Download or read book Defense acquisitions the Global Information Grid and challenges facing its implementation report to Subcommittee on Terrorism Unconventional Threats and Capabilities Committee on Armed Services House of Representatives written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Defense Program Issue written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Global Information Grid (GIG) is the enabling infrastructure for Network Centric Warfare (NCW), a concept that relies on communications technology to link together U.S. military personnel, ground vehicles, aircraft, and naval vessels through integrated wide and local area networks to provide improved battle space awareness for joint military forces.1 The GIG Bandwidth Expansion program (GIG-BE) is a component of the overall GIG, that involves upgrading the capacity of the busiest equipment and transmission pathways composing the central portion of the GIG. Some question whether the GIG-BE design will support military requirements for transmitting the expected future high volume of encrypted network traffic. Also, because each service is developing a separate network architecture that will tie into the GIG, some observers question whether these differences will limit interoperability of the overall GIG, and thus reduce its usefulness to warfighters. This report will be updated as events warrant.

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Download or read book Who Runs what in the Global Information Grid written by Martin C. Libicki and published by RAND Corporation. This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Information provided to warfighters only gave them broad situational awareness, today, information from sensors and databases can help target past what they can see. This has prompted the Department of Defense (DoD) to build a military analog to the Internet, to be a font of warfighting information and system services. But how should responsibility for providing information and services be shared between global external sources and organic local sources. Thus, tools are needed to let commanders use information from whatever sources fits their needs. A strong bias toward interoperability would foster universal access to information. Liberal distribution of unit-level sensors and connectivity should help warfighters develop and share operational information. Better technology is needed to marry local and global information sources easily. Finally, some entity within DoD should review current information services and lay out a road map for filling in the blanks.

Download or read book Modeling and Simulation Applications on the Global Information Grid written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presentation on Modeling and Simulation Applications on the Global Information Grid. The Global Information Grid (GIG) is a major restructuring of DoD communications and information infrastructure; an implementation of Net-centric Warfare concept; modeled on the Internet; and is a major opportunity for modeling and simulation to support operating forces.

Download or read book Systems Engineering for the Global Information Grid An Approach at the Enterprise Level written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Because the numerous United States Department of Defense (DoD) and Intelligence Community (IC) networks were originally built to serve many different constituencies, making the Global Information Grid (GIG) a reality requires solving interoperability and performance issues at the enterprise level. This will be accomplished through the use of systems engineering a discipline whose techniques manage the complexity of systems from abstraction to decomposition. The GIG Technical Foundation (GTF) addresses a number of systems engineering challenges involving focus, evolution, coverage, and applicability.

Download or read book Who Runs What In the Global Information Grid Ways to Share Local and Global Responsibility written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traditionally, information was used to provide commanders with broad situational awareness, leaving operators to rely on what their own senses provided (quintessential local data) in order to conduct combat. In the last 50 years, the advent of sensors and their ever-lengthening range, coupled with the ability to digitize information and distribute it globally, have changed all this. The campaign in Kosovo was largely fought using global information: Sensor-acquired data on Yugoslavian targets were often analyzed far from the front and converted into aim points for precision-guided weaponry. The rise of global information in turn suggests that DoD's information systems as a whole should be agglomerated into what has been variously referred to as a "System of Systems" (from Admiral Owens); "Battlespace Infosphere" (from the Air Force Science Advisory Board); or, the term now favored within the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the "Global Information Grid (GIG)" (or, in the shorthand used here, the Grid).

Download or read book C4ISTAR and the Global Information Grid written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Global Information Grid Net Centric Operations and Warfare Reference Model written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book DoD Global Information Grid Mission Assurance written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Department of Defense's (DoD) policy, planning, and warfighting capabilities are heavily dependent on the information technology foundation provided by the Global Information Grid (GIG). However, the GIG was built for business efficiency instead of mission assurance against sophisticated adversaries who have demonstrated intent and proven their ability to use cyberspace as a tool for espionage and the criminal theft of data. GIG mission assurance works to ensure the DoD is able to accomplish its critical missions when networks, services, or information are unavailable, degraded, or distrusted. This article explores current threats to the GIG and outlines the solutions that the DoD has developed to protect its networks.

Download or read book Measuring the Health of the Global Information Grid written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monitoring the health of the GIG is one of the most critical aspects of operationalizing cyber missions. This report focuses on the health of the Global Information Grid (GIG), a globally interconnected Department of Defense (DoD) network (of systems) that collects, processes, and manages information for warfighters, policymakers, and support personnel. The three primary components of GIG health (as defined by the customer) include sustainability, reliability and survivability. Sustainability is the consistent performance of network tasks over time; whereas reliability is the accuracy, accessibility and obtainability of information for the user; and survivability being the availability of alternate data route despite internal/external issues. The focus of the project was to design a framework for metrics to assess the health of the GIG. Private sector metrics were extrapolated to measure the sustainability, reliability, and survivability of the GIG and were included as commercial best practices. Also investigated were internal and external threats, such as interference, intrusion, and malicious activity (e.g., cyber-terrorists) that could undermine the system's capability.

Download or read book Who Runs What In the Global Information Grid Ways to Share Loacland Global Responsibility written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traditionally, information was used to provide commanders with broad situational awareness, leaving operators to rely on what their own senses provided (quintessential local data) in order to conduct combat. In the last 50 years, the advent of sensors and their ever-lengthening range, coupled with the ability to digitize information and distribute it globally, have changed all this. The campaign in Kosovo was largely fought using global information: Sensor-acquired data on Yugoslavian targets were often analyzed far from the front and converted into aim points for precision-guided weaponry. The rise of global information in turn suggests that DoD's information systems as a whole should be agglomerated into what has been variously referred to as a "System of Systems" (from Admiral Owens); "Battlespace Infosphere" (from the Air Force Science Advisory Board); or, the term now favored within the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the "Global Information Grid (GIG)" (or, in the shorthand used here, the Grid).

Download or read book Coordinating the Global Information Grid Initiative with the NG9 1 1 Initiative written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the Department of Defense develops the Global Information Grid, the Department of Transportation develops the Next Generation 9-1-1 system. Close examinations of these initiatives show that the two are similar in architectures, applications, and communications interoperability. These similarities are extracted from the lowest user level to the highest commander rank that will be involved in each network. Once the similarities are brought into perspective, efforts should be made to collaborate between the two departments.

Download or read book Developing and Populating the Global Information Grid for Joint and Coalition Operations written by George Galdorisi and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Defense Science Board Task Force on Tactical Battlefield Communications final report written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Global Information Grid Survivability written by Richard C. Ciampa and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: "The four studies in this document are student contributions to the SEI Global Information Grid (GIG) Survivability Study. Each study explores an issue relevant to the survivability of networks which are systems of systems. Since the GIG is inherently a system of systems, the survivability of operational concepts such as Joint Battle Management Command and Control (JBMC2) will largely depend on the extent to which GIG architecture is approached from this perspective. Systems of systems differ from large, monolithic systems because of the simultaneous independence and interdependence of their constituent parts, and therefore traditional survivability methods are not sufficient. To deal with the operational complexity resulting from qualities peculiar to systems of systems, planners and builders of the GIG will need to formulate broad strategic approaches taking these qualities into account. These four studies have attempted to identify characteristics of systems of systems which may be useful in this endeavor. The specific areas explored in this document include the following: the applicability of autonomous agents in a system of systems; the suitability of conventional software testing in a system-of-systems environment; emergent properties and unanticipated consequences in a system of systems; the role of ontologies in systems-of-systems interoperability; the architectural properties and operational survivability effects of internet protocol version 6 (IPv6) technology."