Global Network Enterprise Construct GNEC Overview

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Global Network Enterprise Construct (GNEC)
Overview

• MAJ Timothy S. OBryant

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Purpose

• To provide you with an overview of GNEC
• The Warfighter Problem
• What is GNEC
• Why Transform LandWarNet
• Network Service Center Construct
• Validating GNEC using a series of OPVALS and
  Exercises
• Desired End-state

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The Warfighter Problem

• Ever changing information capabilities by phase
• Inability to Fight Upon Arrival
• SIPR capability

The only constant for the Warfighter is change
networks, email, telephone numbers, collaboration
tools, and file storage
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What is GNEC
GNEC is the focused, time-phased, prioritized,
resource sensitive Army-wide strategy to
transition LandWarNet from many
loosely-affiliated independent networks into a
truly global capability that is designed,
deployed, and managed as a single integrated
enterprise. LTG Jeffrey Sorenson, Army
CIO/G6 A Message to Our Strategic Partners
23 January 2009
Transformation of the Armys LandWarNet to an
Enterprise Activity
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GNEC Mission
CSA Memorandum LandWarNet - Global Network
Enterprise Construct Strategy
Implementation 2 March 2009
Over the next three years, the Army will
transform LandWarNet to a centralized, more
secure, operationalized, and sustainable network
capable of supporting an expeditionary Army in
this era of persistent conflict. -- Chief of
Staff, Army
A Soldiers Story
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Strategy
Transition from multiple unit-owned networks to
single enterprise network
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GNEC Concept of Operation
LWN- GNEC PLANORD Phases

Organizational

• LandWarNet Now
• Fragmented
• Not Standardized
• Unsecure
• Expensive

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Why Transform LandWarNet
As is
To be
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Implementation Strategy

• Phase 1 FY09 NSC in Europe
• Aggregate/Discover Establish Network Main
  effort CONUS, Europe, and SWA Supporting PAC
• Focus on greater collaboration network access
  to lower echelons, eliminate expeditionary
  capability gaps to CONUS Europe
• Enhance ability to provide defend Network
  Governance
• Phase 2 FY10 NSCs in CONUS SWA
• Extend Network Main effort CONUS, Europe
  SWA Supporting PAC
• Eliminate more expeditionary capability gaps
  CONUS, European SWA
• Phase 3 FY11 and Beyond NSC in Pacific
• Complete Network Main effort PAC Supporting
  CONUS, Europe SWA
• Ubiquitous access globally consistent security
  policies

Theater-based NSC deployment with Global
effectiveness efficiencies improvements
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Validating the GNEC Strategy

• Validating the GNEC Strategy through a series of
  OPVALS and exercises

AUSTERE CHALLENGE MARCH MAY 2009

• Exercised inter/intra-theater NetOps capabilities
• Exercised Continuity of Operations (COOP)
• Exercised and refined NSC doctrine
• Demonstrated single identity
• Validated use of a resource forest for
  collaboration
• Conducted inter/intra-theater Network Operations
  on SIPR
• Exercised NETCOM staff (and subordinated HQs)
  under GNEC

NSC OPVAL II 2010

• Have a single tactical identity for
  communication and access to resources
• Retain the ability to collaborate with higher,
  adjacent, and subordinate units across theaters
  through
• all phases of the operation
• Arrive in an austere operational environment
  ready to fight
• Conduct realistic training using NSC capabilities

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NSC OPVAL-I What We Did
EUCOM
CONUS
BCT EXECUTES THE MISSION
BCCS DATA
SERVICES
PRIMARY
BACKUP
BCCS(-)
RHN
BCCS DATA
APC
CPOF
CPOF
PORTAL
NETOPS
Europe -Theater Network Operations Security
Center (E-TNOSC) conducts NetOps activities
required to support BCT.
The BCT conducts the mission, and continues to
utilize the APC as a data and service backup
capability for the BCCS(-) system.
18th Fires BDEFort Bragg, N.C.

• Demonstrated NSC value-added capabilities
• - Early Collaboration - Single Identity -
  Fight upon Arrival
• Validated processes and procedures to execute
  Global Network Enterprise Operations
• First exercise operationalizing Network
  Enterprise Centers (NEC) deployed first Network
  Enterprise Support Team (NEST)
• Participating Organizations 9th SC(A), 18th
  Fires BDE, USAREUR, PEO C3T, PEO EIS, FORSCOM,
  TRADOC, ATEC

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NSC OPVAL Accomplishments
R Partial Success
R Success
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Desired End-State

• Enhanced Warfighting Capabilities
• Establish trust in the warfighter on always
  available capabilities from the desktop to the
  foxhole
• Enable the warfighter to put boots on the ground
  anywhere in the world with little or no notice
  and fight upon arrival
• Provide an effective, economical, secure, and
  well-managed network
• A single network with global access and joint
  interoperability

. . . globally accessible, useful and secure
for Soldiers deployed anywhere in the world. GEN
George W. Casey, Jr. Chief of Staff, US Army 02
March 09
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QUESTIONS