MAGTF CSSE & SE

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(U) The Marine Air Ground Task Force (MAGTF) Combat Service Support Element & Supporting Establishment (CSSE & SE) consists of mutually supporting Logistics Information Technology (IT) programs that support force deployment, planning, and execution; sustainment and distribution; and contributes to the Combatant Commander's Common Operating Picture to support rapid accurate decision making. MARINE CORPS COMMON HARDWARE SUITE (MCHS) provides Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) workstations (desktop/laptop), servers and other IT hardware to support the Operating Force and other non-Navy Marine Corps Intranet (NMCI) Marine Corps customers. MCHS provides support for two principal groups: 1) Approximately 50 United States Marine Corps (USMC) Tactical and Functional Programs of Record that use COTS IT hardware as part of their fielded systems; and 2) Tactical and other Marine Corps customers not supported by NMCI such as Marine Corps Forces, Europe/Marine Corps Forces, Korea and stand-alone Marine Corps units and schoolhouses. The goal of the program is to enhance overall IT system interoperability and lower the total cost of ownership by centralizing procurement of COTS IT hardware, reducing the number of different configurations of computers, and providing worldwide integrated logistics support for all fielded MCHS hardware. Rapid technology insertion provides ability to develop, test, and evaluate COTS hardware and software configurations for rapid fielding purposes. GLOBAL COMBAT SUPPORT SYSTEM-MARINE CORPS (GCSS-MC) is pursuing an Evolutionary Acquisition (EA) strategy in order to field operationally suitable and supportable capabilities in the shortest time possible that meets the Logistics Advocate goals. EA offers the fastest method to field this highest of advocate priorities and allows for requirements to be time-phased as the users become more familiar with the strengths and weaknesses of the fielded system. In addition to quicker fielding, an EA approach is particularly well suitable for software intensive programs and offers these benefits: rapid delivery of an initial capability with the explicit intent of delivering continuously improving capabilities in the future and a reduction in the "cycle time" from identification of emergent user requirements, priorities and fielding. The GCSS-MC will deliver capabilities in block increments. Block 1 focuses on delivery of retail supply functionality and fielding of this capability is divided into two major independent releases: Enterprise Release 1.1 and Deployed Access Release 1.2. Block 2 will expand the retail supply functionality of Block 1 by implementing Marine Corps-wide wholesale and retail warehouse management and automated information technologies, such as Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) and bar code scanning. Block 2 will concentrate on transportation, distribution and in-transit visibility by focusing on planning the modes, links and schedules of the intra-theater transportation and distribution system. Block 2 requirements analysis and program planning are scheduled to begin during FY12. GCSS-MC was designated an Acquisition Category (ACAT)IAM program in march 2004 and successfully completed a MS B review on June 8, 2007 and a MS C review on 28 May 2010. TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS PORTFOLIO (TSP) RDT&E funding supports the various ongoing and continuing efforts to modernize legacy USMC logistics systems including joint interoperability testing and certification and development to ensure compliance with information assurance testing and certification requirements. Legacy systems include joint programs supporting deployment and sustainment of theater assets as well as existing USMC legacy systems. Joint interoperability testing and certification is an ongoing and continuous requirement that is critical to ensuring all TSP applications are interoperable with other Department of Defense and Joint Services systems. There are also ongoing and continuing efforts to ensure that the legacy TSP applications comply with the latest information assurance requirements. TSP applications are continually updating their security posture through software enhancements based upon the latest cyber threats. Also, mandatory DOD compliance with software patches ensure TSP systems are in compliance with new information assurance vulnerability assessments and ensure data integrity, confidentiality and availability. JOINT FORCE REQUIREMENTS GENERATOR II (JFRG II) is a Global Command and Control System (GCCS) software application designed to provide DOD with a Joint Services, state-of-the-art, integrated, and deployable Automated Information System that supports strategic force movements. JFRG II provides rapid development of force data to satisfy operational planning and execution requirements. It serves as the essential link between service force requirements and validated/sourced unit data. JFRG II permits multi-level planning with entry of equipment and personnel data, transportation/movement data, and the phasing of the total force throughout the entire movement timeline. JFRG II contains an exhaustive joint data library and interfaces directly with the Joint Operation Planning and Execution System (JOPES). JFRG II can generate standard, executive, and ad hoc reports, perform database queries, and export or import data from Transportation