Department of Defense (DoD) Information Enterprise Strategic Plan

Objective 4: Common configuration management processes across the DoD IE will be usedto consistently identify, control, account for, and verify GIG infrastructure, systems, services,and applications, and will make their status visible to the IE Operations community.Key Performance Indicator: Assessment of the extent to which standard configurationmanagement processes are adopted across the DoD IE to enable DoD to have agile responsesto specific threats and maintain consistent interoperability with all mission partners.Strategy Elements:• Establish consistent configuration management processes for managing GIG infrastructure, information systems,services, and applications to achieve a secure, interoperable net-centric environment.• Implement an enterprise-wide common configuration management technical framework and process to identify,control, account for, and verify GIG configuration items to ensure interoperability and security.• Manage configuration item data to enable sharing that data through net-centric approaches that supportoverarching GIG situational awareness objectives.Integration of the Combatant Command Theater NetOpsControl Centers with DISA Theater NetOps CentersThe U.S. European Command (USEUCOM), the U.S. Africa Command (USAFRICOM), and DISA are using a newapproach of co-locating NetOps staff to address NetOps situational awareness information sharing for their respectiveportions of the GIG. The USEUCOM and USAFRICOM Theater NetOps Control Centers now have their NetOpswatch officers located in the DISA-EUR Theater NetOps Center (TNC) facility. The watch officer function includesassessing mission impact, based on DISA System Control Officer information for the status of their portion of the GIG.The U.S. Pacific Command (USPACOM) also follows this model and has now placed four of their controllers at theDISA-PAC TNC.In addition, Army 5th Signal Command has installed a workstation on the DISA-EUR TNC floor for SA of the Armynetwork in Europe. Similarly, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) also recently installed a workstation on theDISA-EUR TNC floor for the SA of the NATO network.This early stage of “manual integration” has realized tremendous benefitswith respect to manning, response time, and general communication.Watch officers are able to communicate directly with each other becausethey are working face to face and can view one another’s workstation screensfor relevant SA information. They are able to work jointly to troubleshootnetwork problems and deal with emergent congestion issues. The underlyingNetOps support systems are still separate, stovepiped applications that areplanned for more direct integration in the future. Nonetheless, improvementsin sharing SA information have already been achieved without buildingpoint-to-point interfaces among the existing systems.16