Mrs. Evelyn M. DePalma

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AFCEA Asia-Pacific TechNet From Information to
Knowledge to Decision

• Mrs. Evelyn M. DePalma
• Director for Procurement
• Chief, Defense Information Technology Contracting
  Organization (DITCO)
• 5 November 2007

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Agenda

• DISAs Strategy
• Information ? Knowledge ? Decision
• Government/Industry Challenges
• Contracting Opportunities

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DISAs Strategy
UNCLASSIFIED
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Directors Principles

• We will Adopt Service capabilities and services
  and make them Joint
• We will Buy commercially managed services
• We will only Create if there is no other
  opportunity

But.all the
rules still apply!
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Directors Principles

• We will Adopt Service capabilities and services
  and make them Joint
• We will Buy commercially managed services
• We will only Create if there is no other
  opportunity

• Adopted the enterprise portal created for the
  DOD community.

Get some capability out there
NOW, then refine
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Directors Principles

• Collaboration Tools
• The two button solution
• Computing Services
• Operating Systems
• Storage Services

• We will Adopt Service capabilities and services
  and make them Joint
• We will Buy commercially managed services
• We will only Create if there is no other
  opportunity

Get some capability out there
NOW, then refine
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Directors Principles

• Enterprise Business Modernization
• Global Command and Control System (GCCS)

• We will Adopt Service capabilities and services
  and make them Joint
• We will Buy commercially managed services
• We will only Create if there is no other
  opportunity

Get some capability out there
NOW, then refine
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Agenda

• DISAs Strategy
• Information ? Knowledge ? Decision
• Government/Industry Challenges
• Contracting Opportunities

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Application of NCES to DISAs Business
Environment

• NCES enables information sharing by connecting
  people/systems who have information with people/
  systems who need information
• For people who have information, NCES provides
  global information advertising and delivery
  services
• For people who need information, NCES provides
  global services to find and receive information

Information data and services (web services)
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Why NCES?
Current Systems
Net-Centric Capabilities
User Access
Systems transformed into discrete capabilities
Joint Capabilities
Now Systems Focus Stove-piped systems Information
push
Future Capabilities Focus Network Data -
Centric Information pull
New
NCES enabling Warfighting, Intelligence, and
Business Systems
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UNCLASSIFIED
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Application in DISAs Business Environment - Now

• DKO is now DISAs only portal
• Approve leave
• Share Information
• Collaboration Tools
• DISA Senior Staff
• Used to manage worldwide organization
• Saves travel time and expense
• Managed Services
• Storage
• Directory, Security, and Collaboration Services
• Operational support- actual operations in the
  data centers
• Set-up back-up electrical and mechanical
  components for Computing Services facilities
• Eliminate single points of failure
• Provide for replication of the customers data
  itself, frequently to an alternate geographic
  location

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Enterprise Services
Ability to operate in a secure environment
Real-time update and alert notification as
information changes
Ability to develop and reuse capabilities
regardless of platform increased
flexibility and agility
NCES
Interoperability of data with shared
semantics
Web-based source for information on NCES and
access to its services
Access to shared/ stored data improved
shared awareness
Improved Quality of Service
Communicate in real-time using voice, text,
and video sessions
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EBMs Implementation of Enterprise Services
EBM NIPRNet hosted, Uses SSL w/ CACs And
certificate assess only
EBM web services interfaces will be registered
in NCES

• EBM users see real-time
• updates and alerts notices
• as information
• changes

• EBM will use
• group level policies
• to share information
• with unanticipated
• users

Locate people and network resources
NCES

• EBM uses DoD
• BEA data model for
• shared data w/
• Business Sys

• Zero footprint,
• web-based
• application access
• to EBM.

EBM web services interfaces will be
registered in NCES
Communicate in real-time using voice, text,
and video sessions

• Improved KOs QoS,
• better Acq Pkgs and
• validated data

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Agenda

• DISAs Strategy
• Information? Knowledge ? Decision
• Government/Industry Challenges
• Contracting Opportunities

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Government/ Industry Challenges

• Scope
• Organizational Conflicts of Interest
• Mitigating Risk
• Due Diligence
• More Industry/Government Dialogue
• Contract Type
• TM is not FFP
• Culture needs to change

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Agenda

• DISAs Strategy
• Information Knowledge Decision
• Government/Industry Challenges
• Contracting Opportunities

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Contracting Opportunities
Native Hawaiian Organizations (Small
Businesses)
DISN Transmission Services Pacific II (DTS-P
II)
INDEFEASIBLE RIGHT OF USE (IRU)
Alaska Native Corporations (Small Businesses)
Building Renovation In Hawaii

• Subcontracting Opportunities

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Contracting Opportunities (contd)

• CORENet
• GEMSIS- Global Electro-Magnetic Spectrum
  Information System
• Program Management
• Enterprise-Wide System Engineering
• DVSII OM Small Business- DISN Video Services
• DGS/Replacement- DISN Global Solutions
• Capability Brokers
• System Information Manager
• SIPRNet Network Access Control
• Insider Threat Detection Tool

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Unclassified
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Federal Business Opportunities

• All contracting actions announced in FedBizOpps

http//www2.eps.gov/spg/DISA/index.html
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www.disa.mil