From Business to Battlespace, EDS Helps Defense Agencies Transform
EDS understands the demands now facing defense and intelligence organizations. Throughout its partnerships with leading industrial and commercial organizations around the world, EDS creates global business solutions that can have key applications for other markets. We have been instrumental in applying that commercial technology and best practice to military requirements, always looking to share improved performance at reduced cost.
Effective Information Systems
Results:
- Secure Web, messaging and collaborative planning
- Effective communication and accurate operational information
In the UK, EDS developed the Joint Operation Command System (JOCS) for the Permanent Joint Headquarters. JOCS is a successful and operationally proven command information system that supports the business processes of organizations such as Joint Intelligence, Joint Operations and associated support and specialist organizations. JOCS supports deployed headquarters and provides command information services and connectivity to permanent UK and overseas sites. EDS developed the Joint Operations Picture (JOP), which provides information management, situation awareness and decision support tools for all Joint Force data objects. The JOP – combined with facilities such as the secure Web, messaging and collaborative planning – enables the Commander to communicate effectively and source timely and accurate operational information, hence improving operational planning tempo.
Ensuring Infrastructure is Survivable, Manageable, Available, Flexible and Secure
Results:
- Vulnerabilities and single points of failure identified and eliminated
- Common IT infrastructure that’s operated by a single owner agency
In the wake of September 11, the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) faced a monumental challenge of ensuring the survivability of the nation’s military command center, the Pentagon. It needed a secure infrastructure to communicate both with mainframes and servers, networks, voice communications and the ability to pass message traffic around the world. It was critical that the vulnerabilities and single points of failure be found and eliminated. In 2003, the Pentagon awarded EDS a systems integration contract for the Command Communications Survivability Program (CCSP), in coordination with the Pentagon Renovation and Construction Program Office. Now there is a common IT infrastructure that’s operated by a single owner agency, which simplifies the delivery of services, and enhanced security makes it very manageable. The Pentagon enjoys flexibility in the ability to change where tenants can operate and communicate from, and it’s always available with redundancy and diversity in the infrastructure. CCSP is a survivable infrastructure that supports the DoD’s mission. Collaboration and partnership between the Pentagon and EDS was critical to the program’s success. EDS managed a $300 million plus budget and led more than 25 subcontractors comprising 610 personnel to a successful program completion in December 2005.
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