The process of managing information resources to accomplish agency missions. The term encompasses both information itself and the related resources such as personnel, equipment, funds, and information technology. These activities include analysis, acquisition, test, delivery, operation, or management of hardware, software, and communications systems. The ability to obtain and transmit information unimpeded to any destination as and when needed and to exploit or deny an adversary's ability to do so. This includes the ability to manage information throughout its life-cycle, i.e., to create, collect, process, disseminate, use, store and dispose of an unimpeded flow of information while exploiting or denying an adversary's ability to do the same.
Infrastructure is used with different contextual meanings.
Infrastructure most generally relates to and has a hardware orientation but note that it is frequently more comprehensive and includes software and communications. Collectively, the structure must meet the performance requirements of and capacity for data and application requirements. Again note that just citing standards for designing an architecture or infrastructure does not include functional and mission area requirements for performance. Performance requirement metrics must be an inherent part of an overall infrastructure to provide performance interoperability and compatibility. It identifies the top-level design of communications, processing, and operating system software.