INFORMATION SYSTEMS (OP SYS DEV)

Abstract

This Project provides for the upgrade and modernization of fielded Information Systems including the Biosurveillance Portal (BSP), the Joint Effects Model (JEM) and the Joint Warning and Reporting Network (JWARN). This project also provides for the Software Support Activity (SSA) and Chemical Biological Radiological and Nuclear Information Systems (CBRN-IS). Experimentation and demonstration will be used in this phase to reduce risk and inform supporting materiel solutions, CONOPS and TTPs. Efforts included in this project are: (1) Chemical Biological Radiological and Nuclear Information Systems (CBRN-IS); (2) Joint Effects Model (JEM); (3) Joint Warning and Reporting Network (JWARN); (4) Biosurveillance Portal (BSP); and (5) Software Support Activity (SSA). CBRN-IS is an enterprise solution that provides End to End easily accessible sets of CBRN Enterprise capabilities through web services utilizing Service Oriented Architecture. Provides timely, fused, and easily accessible CBRN defense information to the Joint warfighter, CBDP community of interest, civil and international partners. CBRN-IS provides a collaborative environment that allows users to collect and disseminate CBRN warning and reporting data, provide detailed CBRN hazard predictions, aid in decision support, and make relevant CBRN defense information available in near-real time. CBRN-IS provides an environment that supports the implementation of Integrated Early Warning (IEW) capabilities that allow users to access netted sensor information, data fusion, disease modeling, biosurveillance data, source term estimation data, incident management tools, and planning and analysis capabilities. CBRN-IS provides net centric, cloud based tools and capabilities that are aligned with the current and future DoD IT/Cyber computing environments including Army Common Operating Environment (COE) and the Joint Information Environment (JIE). The CBRN-IS enterprise makes CBRN decision aids readily accessible from any desktop through a standard web browser simplifying interoperability, reducing integration and deployment costs and increases cybersecurity protection. The Joint Effects Model (JEM) is a web-based software application that supplies the DoD with the one and only accredited tool to effectively model and simulate the effects of Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN) weapon strikes and incidents. JEM is capable of providing all warfighters with the ability to accurately model and predict the time-phased impact of CBRN and Toxic Industrial Chemical/Material (TIC/TIM) events and effects. JEM supports planning to mitigate the effects of Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) and to provide rapid estimates of hazards and effects into the Common Operational Picture (COP). Follow-on versions of JEM will refine and display hazard areas in near real time to reflect inputs such as meteorological, oceanographic, or actual agent concentration data. JEM will automatically receive input data from the Command, Control, Communications, Computers and Intelligence (C4I) system on which it resides, such as historical climatology, local observations, weather forecasts, natural environmental threats (i.e.: pandemic influenza, etc.), terrain data, intelligence information, or population data. JEM will also allow manual user input for factors such as concentrations of chemical warfare agents or actual exposure measurements and forecast sheltering stay-times and provide for modeling sheltering time through user-defined scenarios. The Joint Warning and Reporting Network (JWARN) is an accredited DoD warning and reporting system that provides a standardized warning and reporting capability for Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN) and Toxic Industrial Materials (TIM) incidents. JWARN supports the Joint Force Commander (JFC) by improving force protection capabilities for units operating in chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear environments. JWARN provides a digital display of CBRN 1-6 reports on the Common Operational Picture, displayed through Service provided C4I systems resident at all echelons of command. JWARN will be operated by CBRN and non-CBRN trained personnel operating in the operations center at various command nodes. This provides commanders with situational awareness to inform decision making for force protection criteria, unmasking operations, decontamination, and continuity of operations in a contaminated environment. Future sensor configurations will forward sensor inputs directly to JWARN via established communication lanes, removing the man-in-the-loop requirement with the current system configuration. JWARN will be information system classification agnostic and must be able to operate on unclassified, secret, top secret, and mission partner IT Systems without increasing system operator requirement, i.e.: sensor to COP via one communication loop. As a result, sensors will then be able to communicate with JWARN on the same network, regardless of classification. JEM and JWARN utilize the Joint Capabilities Integration and Development System (JCIDS) Manual prescribed Information Technology Box (IT Box) construct for managing requirements for the follow-on increments of capability development. The "IT Box" is an acquisition approach and methodology regarding how software systems should be developed and fielded. It is a process that differs from the way DoD acquires hardware systems. The acquisition approach uses the Information Systems Initial Capabilities Document (IS ICD) to describe the required operational capabilities for the entire development effort. These overarching requirements