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Information Engineer Richard Williams Principal Director GIG Enterprise Services Engineering DISA

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MILITARY INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

OCTOBER 2009 VOLUME 13 • ISSUE 9

FEATURES

COVER / Q&A COMSATCOM Alliance

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The Defense Information Systems Agency and General Services Administration are moving rapidly ahead on implementing the Future COMSATCOM Services Acquisition program. By Harrison Donnelly

FCSA: The Industry View

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Following the announcement that DISA and GSA would establish the FCSA program, Military Information Technology asked a number of satellite communications companies for their perspectives on the future of military and other government SATCOM procurement.

Army Tests the “Network Piece”

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The Army achieved a major milestone in its future networking capabilities late this summer with the start of limited user testing of the Early-Infantry Brigade Combat Team initial capabilities package by elements of the Army Evaluation Task Force. By Scott R. Gourley

21 Richard Williams Principal Director Global Information Grid Enterprise Services Engineering DISA

DEPARTMENTS 2 Editor’s Perspective 4 Program Notes/People 16 JTRS Update 18 Data Bytes

Into the Realm of Cyber-Assurance Shortly before leaving office, the outgoing chief of DoD information security reflected on his tenure and called for a new path focused on automated systems. By Robert Lentz

34 COTSacopia 35 Calendar, Directory

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INDUSTRY INTERVIEW DISA Ties Strengthen Net-Centric Strategy The relationship between the Network Centric Operations Industry Consortium and DISA has flourished and brought important benefits to both organizations.

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36 Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch President Inmarsat Government Services

MILITARY INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY VOLUME 13, ISSUE 9

OCTOBER 2009

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The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) has achieved an important advance in its cloud computing initiative, with the release in early October of the next version of its Rapid Access Computing Environment (RACE). Launched in October 2008, RACE initially allowed for the rapid delivery of test and development environments. The new release gives Department of Defense users the ability to self-service provision operating environments within the highly secured Defense Enterprise Computing Center’s production environment. With its rapidly accessible and scalable computing infrastructure, RACE uses virtualization and the nearly unlimited capability of cloud computing to offer DoD customers platform/infrastructure as a service in test and production environments, the first of its kind for DoD. “This is all about our customers,” said Henry J. Sienkiewicz, technical program director, DISA Computing Services. “RACE is a first for DoD—our users can now customize, purchase and receive their test and development computing platform within 24 hours, and the production environments within 72 hours, and that’s a must for worldwide missions with ever-changing computing requirements. “Our goal is to allow software development to securely occur within the decision-making cycle. RACE and other DISA initiatives such as Forge.mil, Global Content Delivery Services and the Net-centric Enterprise Services posture the agency to support the ever-evolving needs of the American warfighter,” Sienkiewicz said. RACE’s quick-turn computing solution provides DoD customers with highly standardized computing platforms quickly, inexpensively and securely. With RACE allowing for provisioning within the production environment, customers get self-service provisioning with streamlined accreditation. They’ll get pre-established inherited IA controls as well as the ability to promote projects and programs from test to the production environment. Harrison Donnelly SAN storage up to 1 TB per RACE server is also now available, [email protected] with additional storage from 10 GB to 1 TB in 10 GB increments (301) 670-5700 available.

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