By Maj. Brooke Brander, Air Force Space Command Public Affairs
PETERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. (AFNS) -- In continued collaboration between the Air Force and the Army, the entire Air Force will migrate to Secure Internet Protocol Router, Department of Defense Enterprise Email over the next year.
Approximately 150,000 SIPR Network users will migrate to the Defense Information Systems Agency SIPR email enterprise services over fiscal year 2014. The Air National Guard will be first to transition to the SIPR email enterprise.
"The SIPR DEE migration allows the Air Force to leverage an enterprise JIE capability and improve secure email delivery services," said Brig. General Kevin Wooton, Air Force Space Command director of communications. "The migration to SIPR DEE provides significant operational efficiencies and allows the Air Force to focus on our cyber mission sets rather than email infrastructure."
The migration to SIPR DEE will reduce Air Force Operations and Maintenance cost while modernizing infrastructure. In addition, the migration will converge infrastructure services and make available enterprise services, providing operational capabilities that will enhance the Air Force cyber mission.
"The continued spirit of cooperation and partnership between the Air Force, Army, and DISA as we move toward JIE is greatly appreciated," said General William L. Shelton, Commander of Air Force Space Command. "The SIPR DEE migration will allow us to more efficiently use our cyber professionals, ensuring the cyber domain is secure as we continue to operationalize capabilities."
The SIPR DEE migration is another step toward the Air Force's move toward the Joint Information Environment architecture.
"The Air Force is very committed to JIE and we want to make sure we do it the right way," said General Shelton. "There are great opportunities that the Air Force is leveraging with SIPR DEE; however, there are still challenges with enterprise services on the NIPR Net specifically in the area of cost efficiencies."
The SIPR DEE migration is in addition to the new architecture-sharing and modernization agreement among the Air Force, the Army and the DISA focused on next generation network configurations and regional security stacks that will increase bandwidth and network security and avoid more than $1 billion in future costs.
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Thursday, January 28, 2010
US 2nd Fleet Establishes Communication Milestone with Canadian Navy
NORFOLK, Va. (NNS) -- The commander of U.S. 2nd Fleet (C2F) successfully communicated real time via the Secret Internet Protocol Router Network (SIPRNET) system with Canada's commander of Maritime Forces Atlantic (MARLANT) and commander, Joint Task Force Atlantic (JTFA) located in Halifax, Canada Jan. 20.
Previously, SIPRNET chat capability between C2F and JTFA was not available.
"This commander to commander chat marks an important initial operating capability," said Commander, 2nd Fleet, Vice Adm. Mel Williams Jr. to MARLANT/JTFA Commander Rear Adm. Paul Maddison during their online conversation.
"The Maritime Operations Command and Control capability is consistent with Second Fleet's focus to team with allies and partners," Williams said.
This additional command and control capability resulted from three months of multinational effort involving Information Technology technicians from Second Fleet, Maritime Forces Atlantic/Joint Task Force Atlantic and the United Kingdom.
JTFA and C2F train and operate together along with U.S. Coast Guard Atlantic Area in support of Northern Command's Maritime Homeland Defense. The need to improve communications was a topic during tri-lateral staff talks in Halifax, Nova Scotia, between U.S. Coast Guard Atlantic Area, Maritime Forces Atlantic/Joint Task Force Atlantic and 2nd Fleet Oct. 13-15, 2009.
The talks provided the opportunity for the three commanders, as well as personnel from each participating command, to discuss the concept of operations to conduct combined Department of Defense, Coast Guard and Canadian forces maritime operations, exercises, information sharing and communications.
Previously, SIPRNET chat capability between C2F and JTFA was not available.
"This commander to commander chat marks an important initial operating capability," said Commander, 2nd Fleet, Vice Adm. Mel Williams Jr. to MARLANT/JTFA Commander Rear Adm. Paul Maddison during their online conversation.
"The Maritime Operations Command and Control capability is consistent with Second Fleet's focus to team with allies and partners," Williams said.
This additional command and control capability resulted from three months of multinational effort involving Information Technology technicians from Second Fleet, Maritime Forces Atlantic/Joint Task Force Atlantic and the United Kingdom.
JTFA and C2F train and operate together along with U.S. Coast Guard Atlantic Area in support of Northern Command's Maritime Homeland Defense. The need to improve communications was a topic during tri-lateral staff talks in Halifax, Nova Scotia, between U.S. Coast Guard Atlantic Area, Maritime Forces Atlantic/Joint Task Force Atlantic and 2nd Fleet Oct. 13-15, 2009.
The talks provided the opportunity for the three commanders, as well as personnel from each participating command, to discuss the concept of operations to conduct combined Department of Defense, Coast Guard and Canadian forces maritime operations, exercises, information sharing and communications.
Sunday, February 15, 2009
JStars Now Has SIPRNet Capability
by Monica D. Morales, 66th Air Base Wing Public Affairs
HANSCOM AIR FORCE BASE, Mass. (AFNS) -- The 751st Electronic Systems Group here has now completed an effort to provide operators at workstations onboard the Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System the ability to chat, e-mail and browse the Defense Department's secure Secret Internet Protocol Router Network from any location.
The completed installation of a beyond-line-of-site ground-entry station in Virginia late last month marked the finale of the program, which came to fruition in response to an urgent operational need -- and came both on time and on cost.
