unclassified - Air Force Financial Management & Comptroller

BUDGET ITEM JUSTIFICATION (EXHIBIT P-40)
UNCLASSIFIED
DATE:
FEBRUARY 2002
APPROP CODE/BA:
OPAF/ELECTRONICS & TELECOMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT
P-1 NOMENCLATURE:
BASE INFORMATION INFRASTRUCTURE
Description (continued):
maintenance intensive equipment, replacing or upgrading existing voice switching systems, providing network management of information
systems, increasing the capacity of saturated information transmission systems, and providing information protection tools. The program
provides secure fiber installations to buildings at Air Force locations. This infrastructure ensures the warfighter and wing command center full
access to real-time command and control (C2) information during contingencies. Lack of C2 access would severely limit reach-back capability
supporting deployable forward footprint-push/pull information capability and impede proactive information protection countermeasures to
support collaborative information exchange. The program includes four product areas which are centrally funded and managed by the CITS
Program Office. The product areas are described below:
a. INFORMATION TRANSPORT SYSTEM (ITS): The ITS product area implements and keeps technologically current a broad-band,
fiber-optic digital information transport network to provide near-instantaneous information transfer for each base and selected geographically
separated units (GSUs). The system will have sufficient capacity to meet the classified and unclassified data, voice, video, imagery, and
telemetry requirements at each fixed location. Most Air Force bases have an existing infrastructure that is incapable of supporting the current
and future communications needs of the warfighter. Initial capability will include data transport with other media, incorporated as technology
and funding permit. Integration of AF and joint information operations will allow immediate threat awareness and impact, intelligence
gathering and assessments and other relevant situational awareness of the battlespace. The system will further expand the Secure Internet
Protocol Router Network (SIPRNET) infrastructure, the backbone to joint and coalition warfighting. FY01-03 funds direct mission support and
procures the initial phase of ITS installation projects for the highest priority bases. Installs may include: fiber optic backbone, network
equipment, encryption devices, virtual private networks, voice and video interfaces, building wiring, training, test and support. Any delay in
ITS installation will impact the schedules of several C2 and combat support automation modernization programs dependent upon the in-place
fiber optic ITS infrastructure.
b. NETWORK MANAGEMENT SYSTEM/BASE INFORMATION PROTECT (NMS/BIP): The NMS/BIP product area delivers and
keeps technologically current a modern network management system for base Network Control Centers, MAJCOM Network Operations and
Security Centers, and the Air Force’s enterprise entities (AF Network Operations Center, AF Computer Emergency Response Center, and
enterprise level technical support) (Note within this period these units may form the AF Network Operations and Security Center). NMS/BIP
supports the International Standards Organization’s (ISO) five network management functions: fault management, configuration management,
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