GPS Enterprise Integrator
Abstract
The Global Positioning System (GPS) Enterprise Integrator (EI) integrates, synchronizes, tests and verifies the seven ACAT I Defense Acquisition Programs that constitute the GPS Enterprise to deliver reliable Positioning, Navigation, and Timing signal capability to military operators, the civil user community, and international partners. The Government Program Office owns and approves the technical baseline and is responsible for the successful fielding of all the GPS Segments. To successfully execute its responsibilities, the Government relies upon the specific expertise of the GPS Enterprise Integrator to integrate segment products and verify that system requirements are met. The GPS Enterprise Integrator project is responsible for the development and management of the Enterprise technical baseline. The technical baseline consists of more than 6400 specifications and 330 interface documents. The technical baseline reflects the requirements of multiple stakeholder groups such as the Department of Defense (DoD), foreign governments and allies, industry, the general public (through four Interface specifications), and ensures GPS capabilities meet the needs of warfighters, civil agencies, commercial entities, international treaties, and over 4B global GPS users. The Enterprise Integrator manages the process through which the JROC requirements are matured and flowed down to the segments of the system and that interfaces are clearly defined. This enables the GPS system to meet Title 10 of the U.S. Code, Section 2281, mandated GPS capabilities as well as obligations to the international community and allied nations, to provide, inter-operable PNT signals. The Enterprise Integrator is also responsible for all aspects of schedule and technical alignment across the segments. The Enterprise Integrator creates and manages plans that provide for early exercise of the products under development, compatibility analysis, and intersegment testing thereby reducing risk. The intersegment tests are required to prove the interoperability of OCX, GPS III, and modernized user equipment. The Enterprise Integrator's test efforts also extend to validating that GPS can be used for civil aircraft navigation. The Enterprise Integrator activity supports the Government Program Office's GPS spectrum protection at international forums such as the International Telecommunications Union, assisting the United States when negotiating with foreign partners. In addition, the Enterprise Integrator provides technical expertise and continuity for maintaining relationships with other U.S. government agencies to include the FAA, NGA, NASA, as well as the Departments of State, Transportation, Homeland Security, and Commerce. Spectrum expertise from the Enterprise Integrator ensures GPS priority over eight essential spectrum signals such as the safety of life signal, L5, which is required for civil air navigation. Spectrum Protection prevents encroachment from commercial or foreign entities, which preserves reliable signals to warfighters and civil users, ensuring military operations and the integrity of the global economic infrastructure. The Enterprise Integrator is the GPS enterprise expert for Information Assurance (IA), System Safety, and System Security, ultimately ensuring a protected GPS Signal for both the military and civil users from emerging cyber threats. The Enterprise Integrator is accountable for the development, execution, and analysis of OCX IA test cases, which are necessary to deliver a secure, operational system, protected against adversarial cyber-attacks intended to deny, disrupt, or degrade GPS operations. The Enterprise Integrator supports the Government development and implementation of various Systems engineering documents, defines the methods of verification, conducts the analyses or tests, and assists the government in leading Integrated System Tests. The Enterprise Integrator validates the system performance in various mission threat scenarios during its development. The Enterprise Integrator provides deep, technical, highly specific expertise that the government utilizes to enhances the government control, oversight and program accountability.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Project
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2015
- Source ID
- 67A025_0603423F_7_3600_PB_2015
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