1. Don Barnes, NCI’s PEO STRI Program Manager and Dominic Avellino, PEO STRI Deputy Program Manager
Case Study: Program Executive Office for Simulation, Training, & Instrumentation (PEO STRI)
“Managing DoD IT investments focusing on improving DoD capabilities and mission outcomes”
Since 2004, NCI has supported the PEO STRI Corporate Information Office (CIO) vision to become a strategic change enabler for technology and business
processes within the PEO and the Army. Working in close partnership with the Chief Information Officer of PEO STRI, we have been at the forefront of
supporting PEO STRI’s mission to be the strategic IT change enabler for the acquisition workforce by providing an integrated and interoperable environment
that is reliable, reusable, secure, collaborative, and provides productivity-enhancing solutions encompassing best business practices to support the Warfighter.
NCI provides a wide array of IT and professional services, including program management, network/system engineering, information assurance (IA),
asset acquisition and management, software development and system maintenance, IT infrastructure, and Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
support. Our dedicated teams of technical experts perform a full range of IA/network security functions, including DoDAF-based security architecture. We
support the primary data center in Orlando, Florida, managing more than 13 terabytes (TB) of data while supporting a storage area network (SAN) with
total storage in excess of 50 TB. NCI’s network operations team supports more than 3,500 users nationwide, providing Levels 1–3 help desk and supporting
all local area networks (LANs), wide are networks (WANs), connectivity, SANs, and telecommunication backbone.
Enterprise Systems Management
We design, install, and manage complex, mission-critical enterprise Infrastructure and Enterprise Systems Management
systems for our customers, increasing the reliability, security, and Infrastructure Operations and Management
efficiency of their IT operations while meeting stringent mission Outsourcing and Managed Services
requirements. As part of our overall network operation and Infrastructure Consolidation and Modernization
management services, we continually analyze and monitor Application and Network Management
enterprise system components and create systems that can adapt Application and Business System Performance Measures
to rapidly changing needs. We employ a knowledge-centric service Network Design, Implementation, and Migration
delivery assurance methodology designed to keep customer Network Monitoring and Performance Evaluation
mission-critical systems at peak performance. This methodology
utilizes network and traffic simulations to identify potential changes
in performance or possible security issues within a particular
network, allowing our engineers to protect customers’ systems
and data. Our network engineers are trained and certified in the
leading commercial enterprise tools and combine that knowledge
with our techniques, experience, and processes to deliver solutions
to our customers. Our enterprise systems management
services include the following: 7