Every year we receive nominations that exemplify how well the American public is being served by the superb and innovative IT programs delivered in both the public and private sectors. AFEI is raising the level of awareness about the tremendous work being done by both industry and government in combining innovation and emerging technologies to solve the government’s most complex enterprise problems.
While not selected to receive an award, they are nonetheless deserving of recognition.
AFEI is proud to recognize these project teams:
Missile Defense Agency (MDA) Command, Control, Battle Management and Communications (C2BMC) Spiral 8.2 (S8.2)
Centralized Hosting for Installation Systems with Private Cloud Portal for Users
Consolidated Product-line Management (CPM) Next
Cyber Command and Control (Cyber C2) Combatant Command (CCMD) Baseline
Enterprise Content Collaboration and Messaging
Project Directorate (PD) Reserve Component Automation Systems (RCAS)
Shore Submarine Communications (SUBCOMMS) Architectural Model
Missile Defense Agency (MDA) Command, Control, Battle Management and Communications (C2BMC) Spiral 8.2 (S8.2)
Missile Defense Agency/BC
The S8.2 product development team has provided engineering and acquisition oversight to support S8.2 product development and fielding in 2017. Throughout the development life cycle of this effort the government team has worked tirelessly, teaming with contractor counterparts, to implement innovative product development oversight activities to ensure that a robust and improved C2BMC architecture is delivered on time and within budget to support Missile Defense requirements. The Spiral 8.2 Product Engineering Team has implemented effective and efficient process improvements that have been successful in optimizing resources (i.e., schedule/funding) and in translating the development strategy into an executable plan for C2BMC.
Centralized Hosting for Installation Systems with Private Cloud Portal for Users
US Marine Corps Installations Command (MCICOM) Facilities Systems Branch (FSB)
Hybrid Cloud Hosting is a flexible solution that allows the Marine Corps Installations Facilities Command (MCICOM) Facilities Systems Branch (FSB) to leverage a Cloud-based portal for services on the front end while attaching to variable infrastructure services on the back end.
The Hybrid Cloud Hosting system encourages the developers and IT professionals to be able to develop and test systems in safe zones without any risk to the production environment. This in turn empowers developers and database administrators to enhance systems and test performance improvements with little concern of harming system functionality. FSB has worked diligently and methodically to publish an extensive governance model that addresses change management, configuration control, project scoping, software development lifecycle, and release management.
Consolidated Product-line Management (CPM) Next
CPM Next Team, U.S. Army Program Executive Office Simulation, Training and Instrumentation, SFAE-STRI-PEO
The Consolidated Product-line Management (CPM) Next acquisition contract builds and maintains live training systems in support of home station training, deployed training, urban operations training, maneuver combat training center training, and instrumented live-fire range training. Under the CPM Next contract, 13 delivery orders support 22 live training products at 200+ sites worldwide. Additionally the CPM Next utilization of a product line approach resulted in $746M in validated cost avoidance to date – $660M in cost avoidance through common components reuse, and $86M through post deployment software support and post production software support efficiencies.
Joint Tactical Integration Branch (JTIB), Architecture & Integration Division (AID), Joint Staff (JS) J6 Command and Control Integration (C2I) Directorate
This Joint Staff, Deputy Director for Command, Control, Communications and Computers/Cyber, (JS J6), designed this effort to address the need for development and refinement of Cyberspace Operations (CO) Command and Control (C2) at the Combatant Commands (CCMDs). They pursued this in response to a demand signal from multiple CCMDs that DoD lacks joint standards for developing training and qualification standards, and assessing readiness of combatant command cyberspace organizations and personnel. This effort advances work that was started almost two years ago to develop standards that result in improved mission performance. Coordinating with several other DoD efforts in COC2 including the STRATCOM J7 Joint Cyber Workforce/JCC Training Standardization Effort, the Joint Staff J1 /AF Personnel Center Manpower study, the JS J39 and JCOA C2 study, and the USD(I) Intelligence Support Study in an effort to reuse and build upon the data collected from these studies.
The updated Baseline Models developed as a result of this effort will: (1) Support the development of a common JCC CONOPS for the CCMDs or a similar type document that specifies common standards and tasks that describe CCMD CO; (2) Support the development of Joint Training products and services that support individual, staff, and collective training; and (3) Support the development of products and services that support DRRS readiness reporting and JTIMS exercise evaluation of CO in CCMD exercises.
