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Joint Systems Integration Center Assessment Process

The JSIC assessment process is well-documented and consists of a nomination and selection phase, an integration phase, and an operational evaluation phase that determine the maturity, jointness, and warfighting utility of a commercial or governmental C4ISR technology.

The Joint Systems Integration Center conducts this process on one technology, a "toolkit" of technologies, or against competing technologies.

Testing could possibly occur against a functional, representative, or operational baseline. It could execute as a sequential process or in spiral fashion. The JSIC will tailor the process to the domain of the target technology in a rigorous and repeatable fashion.

This rigor and repeatability of the process that provides the validity necessary for acquisition.

A final report presents the metrics-based analysis done in the course of the assessment.

The assessment takes approximately twelve months in the case of the standard sequential process and approximately six months if executed in spiral fashion.

Nomination and selection is normally accomplished in a desktop analysis with some bench top evaluation in the laboratory, integration takes place in a JSIC experimental laboratory, the JSIC Joint C4ISR Integration Facility (JCIF) that contains all the major joint and service component C2 and intelligence systems for a joint task force (JTF), or in a distributed network that includes other service/agency/combatant commander C2 laboratories. The operational evaluation is conducted in an operational exercise.

Evaluators separate the factors of maturity, jointness, and warfighting utility into component elements and a methodology exists for each element.

• Maturity consists of requirements validity, programmatic viability, technical maturity, human interface and usability, and information warfare vulnerability.
• Jointness consists of information exchange and security accreditation readiness.
• Warfighting utility consists of usefulness and performance.

In addition to this analysis, evaluators also document a cost impact based on an operational employment concept developed during the assessment.

The JSIC assessment represents a partnership of technologists and warfighter operators with a heavy emphasis on the operational evaluation in the course of a joint exercise or training event.