Work continues on the Joint Regional Security Stacks that are the first step toward the Joint Information Environment. DoD CIO Terry Halvorsen recently said the stacks will all be in place by the end of 2016 and operational in the first part of 2017, according to a report at Defense.gov.
“JIE is a concept. We’re not ever going to implement JIE,” Halvorsen said, speaking to the House Armed Services Committee subcommittee on emerging threats and capabilities. “What we will implement are the steps that get us to a joint information environment … [and] the first step is implementing the joint regional security stacks.”
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The JRSS is a component of the single security architecture that will help improve command and control and situational awareness, according to Col Daniel Liggins, the vice director of the JIE implementation office at the Defense Information Systems Agency, in an earlier C4ISR & Networks article. The first JRSS, at Joint Base San Antonio, Texas, reached initial operating capacity on Sept. 14, 2014.
Halvorsen became permanent DoD CIO on March 8.
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The stacks upgrade network security infrastructure. Each JRSS performs firewall functions, intrusion detection and prevention, enterprise management, virtual routing and forwarding, and provides a range of network security capabilities.
The JRSS stacks, he told the House panel, “replace our current individualized and localized security architecture and systems with a set of servers, tools and software that will provide better command and control and more security and do that at a lower cost.”
