DIB 5th Edition

The DIB is a common set of enterprise service standards and software that allows for seamless information sharing between DCGS sites and systems.  DIB capabilities allow intelligence information to be discovered, retrieved and analyzed across Service, Agency and organizational boundaries. The DIB is fully open and documented to ensure that any US government entity or government-contracted vendor can integrate DIB software and services, and develop and integrate services to the DIB. The current core of the DIB, the Distributed Data Framework (DDF), is Free and Open Source Software (FOSS), completely available to the public and international partners.

The DIB was developed under the management of the DCGS Multi-Service Execution Team Office (DMO) located at Hanscom AFB in Massachusetts. The DIB and the information services implemented in the DoD DCGS Enterprise improves the collaborative, distributed, Distributed Common Ground / Surface Systems (DCGS) Enterprise. Open and documented standards (commercial and government) are critical to this effort. The intent is to reduce the proliferation of proprietary system and application solutions and standardize data interfaces for the DCGS Enterprise and improve intelligence information sharing. Additionally, the DMO intends to put the agile process on contract; not a set of requirements.

The DIB enables an alignment between the warfighter and information technology (IT) through a unified, cross-platform integration platform that bridges the gaps between people, processes, applications, and information. It provides the requisite tools, architecture, documentation, and standards for the DCGS Family of Systems (FoS) to have the flexibility to meet dynamic warfighter requirements. The DIB provides the basis for a flexible solution for governing, integrating, deploying, securing, and managing services.