GIG End-to-End Policy Based Network Management: A new approach to large-scale distributed automation

Providing seamless, reliable communications across the Global Information Grid (GIG) presents many unique challenges for network management. Beyond the fact that, as an entity, the GIG encompasses many diverse, operating environments (wired and wireless, tactical and strategic), it faces the challenge of operating a connected series of separate administrative domains which are each governed by different Services (and organizations with each of the services), Combatant Commands (COCOMs), and Agencies. At the same time, it is expected - in fact it is required - to operate as a seamless whole in order to support on-going missions - despite the challenges of a dynamically-changing environment and shifting mission priorities