NMCS Command Center Engineering

Abstract

The NMCS (National Military Command System) is the primary mechanism for gathering and disseminating information between DoD deployed forces and the senior government national security decision-makers. As such, its efficient operation is vitally important to the government’s ability to respond to all contingencies ranging from local events (e.g., natural disasters, terrorism, etc.) to global and/or nuclear war. The NMCS Command Center Engineering program ensures that the NMCS is modernized to provide optimal performance to meet any and all crisis situations. DISA’s NMCS Command Center Engineering program provides innovative and cost-effective engineering solutions to ensure that the NMCS components and facilities provide the Joint Staff with the necessary emergency messaging, situational awareness, crisis action, and operational capabilities linkages between senior executive leaders and the Combatant Commands. NMCS engineering provides overall configuration management of NMCS assets and guides the future evolution of the many systems in the NMCS while continuing to meet national security needs. NMCS engineering projects support DISA’s mission of providing responsive, timely, and accurate information to the warfighter. The program provides concept development, requirements definition and calibration, technical specifications, proofs-of-concept, testing, rapid prototyping, technology insertions, systems engineering and integration, and technical assessments. If funding is reduced to the NMCS Command Center Engineering program, it would adversely affect the government’s ability to respond to the full spectrum of contingency operations and safeguard our national security. As NMCS systems reach the end of their life-cycles, there would be insufficient funding to support the engineering of system upgrades/replacements. Support to the VJCS Initiatives to develop and implement net-centric, web-based, tools/applications to improve NMCS information sharing and knowledge management would be seriously degraded.

Document Details

• Document Type: Project
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2011
• Source ID: S32_0302016K_7_0400_PB_2011

Tags

Readers

• Defense Acquisition Program Management
• Emergency Management and Homeland Security.
• Software Engineering.