The US Treasury Department

Navstar has been a key contractor on the Treasury Communications System (TCS) Project for the past nine years.  TCS is the largest civilian government network with more than 1,500 locations.  The TCS mission is to provide low cost, secure, and reliable telecommunications services to Treasury, the bureaus of Treasury and their business partners.

Navstar has laid the foundation for a majority of the technical staff on the TCS System Support team.  This team is responsible for the engineering and implementation of the integrated network management system (INMS), internal networking, service hosting and solution engineering and deployment.  Navstar also supports the operations and maintenance functions of the project.

Some of the significant accomplishments that Navstar has contributed to on the TCS project are the reengineering of the network management system (NMS), re-architecting the TCS internal networking, lowering operating costs through consolidation and virtualization and implementing ITIL based processes for internal management functions.

The primary function of the TCS project is to provide network connectivity for the Department of Treasury and its bureaus.  To properly support this function network management is a critical function.  Navstar is responsible for the engineering and implementation of the integrated network management system, or INMS.  The applications that are integrated into this solution are, HP OpenView Network Node Manager, CiscoWorks LAN Management Solution, Zenoss and other Open Sources tools.

Internal networking was re-architected and upgraded by the Navstar team, resulting in higher availability, better management and drastically improved security.  The team was able to integrate new switching technologies into the existing infrastructure, and take advantage of the existing NMS for management and monitoring of the solution.

The United States Coast Guard

Navstar Inc. provided key leadership level support for this critical Coast Guard Initiative. The project involved work on multiple architectures, SOA planning and consolidation planning for C2 systems.

USCG C2 Convergence & Enterprise Architecture

The United States Coast Guard (USCG) carries out a series of critical missions for the Department of Homeland Security each and every day. Most people do not realize the extent of their mission and the level of coordination between the USCG, DHS and DoD needed to successfully carry out those missions.

The USCG mission requires a sophisticated Command and Control (C2) framework in order to manage the assets and information associated with their support of the maritime domain. There are literally 100’s of information systems in a number of agencies that help to coordinate C2 activities.

In 2007, the Coast Guard began examining options for transformation of their C2 capabilities. That transformation included analysis of system consolidation options, Service Oriented Architecture and IT strategy for process improvement across mission areas.

Navstar was selected to help lead this analysis and develop a transformation enterprise architecture.

We approached the effort as an Agile, high impact project – the C2 Convergence Initiative lasted only 8 months but involved a significant number of deliverables including an EA, strategic reports and Web 2.0 knowledge resources. In that time we were able to correlate existing architectures, determine SOA alternatives and design options as well as determine the system of systems integrations challenges associated with the convergence.

US Army Netcom

The Navstar team was a key player on both the AENIA NETOPS architecture team as well as the Area Processing Center (APC) Design team.

In 2005, the United States Army made a major decision regarding the strategic goals of its network management capabilities – it determined that its NETOPS infrastructure and processes had to be consolidated in order to achieve greater efficiencies. This NETOPS transformation would also provide the Army with new services and capabilities not previously available.

This project was managed by US Army Netcom ESTA and involved the development of a cutting edge NETOPS enterprise architecture as well designs for the Army’s new Area Processing Centers (APCs). Navstar played a key in both of these efforts, providing leadership and support for the EA as well as the APC transformation activities.

The Army NETOPS initiative provided a model for other services to follow and Area Processing Centers are now being developed for the USAF as well.