"In a time when delivering programs on cost and on schedule can be challenging, BLOS is a success in both respects, coming in early and on cost while also meeting an urgent warfighter need," said Capt. Kate Stowe, BLOS program manager.
Beyond-line-of-sight communication capabilities use two straight lines, one going from an origination point to an orbiting satellite and another coming from the satellite to the second point to relay intelligence data. The globally available data and voice communications are enabled via connection to an existing commercial satellite, allowing for heightened communication and smoother recall of intel data.
In February 2007, Air Forces Central Command Commander Lt. Gen. Gary North asked to have this feature added to the E-8C fleet in the command's area of responsibility. Operating under a UON request, members of the 751st ELSG, along with operational users at the 116th Air Control Wing at Robins Air Force Base, Ga., and prime contractor Northrop Grumman Corp., got to work to meet the warfighter need.
The fleet of aircraft received the upgrades at Robins, with each undergoing a six-day retrofitting process that included the addition of new equipment. The first of these jets was in theater by March, with the last of the aircraft being retrofitted in early December.
The feedback from operational users reflects that the enhanced capabilities all point to added precision in executing the mission.
"By about May, we started hearing from users that the chat capability had broadened the number of people that can interact on a real-time basis," said Paul Scoville, a contractor that works with the program.
But the capability goes further, Captain Stowe said, in that the communication tools offer flexibility in how the warfighter uses them to accomplish objectives. In other words, BLOS has changed the way the Joint STARS aircrew members conduct operations.
For example, imagery reflecting a potential threat can be put in a search engine for potential matches, imbedded in an e-mail for additional 'eyes on,' or inserted into chat conversations for convoys on the ground to confirm the threat level.
"BLOS has enabled them to do all of that in real-time, and has given the warfighter more heightened situational awareness," she said. "Where before they had one piece of intel, now they can layer on other intel, and that gives them much greater fidelity. It is this greater fidelity that has fundamentally changed the nature of how we're currently fighting the jet in theater."
With the UON met, exploring further uses and adaptations of BLOS is on the horizon. Mr. Scoville said that among them is gaining greater bandwidth.
"It's not something we necessarily have to do, but we have the potential to expand it and make it a non-commercial, government-only capability," he said.
Maj. George Peasant, also of the BLOS program, said that increased bandwidth would benefit the warfighter even more.
"That next path of gaining wider communication capabilities to the jet would mean a higher data rate," he said.
HANSCOM AIR FORCE BASE, Mass. (AFNS) -- The 751st Electronic Systems Group here has now completed an effort to provide operators at workstations onboard the Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System the ability to chat, e-mail and browse the Defense Department's secure Secret Internet Protocol Router Network from any location.
The completed installation of a beyond-line-of-site ground-entry station in Virginia late last month marked the finale of the program, which came to fruition in response to an urgent operational need -- and came both on time and on cost.
"In a time when delivering programs on cost and on schedule can be challenging, BLOS is a success in both respects, coming in early and on cost while also meeting an urgent warfighter need," said Capt. Kate Stowe, BLOS program manager.
Beyond-line-of-sight communication capabilities use two straight lines, one going from an origination point to an orbiting satellite and another coming from the satellite to the second point to relay intelligence data. The globally available data and voice communications are enabled via connection to an existing commercial satellite, allowing for heightened communication and smoother recall of intel data.
In February 2007, Air Forces Central Command Commander Lt. Gen. Gary North asked to have this feature added to the E-8C fleet in the command's area of responsibility. Operating under a UON request, members of the 751st ELSG, along with operational users at the 116th Air Control Wing at Robins Air Force Base, Ga., and prime contractor Northrop Grumman Corp., got to work to meet the warfighter need.
The fleet of aircraft received the upgrades at Robins, with each undergoing a six-day retrofitting process that included the addition of new equipment. The first of these jets was in theater by March, with the last of the aircraft being retrofitted in early December.
The feedback from operational users reflects that the enhanced capabilities all point to added precision in executing the mission.
"By about May, we started hearing from users that the chat capability had broadened the number of people that can interact on a real-time basis," said Paul Scoville, a contractor that works with the program.
But the capability goes further, Captain Stowe said, in that the communication tools offer flexibility in how the warfighter uses them to accomplish objectives. In other words, BLOS has changed the way the Joint STARS aircrew members conduct operations.
For example, imagery reflecting a potential threat can be put in a search engine for potential matches, imbedded in an e-mail for additional 'eyes on,' or inserted into chat conversations for convoys on the ground to confirm the threat level.
"BLOS has enabled them to do all of that in real-time, and has given the warfighter more heightened situational awareness," she said. "Where before they had one piece of intel, now they can layer on other intel, and that gives them much greater fidelity. It is this greater fidelity that has fundamentally changed the nature of how we're currently fighting the jet in theater."
With the UON met, exploring further uses and adaptations of BLOS is on the horizon. Mr. Scoville said that among them is gaining greater bandwidth.
"It's not something we necessarily have to do, but we have the potential to expand it and make it a non-commercial, government-only capability," he said.
Maj. George Peasant, also of the BLOS program, said that increased bandwidth would benefit the warfighter even more.
"That next path of gaining wider communication capabilities to the jet would mean a higher data rate," he said.
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