundamental element of cybersecurity. Once the convergence of NMCI and ONE-Net is complete, the Navy will have a single Navy Enterprise Network (NEN). COVID19 pandemic drove a major shift and pivot in the 5 year transformation plan. Rapid expansion of the network infrastructure was necessary to meet Navy's telework demands. Major expansion of Virtual Private Network was necessary from 3 to 5 sites (capacity increased to 140,000 concurrent users); Outlook Web Access expanded to support 300,000 users; and Microsoft O365 limited rate deployment expanded to accelerate 160,000 users. The redirection of priorities and acceleration required the update of circuit infrastructure to 10G. ONE-Net VPN capacity increased to support 32,000+ users. The Navy Digital Platform (NDP) is a modern digital platform that encompasses optimal cloud consumption, domain singularity, mobility, resilience, and enhanced security. The modernized platform is on parity with industry, which is ready to meet changing mission needs and achieve competitive Naval advantage through a constant state of Information Readiness. This multi-year effort and investment is needed to finalize and adjudicate a Target Enterprise Architecture (TEA), identify obsolescent technologies associated with Navy network platforms, and aid in the integration of users and services, implement enabling business processes and service management frameworks, and provide sustaining activity guidance for future investment areas across all classification levels and operating environments. Current on-premise infrastructure must transform and evolve to a future cloud native environment to enable the warfighter to access data across multiple domains. The modernization of Next Generation Enterprise Network is the critical path in designing the Navy Digital Platform. Through recapitalization of applicable legacy hardware and converging network infrastructure toward a cloud native design, Next Generation Enterprise Network will reduce the need for constant platform (base, ship, mobile device) reconfiguration and ensure the end-user receives current capabilities required to perform job functions at various classification levels. Multifactor authentication and centralized management of user personas enables zero-trust based cyber security from the onset of system development throughout the entire lifecycle. Uniform enterprise security controls across the system lifecycle ensures consistency across the development, testing, and operational phases deployment workflow thus reducing rework. The flattened network design will enable contracting and acquisitions to quickly deploy solutions from the labs to the user community in near real-time. Using a rapid systems engineering approach, the Next Generation Enterprise Network will leverage leading industry experts to design and execute a transformative architecture across the spectrum of services. Driving towards the design of the Navy Digital Platform and digital business and service delivery, the NGEN-R family of contracts were awarded. The End-User Hardware Services (EUHW) was awarded on October 8, 2019 without protest. The Service Management, Integration and Transport (SMIT) was awarded on February 5, 2020.

Document Details

• Document Type: R2 Budgetary Justification
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2022
• Source ID: 0608113N_8_1319_PB_2022
• Change Summary Explanation: FY22 increase from FY21 due to the transfer from BA 1, OMN Enterprise Information Technology (BSIT), BA 5 PE 0605013N Project 2901 Navy Enterprise Service Tools (NEST), and BA 7 OPN Next Generation Services (8164) to RDTEN BA 8, Next Generation Enterprise Network (NGEN) Pilot Program as part of the Software Funding Pilot Program. Budget Activity 8 BA-08 within Research, Development, Test and Evaluation (RDT&E) is intended to evaluate the effectiveness of a single budget appropriation for Software and Digital Technology that encompasses development, implementation, fielding, and sustainment. As compared to the previous FY21 budget lines, the FY22 NGEN reflects a net increase of $254.1M due to the following: - Network Management decrease of ($7.89M)as a result of realigning compliance based tech refresh efforts under Transformation in FY22; - Enterprise Software Management increase of $124.05M for Microsoft Licenses to include newly added security baseline; Cybersecurity increase of $12.00M for the addition of NetScout, ForeScout and Verodin capability; - Information Transport decrease of ($60.90M) as a result of realigning compliance based tech refresh efforts under Transformation in FY22; - Non-IT Infrastructure increase of $3.90M in order to replace UPS batteries and upgrade HVAC units, fan replacements and UPS capacitors; - Cloud Services increase of $57.90M in order to support M365 stand up and operations for 472,000 users accelerated by COVID-19 pandemic; - Transformation increase of $125.00M required to transform the Navy Enterprise Networks and solve the security and technology improvement efforts, such as systems/security engineering and integration, production, installation and implementation of network infrastructure, in support of merging ONE-Net and NMCI operating models. FY21 NGEN $701.1M budgeted across appropriations OMN, OPN and RDTEN BA05. Appropriations breakout follows: - FY21 $526.1M budgeted in OMN BSIT PE 0208550N: Network Management $367.8M, Enterprise Software Management $120.0M, Cybersecurity $22.8M, Information Transport $13.9M, Non-IT Infrastructure $1.6M, Cloud Services $0, Transformation $0. (In FY21 a portion of Network Management and Information Transport is realigned to Transformation in FY22.) - FY21 $173.2M budgeted in OPN BLI 8164: Network Management $77.1M, Cybersecurity $17.5M, Information Transport $73.0M, Cloud Services $5.6M, Transformation $0.0 - FY21 $1.8M budgeted in RDTEN 0605013N Project 2901: Network Management $1.8M FY22 NGEN $955.2M previously funded in OMN, OPN and RDTEN. Appropriations breakout follows. - FY22 $778.0M budgeted in OMN BSIT PE 0208550N: Network Management $409.6M, Enterprise Software Management $244.1M, Cybersecurity $39.3M, Information Transport $19.0M, Non-IT Infrastructure $5.5M, Cloud Services $60.5M, Transformation $0. - FY22 $175.0M budgeted in OPN BLI 8164: Network Management $27.0M, Cybersecurity $13.0M, Information Transport $7.0M, Cloud Services $3.0M, Transformation $125.0M - FY22 $2.2M budgeted in RDTEN 0605013N Project 2901: Network Management $2.2M
• Service Agency Name: Navy

Entities

Organizations

• United States Navy

Tags

Communities of Interest

• Cyber
• Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Application Software
• Cloud Computing
• Computer Network Security
• Computer Networks
• Computers
• Cyberattacks
• Cybersecurity
• Data Centers
• Electronic Mail
• Information Systems
• Internet
• Local Area Networks
• Network Architecture
• Network Protocols
• Systems Engineering
• Test And Evaluation
• Uninterruptible Power Supplies

Fields of Study

• Computer science

Readers

• Cybersecurity.
• Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.

Technology Areas

• Cyber