Defense Information Systems Agency Extends DSA Net-Centric Enterprise Services Contract.FAIRFAX, Va. -- Doug Wagoner, senior vice president of DSA (1) (Directory Server Agent) An X.500 program that looks up the address of a recipient in a Directory Information Base (DIB), also known as white pages. It accepts requests from the Directory User Agent (DUA) counterpart in the workstation. , Inc., a provider of global information technology support to government and industry, today announced that the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA 1. (body) DISA - Defense Information Systems Agency. 2. (standard) DISA - Data Interchange Standards Association. ) has awarded two expansions to the company's contract supporting DISA's Net-Centric Enterprise Services Net-Centric Enterprise Services (NCES) is a Department of Defense program, managed by the Defense Information Systems Agency, to develop information technology infrastructure services for future systems used by the United States military. (NCES NCES National Center for Education Statistics NCES Net-Centric Enterprise Services (US DoD) NCES Network Centric Enterprise Services NCES Net Condition Event Systems ) Program office. The value of these expansions is approximately $1.7M; this is an addition to the renewal of the contract last fall at a value of $4.2M that continued the support DSA had provided to the program for the previous 2 years. Under the agreement, DSA will continue providing the NCES Program office with critical program support as it moves through the Defense Department's acquisition process. Support will include defining the requirements of the NCES Program, providing acquisition consulting for the creation of the Milestone documents, and assisting the Program office in its day-to-day operations. "There is no higher priority for DSA as a company right now than NCES," said Mr. Wagoner. "We know that all eyes within DoD and among the defense contracting community are on this critical transformational program. This scrutiny means all our company resources must be brought to bear to assure that the NCES Program is a success." "All of us at DSA are very proud of the responsibility that has been placed on us and equally proud to support the DoD in this effort that will have far reaching effects on the way information is managed and used," Mr. Wagoner said. About NCES DISA created the Net-Centric Enterprise Services (NCES) program to provide enterprise services in support of the Global Information Grid The globally interconnected, end-to-end set of information capabilities, associated processes and personnel for collecting,processing, storing, disseminating and managing information on demand to warfighters, policy makers, and support personnel. (GIG). NCES will provide Department of Defense (DoD) organizations ubiquitous access to reliable, decision-quality information through a net-based services infrastructure and applications to bridge real-time and near-real-time communities of interest (COI). NCES will empower empower verb To encourage or provide a person with the means or information to become involved in solving his/her own problems the edge user to pull information from any available source, with minimal latency (1) The time between initiating a request in the computer and receiving the answer. Data latency may refer to the time between a query and the results arriving at the screen or the time between initiating a transaction that modifies one or more databases and its completion. , to support the mission. Its capabilities will allow GIG users to task, post, process, use, store, manage and protect information resources (1) The data and information assets of an organization, department or unit. See data administration. (2) Another name for the Information Systems (IS) or Information Technology (IT) department. See IT. on demand for warriors, policy makers and support personnel. About DSA DSA provides strategic, secure, mission critical IT solutions to government and industry through three focused divisions: DSA Federal, DSA Life Sciences, and DSA Commerce. The company has over 40 years experience in systems and software engineering and integration services specializing in enterprise-wide information technology solutions. DSA is a leader in program management, information security and regulatory compliance. For more information, visit DSA at www.dsainc.com. |
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