Marine Corps IT

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INSENSITIVE MUNITIONS (IM) funding supports two programs: Insensitive Munitions (IM) and Marine Ammunition Knowledge Enterprise (MAKE). IM RDT&E initiative will focus on the development of improved packaging materials/design, venting technology, development/incorporation of a less sensitive propelling charge and all associated munitions qualification testing of the incorporated technologies. This effort is being executed to directly improve the IM responses for the 120mm Expeditionary Fire Support System (EFSS) XM1103 Smoke and Precision Extended Range Munition cartridges in the areas of Fast/Slow Cook-Off, Fragment Impact and Sympathetic Reaction. MAKE is the enterprise knowledge repository designed, evolved and updated to facilitate knowledge dominance. MAKE provides the enterprise web based access to data and information to enable the decision making process. MAKE is a force multiplier and critical enabler in support of the Life Cycle Management of the Marine Corps $4 billion plus Class V(W) stockpile. DEFENSE MESSAGE SYSTEM (DMS) and follow-on/replacement systems directed by the Joint Staff and HQMC C4 meet the organizational messaging requirement for all classification levels from GENSER through Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS/SCI). Telos Automated Message Handling System (AMHS) is the current implementation that provides Web-interface for system administration and for user messaging (including readers). Organizational messages are used to direct and commit resources, provide user authentication, non-repudiation, confidentiality, and integrity. It also maintains an archive and retrospective search capability to the warfighter and requires security at the Class 4 level (currently implemented with Fortezza and Certificate Authority Workstations. The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) is the lead agency and Global System Manager (GSM) for DMS products. The Department of Defense Intelligence Information System (DODIIS) is the Operations Manager for the Intelligence Community (IC) to support TS/SCI messaging. Within the Marine Corps, there are two distinct acquisition efforts to field DMS to strategic and tactical communication centers to all classification levels. Additionally ongoing efforts at the service and DISA level to transition from the DMS system to alternative mechanisms for the transfer of organizational information. Authorized Acquisition Objective (AAO) 100. MARINE CORPS TRAINING INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (MCTIMS) replaced the mainframe program By Name Assignment, which managed all Marine Corps school seats and interfaced with other service's school seat management programs. MCTIMS is the Marine Corps' official program of record for training and education management and is the single sourcing which the Training and Education Command relies on to manage training personnel, training seats, students, and other training resources. MCTIMS is the enterprise application upon which "standards base" instruction, education and training is built, delivered, tracked, and evaluated. MCTIMS will be establishing the unit training management module for all ground forces. This module will provide commanders an enterprise level application which brings standardization in planning and scheduling training, recording of training against units and individual Marines, provides training assessments and reports combat readiness to Department of Defense (DOD) systems. MANPOWER OPERATIONS SYSTEMS (MOS) is a portfolio of enterprise IT systems and modules that support manpower business operations for the Total Force (active and reserve). The investment in the portfolio improves dataflow and increases reliability, functionality, and accuracy of data while reducing the manpower required to operate and maintain these systems/operations. Development is partially driven by regulatory and policy changes mandated by Congress, DOD, Department of the Navy (DON), and United States Marine Corps (USMC). These systems support all five-tiers of Manpower: 1) Individual Marine, 2) Small Unit Leader; 3) Unit, 4) Installation Personnel Administration Center (IPAC)/Disbursing Echelon, and 5) Headquarters Marine Corp (HQMC) Manpower and Reserve Affairs (M&RA)/ Defense Finance and Accounting Service. The MOS portfolio provides support in functional areas such as permanent change of station assignments, retention, mobilization, manpower planning, line of duty determination, personnel accountability, individual augmentation, personnel records management and maintenance, management of case incidents, civilian professional development planning, pay entitlement determinations, promotion and performance evaluations and self service/visibility of personnel data. MOS interfaces with other systems to provide manpower data and web services functionality for pay and personnel transactions between systems. Systems in the portfolio include Manpower Assignment Support System (MASS), Performance Evaluation System, Total Force Retention System, Optical Digital Imaging - Records Management System, Class I/II/III (composed of Child and Spouse Abuse, Sexual Assault Incident Reporting Database, and Rape and Sexual Assault), Marine Corps Medical Entitlements Data System, Civilian Workforce Development Application, Manpower Mobilization Assignment System, and the Total Force Administration System (TFAS) (composed of Marine On-Line, the Secure Personnel Accountability (SPA) Module, the Drill Management Module (DMM), the Case Management Module (CMM) and Marine Reserve Order Writing System Web-enabled). MARINE CORPS ENTERPRISE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SERVICES (MCEITS) will provide an overarching portfolio of