Program Executive Office Enterprise Information Systems, PEO EIS
The Enterprise Content Collaboration and Messaging (EC2M) product team is a systems integrator, material developer and life-cycle manager for the Army. The organization provides the most recent, relevant, and current capabilities to the non-tactical workforce. The EC2M challenge is to manage the operations and maintenance of legacy systems, complete the integration of recently acquired services, and to plan and manage the acquisition of new services while assuring uninterrupted support for functions essential to the Army. Its personnel boast a wide range of competencies, from technical to financial skills to management of programs and personnel. The EC2M team is the central point of contact for managing DISA Enterprise Services to the Army.
The EC2M systems integration project welds the residual, selectively modernized, capabilities of AKO, the Army’s legacy enterprise intranet, to the capabilities of DEE, the new Army single, secure email and calendar sharing capability, hosted by DISA. The organization’s integration planning addresses the currently limited ECMCS deployment and prepares for the acquisition of UC for the Army. AKO, as the Army’s legacy enterprise service, continues providing essential capabilities to the Army, including file storage and shares, search, and IdAM services for Army applications, and portal gateway services for Army users. AKO supports asynchronous collaboration for all 1.4 M Army uniformed, civilian, and contractor personnel.
DEE provides a single, secure email and calendar sharing capability across the DoD with a “true” GAL accessible world-wide using common access card/public key infrastructure authentication. The Army has 1.5M unclassified or classified user accounts and ~80K Army mobile devices (BlackBerry). DEE centralized over 1.5 million Army user accounts from many disparate legacy email systems into a DISA managed service (migrations occurred in 2013 and 2014). ECMCS is a suite of collaboration capabilities delivered as a managed service from DISA. ECMCS is an initiative that provides enterprise-level content management and collaboration capabilities to nearly 100,000 Army Warfighter and workforce users to enhance and promote universal file sharing, collaboration, access to team sites, workflows, documents, and records. Integration of the UC enterprise-level service will provide integrated voice, video, instant messaging/chat, presence, and screen sharing to enable synchronous collaboration for Army users worldwide. Fielding UC will modernize both communications and Army synchronous collaboration.
Software Sustainment Division (SSD)
Mr. Cook, Director, and his Software Sustainment team are credited with changing the culture, enabling and supporting the successful transition to an agile software development methodology from the more heavyweight waterfall method which was completed within a six-month timeframe. Their implementation of the agile methodology has yielded significant benefits for PD RCAS and other Army programs. For example, software is released quarterly to accommodate ever-changing operating environments that demand innovative and adaptable IT solutions.
The outstanding success of our implementation of the agile software methodology is a direct result of Mr. Cook’s leadership and his and his team’s dedication to our Soldiers. Their hands on style, combined with the ability to synchronize and communicate with multiple levels of Commands and organizations, have fostered a total team effort at all echelons ensuring that our Soldiers and stakeholders receive the quality software they deserve. Perhaps the single most important benefit the RCAS project has realized over the past year and a half, through Mr. Cook and his team’s demonstrated leadership is from learning and identifying the best practices from the entire software sustainment team. A team which includes the RCAS Application Product Owners, the respective ARNG and USAR G6 community, to include staff members from both the National Guard Bureau and the U.S. Army Reserve Command; our prime contract system integrator team, and finally the respective Army Reserve Component Soldiers and software users we serve.
Shore Submarine Communications (SUBCOMMS) Architectural Model
G2 Ops, Inc
The U.S. Navy shore Submarine Communications (SUBCOMMS) architecture is the ‘central hub’ for all submarine-to-shore communications and is vital both for normal fleet operations (e.g., fleet messaging, navigation, etc.) and strategic defense of the United States (i.e. via the Nuclear Command, Control, and Communications (NC3) mission support aspects of submarine communications). Due to many factors, the submarine force lacked visibility in to the technical and process data necessary to properly manage, secure, operate, and control the SUBCOMMS architecture. As a result, the submarine force spent millions annually related to integration issues, experienced instabilities in the overall architecture, had potential capability and cybersecurity gaps, and was unable to determine whether planned system changes would impact end-to-end communications capabilities or submarine force mission execution.
G2 Ops utilized Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) tools and techniques to develop the Shore SUBCOMMS Architectural Model, which integrates traditionally disparate information on technological components, dependencies, mission requirements, data flows, and organizational processes within a single, fully-integrated view of the SUBCOMMS architecture. The Shore SUBCOMMS Architectural Model provides substantial improvements on traditional document-based systems engineering approaches, and it has transformed (and continues to transform) the way the SUBCOMMS community operates. The Shore SUBCOMMS Architectural Model has benefited stakeholders at all levels in the submarine community, from acquisition to operations, and it has proven to be a foundation for process improvement, innovation, cost reduction, and risk avoidance.
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