GIG Evaluation Facilities (GIG-EF) and GIG Enterprise-Wide Systems Engineering Advisory Activities
Abstract
This program element will support enterprise-wide systems engineering, information management and information technology activities focused on the development, integration, testing and assessment of capabilities and applications in support of joint and coalition warfighter needs. Resources will support net centric collaborative development and operations to improve situational awareness, interoperability and performance and operational planning efforts. This program will instantiate enterprise-wide systems engineering guidance and provide technical solutions to solve enterprise interoperability and performance issues to enable the warfighter, intelligence, and business communities to meet their respective mission requirements. This program is funded under Budget Activity 7, Operational System Development, because it supports engineering development. The Enterprise-Wide Systems Engineering (EW SE) project provides the engineering resources necessary for performing the Global Information Grid (GIG) enterprise-wide systems engineering oversight function and supplying effective guidance and direction for the ongoing evolution of the GIG from an end-to-end (E2) perspective. The project provides the capability needed to enable the DoD programs to synchronize and integrate GIG Net-Centric solutions to meet the E2E mission execution. Resources will be applied to enterprise-wide systems engineering topics related to the successful integration of several programs that will form the GIG in areas such as information assurance (IA), quality of service (QOS), network management, interface definition and standards selection, and routing protocols. The EW SE effort: - Provides continuous oversight of the GIG’s evolution - Develops and evolves an enterprise-wide technical foundation to support the GIG evolution using an innovative, standard based technology approach and industry best practice - Analyzes gaps and identifies new capabilities needed for enterprise-wide applications by synchronizing an integrating existing and future capabilities from the DoD programs - Oversees cross-program and cross portfolio GIG experiments, pilots, demonstrations, testing and studies to ensure operational relevance of the technical foundation - Provides oversight of technical and operational compliance with the technical foundation - Maintains a GIG enterprise-wide technical foundation - Provides an independent, overarching review of technology and interface standards. - Ensures technical issues are identified early and schedules synchronized to produce a jointly interoperable, timely and cost-effective architecture development. - Prevents costly program reworks and restructuring, and more importantly, avoid delays in providing joint warfighter connectivity. Note that FY09/10/11 funding disconnect resulted from duplicate cuts to a program titled Horizontal Fusion (HF) formerly part of this PE to support priority net centric transformation. These cuts not only zeroed out the HF funding but also cut deeply into the GIG Evaluation Facility and GIG End-to-End Systems Engineering Activities in FY2010.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Project
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2011
- Source ID
- 199_0305199D8Z_7_0400_PB_2011
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