Gateways are not required for office E-mail. DMS provides integrated support for binary attachments, including office automation files, voice, imagery, and fax. E-mail transmissions are sent with no assurance of receipt. DMS provides guaranteed delivery, delivery and non-delivery receipts, and read receipts. E-mail recipient has no guarantee of the writer's authentication.
Writer is limited to known addresses.
A secondary objective is to improve both service and security. To achieve these objectives, a baseline from which proposed DMS cost and benefit can be measured, a target architecture that will satisfy all validated requirements, and an implementation strategy that will be used to evolve from the baseline to the target architecture have been identified and and documented. The DMS shall provide message service to and from all DoD worldwide users including US Government, allied, and defense contractor as needed.