are further broken out into Requirements Definition Packages (RDPs) released over the life of the product instead of a single Capability Development Document (CDD) released early in the program. "Agile Software Development" is a set of industry standard software development methods used in conjunction with the IT Box framework. Agile Software Development promotes adaptive planning, evolutionary development, early delivery, continuous improvement, and encourages rapid and flexible response to change. The Agile methodology is an alternative to traditional program management, typically used in software development. It helps teams respond to unpredictability through incremental, iterative work cadences, known as sprints. Agile methodologies are an alternative to waterfall, or traditional sequential development. IT Box enables programs to tailor the incrementally fielded software program model in the DODI 5000.02 to conduct multiple, more frequent fielding events in lieu of a single fielding event. Programs conduct a single Milestone B (MS B) decision by the Milestone Decision Authority (MDA) that covers the entire program. MS B is followed by a series of supporting Build Decisions (BDs) associated with each RDP as they are released. The supporting BDs will ensure incorporation of mature technology and development efforts culminating in incremental deliveries of capability to Joint and Service Command and Control (C2) architectures. Instead of a single Milestone C (MS C) decision and fielding event for one increment, the program will return to the MDA for more frequent fielding decisions, as often as annually, as portions of capability are determined suitable and operationally effective. These multiple fielding efforts are based on providing capabilities with the most value to the operators based on warfighter priorities/needs, maturation of the technology being incorporated and available resources supporting the effort. The Biosurveillance Portal (BSP) was a FY 2016 new start program to address USSOCOM requirements contained in an approved Information Systems Capability Development Document (IS CDD). BSP is a web-based enterprise environment that will facilitates collaboration, communication, and information sharing in support of the detection, management, and mitigation of man-made and naturally occurring biological events. BSP bridges the communication gaps in the biosurveillance domain to provide a central access point for biosurveillance information and situational awareness for DoD, interagency and allied partners supporting the early identification and response to biological events. BSP provides an integrated suite of web-based components designed to support public health officers, environmental officers, clinicians, physicians, and CBRN personnel as they maintain their situational awareness of local, regional, and global biological threats to the force. BSP does not duplicate existing DoD capabilities, but rather leverages existing tools and technologies to provide users across multiple organizations and disciplines with a centralized "one-stop shop" for all of their biosurveillance resources. The BSP Program will utilize BA7 funding to execute modernization, bug fixes, provide support at the fielded locations and maintain training. There will be two Production Capability Drops (CDs) and two Engineering CDs in FY18. CDs will be evaluated following Developmental Testing (DT) through End-to-End Testing using users to validate delivered capability as part of the IT Box process thus reducing risk to the program and ensuring a quality product is delivered to the warfighter. As software-intensive systems, JEM, JWARN, and BSP have no separately identifiable unit production components. BSP, JEM, and JWARN are designated as ACAT III programs and unit cost calculations including Program Acquisition Unit Cost/Average Procurement Unit Cost (PAUC/APUC) and Operations and Sustainment (O&S) average annual per unit costs are not applicable. The Software Support Activity (SSA) is a Chem-Bio Defense user developmental support and service organization to facilitate net-centric interoperability of systems in acquisition for the warfighter. The SSA provides the CBRN warfighter with Joint Service solutions for Cybersecurity/Information Assurance (IA), Integrated Architectures, Data Management/Modeling, Interoperability Certifications, Verification, Validation and Accreditation (VV&A) to support interoperable and integrated net-centric, service-oriented solutions for CBRN systems. The SSA emphasizes development of reference implementations to guide Government and industry system and software developers to ensure that their products meet common interoperability standards. The latest technologies/products include the definition of a Common CBRN Sensor Integration Standard (CCSI) and the CBRN Data Model. These technologies and direct enablers for the development of CBRN integrated sensor networks and the dissemination of CBRN information across all users. The SSA directly supports Chemical and Biological Defense Program (CBDP) initiatives by providing common service oriented architectures and frameworks for the collection and dissemination of biosurveillance and other critical CBRN information.

Document Details

• Document Type: Project
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2019
• Source ID: IS7_0607384BP_7_0400_PB_2019

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Fields of Study

• Computer science

Readers

• Critical Infrastructure Protection in CBRN and WMD Threats.
• Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.

Technology Areas

• Biotechnology
• Cyber
• Fully Networked C3
• Fully Networked C3 - Command and Control