Information Systems Solutions (ISS), Inc. provides information technology systems engineering support for the U.S. Army Information Systems Engineering Command (USAISEC) to implement and support Multi-Level Thin Client (MLTC) based on the Trusted Computer System's SecureOffice® suite. The ISS Team also supports the Combined Enterprise Regional Information Exchange System (CENTRIXS) at USSOUTHCOM in Miami, Florida. The ISS engineers are responsible for development, maintenance and expansion of the eleven proposed CENTRIXS networks in the USSOUTHCOM Area of Responsibility. Maintenance of the existing networks is approached using a three-tired help desk model for troubleshooting and resolving problems associated with all aspects of the CENTRIXS networks throughout the entire USSOUTHCOM Area of Responsibility, which includes over 600 U.S. and coalition users Central America, South America and the Caribbean Islands. This Help Desk involves workstations, servers, routers, switches, and the applications the network supports.
CENTRIXS provides for the rapid development, acquisition, installation, and operations and maintenance of a globally deployed coalition operations-intelligence system common to all combatant commanders, services, intelligence agencies, and coalition nations. We have implemented a TCS SecureOffice® Trusted Thin Client solution for the CENTRIXS networks and are in the process of doing the same for SOUTHCOM's SIPRNET and NIPRNET. The purpose of the MLTC is to provide users access to multiple security enclaves via a single thin client. We have experience with technologies such as TCS SecureOffice® Trusted Thin Client, NetTop2, DoDIIS Trusted Workstation and other thin client solutions. Our engineers currently maintain four networks (BLCOL, GCTF, MCFL, and MLEC) and are finalizing plans for several additional CENTRIXS networks. Our engineers have tested computing system security and applied security templates and patch updates (IAVA) to eliminate vulnerabilities. We have fielded Windows and UNIX workstations and servers, storage hardware, encryption devices and all network components necessary to create a global network to enable US forces to communicate securely with our allies around the world.
Due to the travel required to install these networks we have gained valuable experience with the logistics required to travel and convey equipment to the various locations throughout the Caribbean and South America.
