According to the DoD Instructions 8410.02, the DoD Global Information Grid (GIG) is defined as:A "… globally interconnected, end-to-end set of information capabilities for collecting, processing, storing, disseminating, and managing information on demand to warfighters, policy makers, and support personnel.” The GIG is managed by a construct defined as GIG Enterprise Management (GEM), GIG Net [...]

The Computing Platform Architecture and Security Criteria (CPC) are the NSA documents that formally define the computing platform architecture, the platform components, and the computing platform instances. The CPC is the basis against which product developers can demonstrate component-level or component set-level compliance of their products, and system integrators can demonstrate platform-level compliance of the [...]