§ 362.5 - Responsibilities and functions.

(a) The Director, Defense Information Systems Agency, shall:

(1) Organize, direct, and manage the DISA and all assigned resources consistent with this part.

(2) Provide technical and management advice, and perform planning, support systems engineering, and test and/or evaluation support through the design, development, deployment, and evolution of the WWMCCS, as defined in DoD Directive 5100.30.1 This includes the National Military Command System (NMCS) under DoD Directive S-5100.44 2 and supporting Communications, especially connectivity to nuclear forces. In accordance with DoD Directive 5100.79,3 provide the necessary guidance, direction, and support to accomplish the definition of technical concepts and performance characteristics for engineering the WWMCCS in consonance with the approved WWMCCS architecture. Recommend revision of the WWMCCS architecture to meet changing policy, doctrine, requirements, systems environments, threats, technology, and resources. Provide planning, engineering, and technical support to the DoD Components, as needed, to ensure the evolution and integration of C3 and information systems within the WWMCCS.

(3) Perform systems engineering for the DCS and ensure that the DCS is planned, improved, operated, maintained, and managed effectively and efficiently. Ensure that end-to-end interoperability and architecture are adequate to meet mission needs. Exercise program management responsibility with management control over the activities of the DoD Components that directly support the establishment and improvement of the DCS.

(4) In consultation with the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, formulate the DoD-wide Military Satellite Communications (MILSATCOM) architecture. Analyze user requirements and maintain the user data base. Define system performance criteria for MILSATCOM systems. Establish, in coordination with the DoD Components, overall goals and long-term system plans and transitions for MILSATCOM systems. Perform general systems engineering to promote end-to-end interoperability and performance to meet mission needs. Analyze, on a continuing basis, Military Service programs, plans, budgets, and MILSATCOM systems performance deficiencies, and recommend corrective action, as appropriate. Manage, operate, and support the MILSATCOM systems office to perform functions specified in DoD Directive 5105.44.4

(5) Ensure the end-to-end interoperability of strategic and tactical C3 and information systems used by the NCA and the DoD Components for joint and combined operations. Develop and maintain joint architectures, technical and procedural interface standards, specifications, protocols, and definitions; and test and/or verify the interoperability of hardware and procedures for strategic and tactical C3 and information systems. Recommend certification for these systems and their equipment interfaces. With respect to tactical command, control, communications, and intelligence (C3I) systems, DoD Directive 4630.5 5 shall be observed.

(6) Provide automated information systems, analytical, and other technical support for Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff- and OSD-managed programs. Manage, design, develop, maintain, test, and evaluate standard operating systems and applications software for the WWMCCS, as directed. Assist in implementing configuration control over evolving information systems.

(7) Develop systems architectures and provide systems engineering support. Ensure the evolution of integrated C3 and information systems supporting the NCA's and DoD Components’ capability to effectively employ weapon systems and forces. Identify and implement technical improvements and assist the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Commanders of the Unified and Specified Commands in identifying C3 systems’ deficiencies.

(8) Manage nationally sensitive special C3 programs, as directed by higher authority.

(9) Acquire commercial communications services (e.g., long-haul telecommunications circuits, facilities, networks, and associated equipment) for the Department of Defense and other Federal Agencies, as directed; initiate and manage actions relating to regulatory and tariff matters, including rates for these commercial communications services; and manage and maintain the Communications Services Industrial Fund.

(10) Execute tasks as manager of the NCS as may be assigned by law or directed by the Secretary of Defense in the Secretary's capacity as Executive Agent of the NCS.

(11) Review Military Department programs and budgets related to the DISA mission, and recommend actions, through the ASD(C3I), to the Secretary of Defense.

(12) Provide DoD representation and/or participation in selected national and international C3 activities.

(13) Assist OSD and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff activities by assessing technology; recommend and conduct a program of research, development, test, and evaluation (RDT&E) necessary to ensure that C3 systems remain capable of performing their assigned functions in threatened environments. Monitor and coordinate, as appropriate, DoD Component C3 RDT&E programs.

(14) Exercise operational direction and management control of the DCS through the DISA Operations Control Complex and the Military Departments’ operations and maintenance commands. Perform circuit engineering and allocation, and direct restoral for the DCS, in coordination with the NCS's National Coordinating Center.

(15) Establish and maintain a major field independent operational test capability, as an Operational test agency (OTA) under the director, and conduct operational test and evaluation (OT&E) in accordance with DoD Directive 5000.1.6 Conduct OT&E in a mission and threat environment as operationally realistic as possible.

(16) Serve as Executive Agent and authority for the Joint Interoperability of Tactical Command and Control Systems Program and the Tactical C3I Interoperability Improvement Program.

(17) Provide administrative support to the White House Communications Agency and to the Office of Emergency Operations.

(18) Serve on the Military Communications Electronics Board.

(19) Provide liaison with, and communications support for, the United States Secret Service in accordance with DoD Directive 3025.13.7

(20) Develop and maintain databases of developmental and existing interoperability standards.

(21) Coordinate information system security (communications security and computer security) interoperability requirements with cognizant DoD Components.

(22) Review tactical C3 Fielding Plans and define interface specifications, develop and maintain a joint tactical C3 architecture defining joint tactical communications systems (including nonstrategic nuclear forces C3) required to ensure interoperability and information flow among command and control (C2) systems.

(23) Develop, test, and maintain technical and procedural interface standards to be used by tactical C3 systems in joint or combined military operations, in accordance with guidance provided by the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and verify that such systems have implemented the approved interface standards.

(24) Monitor and coordinate strategic and/or tactical C3 programs for which the DISA has responsibility, but which are included in the programs of other DoD Components and Government Agencies, and monitor other programs that may affect tactical C3 interoperability.

(25) Provide source documents from which the DoD Components can develop training materials to facilitate implementation of the tactical C3 architecture.

(26) Develop and maintain databases of tactical C3 developmental and existing interoperability standards.

(27) Coordinate secure tactical C3 communications interoperability requirements with the National Security Agency (NSA)/Central Security Service (CSS), the Defense Intelligence Agency, the Military Departments, and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

(28) In coordination with NSA/CSS and the Military Departments, and in accordance with DoD Directive C-5200.5,8 develop a tactical secure communications architecture as an integral part of the overall joint architecture, including orderly and timely introduction of systems to satisfy interoperability requirements.

(29) Provide technical support to the ASD(C3I) in the implementation of the Defense information management program and the Defense corporate information management initiative, to include administrative and technical support as directed by the ASD(C3I).

(30) Support the technical implementation of the Defense information management program and the Defense corporate information management initiative DoD-wide, to include the development and use of process, data, performance and economic models, and related tools; assisting in the development, coordination and execution of the DoD data administration program; providing, as tasked, information services to include operation and design activities and data processing centers; and assisting in the assessment of DoD information services’ efficiency and effectiveness.

(31) Perform such other functions as may be assigned by the ASD(C3I)

(b) [Reserved]