The Networks and Information Technology (IT) Security
Group, Code 606.1
- Provides strategic network planning, services, and capabilities
to efficiently meet overall Directorate research and mission
requirements
- Leads implementation of network security procedures
and functions to protect Directorate systems and data from
intrusions, and assures that Agency and Center security
requirements are met
- Works with the CIO’s Office and other Center organizations
to develop integrated design and management of IT networks
- Designs and deploys specific capabilities necessary
to support Directorate projects
Within the Networks and IT Security Group, the High
End Computer Network (HECN) Team manages the GSFC Scientific
and Engineering Network (SEN) as a non-mission-dedicated high-end
computer network at GSFC. The SEN services GSFC projects and users
who have computer network performance requirements greater than those
baselined for GSFC’s general-use campus-wide Center Network Environment.
The HECN also conducts network R&D and testbed evaluations with
advanced network technology. This research contributes to the next
generation high-end computer networks at GSFC.
An example of the HECN Team’s R&D is the GSFC IRAD-FY04-initiated
project “Preparing Goddard for Large Scale Team Science in the
21st Century: Enabling an All Optical Goddard Network Cyberinfrastructure” with
PI Pat Gary (606.1) and GSFC’s Information Technology Pathfinder
Working Group as Co-I’s. The L-Net Project recently
established a “Lambda Network” (in this case using optical
wavelength technology and 10Gbps Ethernet per wavelength) from GSFC in
Greenbelt, MD, to the Scripps Institution of Oceanography through the
University of California, San Diego over the National Lambda Rail, a
new national dark optical fiber infrastructure. |