Each organization decides what information to make available through the Content Staging/Information Dissemination Management application. The Defense Information Systems Agency then metatags the data to make it searchable and retrievable.

The search technology is based on commercial search engines, including Compass, Google and Netscape. CS/IDM uses an enterprise data aggregation application from Inxight Software Inc. of Sunnyvale, Calif., to synthesize information gathered by its globally disbursed search engines.

DISA provides the hardware and software for the program. At individual locations, files reside on Sun Microsystems servers running Solaris 8 COE 4.5. But DISA has begun migrating data to central servers at Defense enterprise computing centers to make data available enterprisewide.

As part of the migration, DISA has begun porting CS/IDM to Red Hat Linux running on clusters of Dell servers at pilot locations at the DECCs in Columbus, Ohio, and San Antonio. DISA is using IBM VMware server virtualization software to maintain around-the-clock uptime, ease load balancing and make data maintenance transparent to end users.

To buy hardware, software and technical services, DISA is using GSA schedule contracts and the Air Force Network-Centric Solutions’ contracts.

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