Black Pearl

Black Pearl is an Enterprise DevSecOps Platform comprised of two offerings, Party Barge and Lighthouse. Lighthouse is a resilient, production-grade DevSecOps Platform, tailored to meet specific Mission Owner requirements whether it be on-prem or in a custom cloud deployment. Party Barge is built from the Lighthouse baseline, designed as a Multi-tenant Development and Test environment (IL2/5) offering DevSecOps Tools-as-a-Service using a simple per user licensing model, and is fully managed by the Black Pearl Party Barge Team.

Benefits:

• Collaborative – Wiki, Chat, and Project Management tooling is provided to support Agile Project Management and associated methodologies include Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe).
• Efficient - Eliminates up-front capital investment in hardware and software, speeds time-to-value, and simplifies procurement and management with DevSecOps Tools-as-a-Service.
• Accessible – Access Black Pearl using either a CAC or ECA. Onboard within a day and be productive immediately.
• Extensible – Enables developers to bring in many of their own tools to support their pipelines.
• Tested and Secure - Supports automated test frameworks through ephemeral Test and Integration Environments. Customers can access to code scanning and container scanning out of the box. Achieve your Authority to Operate (ATO) in a fraction of the time and cost.
• Managed Path to Production – We can assist in the development of your CI/CD pipelines and connect you with your preferred production environment whether that be a cloud environment, a weapons system, or a system embedded within a vehicle at the tactical edge.
• Evolving – New capabilities coming to Black Pearl in FY25 include Cloud Production environments, RAISE certification, and IL6.

For more information, visit Black Pearl.
 

Enterprise Agreement Services

Department of the Navy Enterprise Software Licensing (DON ESL), Department of Defense Enterprise Software Initiative (DoD ESI), and DoD Core Enterprise Technology Agreements (CETA) efforts support DON, DoD and Federal agency stakeholders, providing enterprise agreements for streamlined procurement of COTS capabilities, utilizing established best practices in alignment with IT Category Management.

Enterprise Agreement Services (EAS) provides subject matter expertise regarding IT policy, contracting, negotiations, strategic vendor management (SVM), and commercial software license procurement. EAS facilitates collaboration across the DoD, which includes training and knowledge sharing in the disciplines of business intelligence, data analytics, emerging licensing models in Industry, and price benchmarking.

EAS efforts align with the National Defense Strategy (NDS), DoD Fulcrum, the National Defense Business Operations Plan (NDBOP), and DoD Digital Modernization Strategy directly supporting DoD IT Reform efforts to improve IT Category Management, utilizing best practices to deliver lowest defensible prices and best value to its customers.

For more information, visit Enterprise Agreement Services.
 

MCBOSS

Offering a fully accredited AWS GovCloud environment that provides software development capabilities, enabling Department of the Navy Mission Owner’s iterative solution development. These service offerings include DevSecOps tools, Platform as a Service, Infrastructure as a Service, and Cloud Native Service offerings. MCBOSS is on the leading edge of DoD Cloud Engineering, improving the Application Development team experience. The MCBOSS cloud environment is designed to be self-service to the greatest extent possible.

For more information, visit Marine Corps Business Operations Support Services.

Naval Enterprise Services Desk

The Naval Enterprise Services Desk (NESD) is a centralized support center that provides Tier 0/1 support services to assist Naval personnel users (sailors, marines, and civilians) 24 hours a day/7 days a week both afloat and ashore. Users can navigate to the Digital Workplace (DWP) to either search the catalog for a knowledge article to resolve issues, access the chat function, or directly submit a ticket; call the support line; or send an email for technical support. NESD integrates state-of-the-art information technology (IT) and artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) capabilities with standardized processes to provide expedient and high-quality resolutions to support requests.

The initiative consolidates disparate Tier 1 help desks, programs, and systems across the Naval enterprise to support the Department of Defense (DoD) and Department of the Navy (DON) priorities (highlighted under Benefits).

For more information, visit the NESD website.

Naval Identity Services

Naval Identity Services (NIS) is the cloud-based designated enterprise solution providing centralized Identity, Credential, and Access management (ICAM) for the Department of the Navy (DON) systems and operational environments via secure and user-friendly tools.

NIS Provides:

• Efficiency | Expanded, improved, simplified, access to critical systems as the defense mission increasingly goes online
• Improved Security | Provide consistent access enforcement, increasing both audit compliance and furthering progress toward Zero Trust
• Strategic Alignment | Provide modern service delivery and opportunities to integrate with DoD-wide access initiatives
• Portfolio Rationalization | Reduce redundancies of effort through consolidated access solutions serving multiple systems

For more information, visit Naval Identity Services.

Neptune Cloud Management Office

The Neptune Cloud Management Office is the DON’s cloud service management organization responsible for optimizing and rationalizing the DON cloud portfolio and providing customers the best possible solutions while realizing cost savings across the department. Neptune is the single point of entry for the acquisition and delivery of cloud services across the Navy and Marine Corps. We are making it faster and easier for customers to identify, acquire, and consume the cloud services they need to modernize and execute their mission.

For more information, visit the Neptune Cloud management Portal.