capabilities to deliver "Power to the Edge" for the Marine Corps. Born from an effort to establish a Continuity of Operations Plan of HQMC Automated Information Systems, MCEITS will realign the existing USMC environment of applications, databases, networks, and facilities into an integrated architecture of programs to deliver new information technology capabilities based on a common infrastructure and shared services. MCEITS is a unifying framework of both the Net-Centric Enterprise Services (NCES) to be delivered, and the infrastructure and systems which must be deployed to enable delivery of those services. Initially it will encompass the Operational, Technical and Systems architectures of the garrison environment. However, ultimately it will extend to transform Command and Control (C2) both in garrison and in the deployed environment. Combined with policy, procedure and standards provided by HQMC Command, Control, Communications and Computers (C4), MCEITS will allow for architectural standardization, consolidated management, and seamless interoperability of and access to the data residing in currently fielded applications (business and tactical). Testing efforts will be focused on MCEITS Portal and MCEITS provided services operating within a Service Oriented Architecture environment. MCEITS will ensure the ability to host services and applications in a Web Services enabled environment. MCEITS will also ensure NCES services are able to be federated throughout the Marine Corps to include Content Discover and Delivery, Collaboration and Text Chat, between the service consumer and provider. PAPERLESS ACQUISITION (PA) is an end-to-end contracting and procurement suite of applications and interface that meets the 2001 DOD mandate for a paperless procurement and logistics process and is an integral part of our vested Business Enterprise Architecture compliant solution to business modernization mandates of the Business Transformation Agency. The PA end-to-end architecture includes Purchase Request Builder (PR Builder), Standard Procurement System (SPS), Wide Area Work Flow, Electronic Document Access-Next Generation, and Federal Procurement Data System-Next Generation. MANPOWER PLANNING SYSTEMS (MPS) is a portfolio consisting of three systems; the legacy Manpower Models, the Total Force Data Warehouse, and the replacement effort of the legacy Manpower Models, the Total Force Manpower Models Re-engineering effort (TFMMR). This portfolio provides the tools and data to support the creation of active and reserve modeling of accession, recruiting, training, classification, retention, promotion, mobilization, distribution, and assignment plans. The funding in MPS will provide the technical solution for process improvement and will strategically align manpower systems/functional process with the C4 architecture. MPS interfaces with other systems to utilize manpower data in model analysis and future year planning efforts. MARINE CORPS RECRUITING INFORMATION SUPPORT SYSTEM (MCRISS) is an enterprise level system to automate administrative procedures for the recruiting station operations. This customized automated System, centered on procedures in the Guidebook for Recruiters, Volume I, will dramatically improve efficiency and effectiveness in Marine Corps recruiting. Furthermore, Military Entrance Processing Command requires Marine Corps recruiting to provide information in electronic format only. MCRISS is the Marine Corps Recruiting Command's program to manage applicant processing from commitment to accession/commission into the Marine Corps and Marine Corps Reserve. This enterprise approach allows for efficient sharing of information about potential recruits and recruiter screening efforts, yielding a more cost effective process. TOTAL FORCE STRUCTURE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (TFSMS) is the Marine Corps' authoritative data source for force structure data and provider of the Marine Corps' Tables of Organization and Equipment. TFSMS defines present and future Marine Corps force structure, establishes the Marine Corps baseline for readiness reporting, justifies resource requirements and allocation and enables Marine Corps compliance with the Joint Staff and Office of the Secretary Defense initiative to standardize force structure representation by providing the Marine Corps Global Force Management Organizational Server. TFSMS Block 1 Full Operational Capability (FOC) is scheduled for FY10/FY11 and requires development, testing and fielding of a transactional user web-based training capability to replace the current interim Instructor-led training which consists of a two-day Equipment Class and a two-day Structure Class taught locally twice each month. Mobile Training Teams are used to provide periodic base and installation TFSMS training. TFSMS Increment II Milestone B is scheduled for Sep 09 followed by award of the Systems Integration contract. The TFSMS Increment II Capability Development Document (CDD) defines the requirements and expectations for Initial and FOC. The first major Increment II software release is scheduled for FY11. FOC is schedule for FY15. SECURE OPERATIONAL NETWORK INFRASTRUCTURE CAPABILITY (SONIC)will provide critical infrastructure and operational capabilities that are secure and reliable, enabling command and control from the headquarters to the lowest tactical edge. SONIC will update the current aging classified IT infrastructure and support full Marine Corps' control over its C2 operational network by providing continuity, high availability, disaster recovery, and enhanced secure access to services and data.

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Publication Date: Oct 01, 2011
Source ID: 2906_0605013M_5_1319_PB_2011

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