Centralized Technical Support Facility (CTSF)
Abstract
Project C29, The Centralized Technical Support Facility (CTSF): The CTSF is the Army's premier test and certification facility for System of Systems interoperability, functioning as CIO/G6's designated independent test agent and Land/WarNet/Mission Command (LWN/MC) configuration manager. The Central Technical Support Facility's (CTSF) directed mission is to perform Army Interoperability Certification (AIC) testing and configuration management for all 23 operational through tactical level Command, Computing, Control, Communications, Cyber, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (C5ISR) systems, Mission and Space systems, Aviation systems and other individual, family, and system of systems, applications, and hardware prior to release to the field. The CTSF accomplishes this through the enforcement of a standards based architecture while supporting the development and implementation of an integrated computing infrastructure and a converged network. The CTSF provides validated test data to the Department of the Army and Joint agencies to accredit interoperability certifications. The distributed test environment of the CTSF is accomplished through the Federation of Net-centric Sites (FaNS) construct. This FaNS construct addresses distributed integration development and testing using the core infrastructure of the CTSF to harness Army and Joint expertise/resources. Through these federated resources, the CTSF executes or supports interoperability development, integration and certification testing of the systems and system of systems in the Warfighter Mission Area, to include Network Evaluation spinouts, as they become part of the Army's LandWarNet. The cited work is consistent with Strategic Planning Guidance and the Army Modernization and Strategy Plan.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Project
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2024
- Source ID
- C29_0604818A_5_2040_PB_2024
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