ABOUT NCES
Department of Defense (DoD) Net-Centric Enterprise Services (NCES) enables information sharing by connecting people and systems that have information (data and services) with those who need information.
- For people who have information, NCES provides global information discovery and delivery services.
- For people who need information, NCES provides global services to discover and deliver information.
NCES is creating better access to information, enhancing its reach, richness and depth, as a way to promote superior decision-making across the DoD community. We are building the infrastructure that enables net-centric operations to drive collaboration among people and systems. This approach will provide unprecedented visibility in the ability to measure the consumption and value of information, to assess needs without comprising affordability. NCES will make superior decisions a strategic advantage for DoD.
OVERVIEW
The NCES Program offers capabilities that are designed to interact with each other through a Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) approach. Applications that wish to use NCES services do so through well defined interfaces in accordance with SOA principles.
NCES offers Core Enterprise Services (CES), which are packaged into four product lines: Service-Oriented Architecture Foundation (SOAF), Collaboration, Content Discovery & Delivery, and the Portal.
Net Centric Enterprise Services enable:
- Value for Warfighter Users
- Improved situational awareness
- Better and faster decision-making
- Instantaneous global collaborative communities
- Increased “jointness” through better interoperability
- Broader and faster access to global battlefield capabilities
- Value for Business Users
- Improved ability to meet business objectives
- Increased ability to operate with commercial partners (e.g., financial institutions, vendors)
- Agile business processes
- Value for Intel Users
- Improved intelligence analysis
- Increased reach of intelligence products
- More responsive to intelligence requirements
- Value for Program Managers (service/data provider)
- Service providers of choice
- Satisfaction of dynamic requirements
- Reduced management and technical effort
- Satisfaction of interoperability requirements
- Value for Program Managers (service/data consumer)
- Reduced management and engineering effort
- Resource savings through reuse
