Defense and National Security

Since 2001, CCIS has been working to address critical gaps in information systems capabilities for the Global War on Terror while supporting defense transformation toward a net-centric, knowledge-based force.

Our experience includes command-and-control, planning, intelligence, and logistics solutions at the tactical operation levels. CCIS is distinguished as one of the first practitioners of agile software development for defense IT solutions and by being at the leading edge of net-centric solutions through our participation in the Horizontal Fusion initiative, which was later absorbed into the Net-Centric Enterprise Services (NCES) program.

Some of the company's projects in the National Defense and Security practice area include:

• A deployment planning application has been used by the 82d Airborne Division to plan complex deployments of large task forces across multiple staging bases and multiple modes of transportation (including airland, airborne, sealift, line-haul, and rail), analyze "what-if" scenarios, and automatically generate Time-Phased Force Deployment (TPFDD) data.
  This application was successfully used in both training exercises
  and in operational deployments to Afghanistan and Iraq and reduced
  the planning cycle in the G4 Division Transportation Office from 12-plus hours to 30-60 minutes.




• A battlefield information management system, FusionNet, is a distributed, Web-based solution for reporting, managing, and analyzing events in a forward theater of operations, ranging from IED and indirect fire attacks on friendly forces to key leader engagements in the civil/military operations campaign. The application has been used in both Operation ENDURING FREEDOM and Operation IRAQI FREEDOM and was a key partner in the Horizontal Fusion initiative to deploy the first operational service-oriented architecture in 2005. Also see Microsoft's write up on FusionNet or check out our white papers section to Learn More »



• A mission planning and intelligence analysis application entitled SOF360 has been developed for the US Special Operations Command (USSOCOM). This application fuses and visualizes data from a variety of data sources and provides a variety of robust analytical capabilities, including terrain analysis to identify possible friendly and enemy movement routes in the battlespace.
• An air assault planning application for the US Army's 82d Airborne Division allows the Regimental Aviation Officer to compress his planning cycle for an air assault operation from 12-16 hours to under 60 minutes. The application imports pick-up zones, landing zones, routes, and other air planning information from GTRI's FalconView/Portable Flight Planning System (PFPS), allows the user to prioritize loads based on the Ground Tactical Plan, and can then manually or automatically distribute loads across chalks and lifts. The planning process accounts for time of flight, loading/unloading time, fuel consumption, and a full range of other factors and can automatically export a complete set of Air Mission Briefing products to the Microsoft Office Excel and PowerPoint applications.