Just as the
global information grid described by "True Names" in 1981 has become a reality, the Open IT environment described by Halting State in 2008 is already on its way.
Documents this in an architectural construct called the Constellation-Net--the Air Force portion of the
Global Information Grid. Pursues leading edge technologies such as new airborne networking concepts and standards through various test beds, laboratories and integration facilities.
These capabilities include Networking for LAN/WAN/MAN systems, Telephony, Security, Voice, Video and Data Communications, software, hardware and integrated solutions that assist in supporting the
Global Information Grid (GIG) architecture.
During the recent past, as the submarine communications program manager, Unetic has demonstrated exemplary service as a leader in transitioning the submarine force from the Cold War silent service to an active contributor to the
global information grid and the stealth component of network-centric warfare.
The DEPARTMENT of Defense (DOD) is in the midst of transforming its vast collection of information-technology systems into an interconnected
Global Information Grid (GIG), which will ultimately connect sensors to weapons systems, enable personnel to share information at will, and provide unprecedented levels of situational awareness to commanders at all levels.
Due to the size of the
global information grid and easy access to the electromagnetic spectrum, effects in Cyberspace can take place nearly simultaneously at many places.
This network-enabled software architecture will greatly ease the challenge facing developers who must support multi-mission computing and connect next-generation sensors to the
global information grid (GIG).
WIN-T is a component of LandWarNet, which is the Army's portion of the Department of Defense's
Global Information Grid (GIG) and the Army's counterpart to the Air Force's ConstellationNet and the Navy's FORCENet.
Department of Defense (DOD) officials currently estimate that the department will spend approximately $34 billion through 2011 to develop the core network of the
Global Information Grid (GIG), a large and complex undertaking intended to provide on-demand and real-time data and information to the warfighter.
Post Newsweek said the new title will be "unique" in its focus on how new technologies are affecting the Department of Defense's (DOD) missions and operations as they evolve into net-centricity, the DOD's net-centric plans embodied in the
Global Information Grid, GIG-Bandwidth Expansion and Net-Centric Enterprise Services programs, q-he magazine will cover the transformation of the DOD into a "knowledge-dependent, IT-driven enterprise" with information on finances, health and personnel systems, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, command and control, and communications.
However, in today's environment, neither intelligence nor communications can be effective without all-source processing, and this remains the sucking chest wound in the Department of Defense
Global Information Grid and the rest of the US government, both within the US intelligence community and within the other agencies representing the varied instruments of national power--diplomatic, commercial, etc.
The Net-Centric Checklist refers to the Net-Centric Operations Warfare Reference Model as "the target viewpoint of the Department's
Global Information Grid. This viewpoint is a service-oriented, inter-networked, information infrastructure in which users request and receive services that enable operational capabilities across the range of (1) military operations, (2) DoD [Department of Defense] business operations, and (3) Department-wide enterprise management operations.
