NMCS Command Center Engineering
Abstract
The National Military Command System (NMCS), operated by the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, provides the President, Secretary of Defense, and other national senior leaders the ability to maintain situational and operational awareness and command and control of military forces in all crisis and/or national emergency contingencies. DISA's NMCS Engineering program meets the NMCS Systems Engineer responsibilities, per Department of Defense Directive (DoDD) S-5100.44 and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Instruction 3280.01B, to provide the Joint Staff with operationally efficient and cost-effective engineering solutions to ensure that NMCS components and facilities satisfy operational requirements including emergency messaging, situational awareness, crisis action, and information management. This funding is vital to the NMCS engineering program in supporting the government's ability to safeguard national security and respond to contingencies globally and/or nuclear war. NMCS Engineering will focus on the implementation of collaborative tools into current and crisis operations areas, the integration of adequate back-up storage and recovery of voice, video and data across the continental United States to support key leaders, transition of nuclear command and control to Internet Protocol (IP)-based networks, migration of data and voice network to NEXT-GEN satellites, implementation of modern crypto-logical devices, and the utilization of wireless networking to support Warning Systems and situational awareness. In addition, NMCS Engineering will continue to maintain the NMCS Reference Guide (NRG) required by DoDD S-5100.44 and develop engineering and test plans for the installation of hardware and software systems utilized within the NMCS. If funding is reduced to the NMCS 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 Joint Staff initiatives to develop and implement net-centric, web-based, tools/applications to improve NMCS information sharing and knowledge management would be seriously degraded. This effort supports the national leadership and nuclear command and control portion of the DISA Campaign Plan.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Project
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2012
- Source ID
- S32_0302016K_7_0400_PB_2012
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- Root: National Military Command System-Wide Support
- Child Accomplishment: NMCS Systems Engineering