PRELIMINARY Defense Collaboration Network/ International Collaboration Network GUIDANCE FOR ACQUISITION MANAGERS: An Innovative Practice for Information Sharing and Collaboration (Dec 1999)

The Defense Collaboration Network/International Collaboration Network (DCN/ICN) Collaboration and Information Services is an innovative practice for information sharing and collaboration using the Internet, World Wide Web (WWW), and database technologies. This practice applies the Continuous Acquisition Life-cycle Support (CALS) strategy and concepts including:

• The implementation of an Integrated Digital Environment (IDE).
• The acquisition of digital, integrated technical data with on-line access.
• The employment of a Contractor Integrated Technical Information Service (CITIS).
• The creation of data once in a standard format that any CALS compliant information application can use directly.
• The application of appropriate security measures for the protection of data in an electronic environment

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Preliminary DCN/ICN Technology Refreshment Assessment Plan (August, 1999).

This technology refreshment plan identifies and assesses current and evolving Web-based technologies for supporting the information and collaboration requirements of the DCN/ICN. These requirements support virtual enterprise teams that are geographically distributed across the world [e.g.,North America, Europe, North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), countries, and Korea]. The technology plan also builds a technology refreshment process model and a framework for the evaluation of current and evolving information technologies.

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ASSESSMENT OF THE DEFENSE COLLABORATION AND INFORMATION NETWORK/INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATION AND INFORMATION NETWORK CONCEPT OF OPERATION  June 1998 CDRL-D011

The Defense Collaboration and information Network (DCN)/International Collaboration and information Network (ICN) is a Department of Defense (DoD) and international network that uses the Internet to provide information and collaboration services to subscribers and organizations that support the goals and vision of an Integrated Data Environment (IDE). These goals include:

• Application of the best technologies, processes and standards for the development, management, exchange, and use of business and technical information.
• Affordable, readily accessible, and timely technical and business information.
• Increasing the agility and decreasing acquisition cycle times of the Defense Enterprise.
• Integrated product and process development.
• Application of national and international standards.

This Concept of Operation (CONOP) assessment document identifies the Purpose, Mission Need, Background, Solution, and CONOP for the DCN/ICN. Three perspectives to this operations concept are presented: a user or subscriber perspective, an Information Technology (IT) perspective, and a management perspective. These perspectives describe the DCN/ICN services from their respective points of view. Two final chapters provide a discussion of the supporting organization and facilities as well as some preliminary discussion of implementation issues and related costs of operation.

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PRELIMINARY DCN/ICN SECURITY PLAN SECURITY ARCHITECTURE FOR AN INTERNET-BASED NETWORK  January 1998 non-CDRL

The document provides the management and technical information necessary in order to implement security requirements for the Department of Defense (DoD) Continuous Acquisition and Life-Cycle Support (CALS) Network/International CALS Network (DCN/ICN). The DCN/ICN Security Plan identifies the security risks of providing Internet based services. It also identifies the derived security requirements to mitigate those risks, and assesses security alternatives and safeguards. In addition, this plan provides a preliminary security policy, and describes the security architecture, facilities, and processes needed to implement that security policy.

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