Coordinators' Automated Information for Movement System (TC-AIMS) II, MAGTF Deployment Support System (MDSS) II and JOPES. JFRG II operates and functions in either a classified or unclassified environment. PUBLIC KEY INFRASTRUCTURE (PKI) provides security objects and mechanisms used by Public Key (PK)-enabled systems and applications. The primary products of PKI are PK certificates and other certified objects used in conjunction with PK certificates. In addition to PK certificates, PKI provides on-line services (e.g. on-line certificate status checking), and supplies authenticated attributes in PK certificates and/or attribute certificates. PKI is one of a number of security solutions used to protect information and provide attributes to enable critical resources in the Global Information Grid, and is used concurrently with other solutions (e.g. in-line network encryptors to implement the defense-in-depth concept.) In conjunction with PK-enabled applications, PKI is used for identification, authentication, data confidentiality and integrity, and non-repudiation security services. Additionally, PKI functionally will be expanded to the Secret Internet Protocol Router Network (SIPRNET). AUTOMATED IDENTIFICATION TECHNOLOGY (AIT) conducts research and development capabilities testing to expand and enhance options necessary to provide today's Commanders accurate information that allows better communication, coordinating, synchronization, and real-time logistics data transfer capabilities to programs that influence Warfighting evolutions. AIT devices, hardware and software's are continually evolving and RDT&E provides the necessary modernization progression to ensure that technologies deployed today meet the demands of the Commander's by providing faster, more reliable, increase data reliability and expedited logistics' architecture for Marine Corps-unique transportation, distribution and supply systems/software and applications. AIT forecast and plans to focus Web-basing, Web-enablement and Web Services software technology [i.e., machine-to-machine information exchanges between, our customers in the Military Services and Defense agencies, and the Defense industry, based upon the open-standard Extensible Markup Language (XML), Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP), Military-Standard (MIL-STD) formatted protocols']. There are three primary reasons why AIT is pursuing this direction: 1. Web-based applications dramatically reduce the costs associated with fielding new software mission capabilities. (Only a limited handful of central servers need to be updated rather than thousands of employees' desktop computers.) 2. Web-basing and Web Services make AITs software applications much more adaptable to the ongoing and future changes in the Marine Corps procurement and financial management systems that are being implemented in accordance with the Department's Business Enterprise Architecture. 3. AIT has found that Web-based application development is substantially less expensive than traditional client/server or mainframe-based application development. One of the reasons why Web-based development is less expensive is that Web-basing applications allows AIT to productively adapt large amounts of open source software packages with minimal or even zero acquisition and support costs. Also, this allows the Marine Corps to achieve their desired real-time supply chain information "reach-back" capabilities that may extend to the factory floors where parts, components, and systems are produced. The AIT office will continue to test new Marine Corps-unique automated information application modules that will support: the Marine Corps and Defense Supply Chain via-the-Web capabilities; PKI-enabled Web application modules for Commanders worldwide. Also, RDT&E funding includes the continuation of testing and improving AITs accessibility and functionality for external customers, and the continuation of developing and implementing Web Services software technologies (e.g., Simple Object Access Protocol, Universal Discovery and Description Integration, Web Services Description Language). BASE TELECOM [Base Telecommunications Infrastructure (BTI)] provides all Marine Corps installations with the base area network communications infrastructure that connects the end-user to the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) network. BTI sustains upgrades and enhances the telecommunications systems infrastructure for all Marine Corps Installations in order to meet the demands required to support the 5th Element of the MAGTF. BTI is designed to maintain industry currency as it relates to technological capabilities for all non-NMCI voice, video and data services via each installation''s infrastructure. These data services include support for but are not limited to: Telephony (including voice over internet protocol), Enhanced 911, Video-Teleconferencing, Integrated Services Digital Network, Marine Corps Enterprise Network, Energy Monitoring Control Systems, Intrusion Detection Systems, Access Control Systems, Fire Alarm Control Networks and Fleet Training Systems. This includes supporting systems such as optical networks, telecommunications management systems, primary power, voice mail, teleconferencing, and outside plant infrastructure.

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Publication Date: Oct 01, 2012
Source ID: 2510_0206313M_7_1319_PB_2012

MAGTF CSSE & SE

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