INFORMATION ASSURANCE

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• INFORMATION ASSURANCE
• (SECURITY AGENT BROKER)
• Conceptual Overview
• LTC JEFF UNGER

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Background

• Senator Stevens (R-AK) congressional staff
  visit to ITC-New Orleans (4Q-FY00)
• Congressional funding in FY01
• Briefings to J-4
• Conceptual model from ITC-New Orleans
• Letter from SecDef to Defense Appropriations
  Committee supporting Joint-ITC plan (1Q-FY02)

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Congressional Intent / Program Vision

• Creates a lasting entity in Hawaii and Alaska
  that
• supports prioritized DoD requirements
• modernize information technology systems using
  state-of-the-art tools
• provides federal jobs and private opportunity
• leverages on-going technology programs and
  investments in Maui County and other Hawaii
  venues
• keeps talent in Hawaii and provides
  opportunities for former residents
• provides education and training opportunities
  for local colleges and programs including
  apprenticeships and internships

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Congressional Language
The conferees have provided 20,000,000 only for
the Joint Information Technology Center
Initiative. These funds shall be available only
to establish two, Pacific-based Information
Technology Centers (ITCs). These centers allow
DoD to integrate and implement the many
successful logistics and personnel initiatives
underway throughout the Department of Defense.
The centers will process the wide range and
volume of information essential to the day-to-day
operations of our military personnel and defense
civilians. The centers will allow DoD to
eliminate legacy systems and to upgrade to more
capable and more flexible information technology
tools. The conferees direct that the Secretary
of Defense provide a report to the congressional
defense committees no later than May 1, 2001,
which outlines DoDs plan for proceeding with the
establishment of these centers.
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Program Funding Sustainment Strategy

• Each of these programs is currently funded with
  Research Demonstration, Testing and Evaluation,
  (RDTE), P-6 funding from a specific
  congressional appropriation
• The programs are based on approved requirements
  and, generally, have associated Programmed
  Operations and Maintenance (POM) funding in the
  near term.
• The congressional funding will enable the
  programs to be initiated prior to their original
  programmed timeframe.
• In the out years, the POM funding will align with
  the designated program, and these efforts will be
  supported by POM funding throughout the remaining
  life of the program.
• New congressional appropriations would then be
  utilized to initiate other specific approved
  programs. As the Joint ITC matures, there will
  be multiple programs in varying stages of
  development or sustainment supported by both
  RDTE and POM funding.

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Joint Information Technology Centers Alaska
Hawaii

• Data standardization

Requirements Joint Staff J-4

• Multi Security Level Capability

Program Mgmt ONR (Mid-Pac)
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Joint-ITC Requirements

• Current lead is the Joint Staff,
• J-4 Programs linked to JROC approved
  requirementsJoint Staff, J-4 will continue
  defining and influencing requirements

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Joint-ITC Framework
Small Business
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Information Assurance

• Develop a prototype system that will demonstrate
  a baseline browse-down capability.
• Build around existing guards
• Exploit success with further validation and
  development
• Request a low-side web page from the high side,
  retrieve and display
• Develop The Guard Guide
• Reference for the user and accrediting
  communities on guarding and cross domain
  solutions
• Interactive CD-ROM product

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Joint Information Technology CenterInformation
Assurance
Akimeka is leading an effort for the DISA to
develop a capability that allows users on
classified networks to access information
resources and databases (i.e. JMAR) on
unclassified military networks using a standard
web-browser in support of the Global Combat
Support System (GCSS) family of systems.

• Systems Highlights
• Reduces costs associated with information
  sharing, while improving security and
  information flow
• Supports reach-back capabilities for deployed
  military forces
• Supports increased data sharing between the
  intelligence and law enforcement communities
• Proof of concept in May 2003

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Requirement

• Information to the Edge
• timely, accurate, and actionable personnel and
  logistics data to operational commanders at all
  levels
• Data fusion breaking the stovepipes
• Improved usability web-user-interface

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Development Goals

• Develop a prototype system that will demonstrate
  a baseline browse-down capability.
• Request a low-side web page from the high side,
  retrieve and display

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Who Needs This?

• DOD needs increased information sharing between
  people systems operating within its multiple
  security levels (TS/SCI, Secret, Unclassified)
• Increasing Coalition nature of military
  humanitarian operations drives need requirement
  for US ? Coalition information sharing
• Homeland Security demands inter-community
  inter-agency information sharing such as
  Intelligence ? Law Enforcement and DIA? CIA

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Information Sharing Requirements
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Looking forward

• Develop a competency driven team in Information
  Assurance
• Agency buy-in
• Build a lifecycle management program capable of
  support
• Accredited and deployable system of systems,
  supporting national defense, the intelligence
  community, and homeland security

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Looking Forward

• Product testing completed
• NSA approval pending
• June 05 the product will be turned over to the
  customer
• Future international system applications pending
• Akimeka prime contractor SAIC, PEC and NG subs