Air & Space Operations Center (AOC)

Abstract

The Air and Space Operations Center Weapon System (AOC WS) program element provides development of Command and Control (C2) capabilities across the entire spectrum of air and space operations from the strategic to the tactical level. There are four funded projects within the AOC WS program element: AOC WS Modifications allow for the consolidation to a single baseline across the AOC WS enterprise and provide required modifications and pathfinder efforts for the AOC WS to remain interoperable, certified, supportable, and compliant through the development, integration, testing, fielding, and sustainment of new capabilities and upgrades; to include the utilization of commercial cloud environment providers with hosting equipment provided by the program. Modifications are required for the AOC WS to keep pace with evolving Government Off the Shelf (GOTS) components, integrated Commercial Off the Shelf (COTS) components, Department of Defense (DoD) directives, and changes in the underlying Information Technology (IT) environment, as well as to deliver effective training solutions for the user. Applications Development provides worldwide operational level C2 capabilities, which include: air battle planning, management, and execution; operational level C2 of Integrated Air and Missile Defense (C2 of IAMD); in support of DoD, Coalition Partners, and other government agencies. Unit Level: Unit Command and Control (UC2) provides both scheduling and mission preparation activities at the wing and squadron level, and the capabilities to report and track the success of each mission and influence decisions of future Air Battle Planning. Personnel Recovery Command and Control (PRC2) provides an adaptive, networked, decentralized and situationally-appropriate personnel recovery C2 system which supports personnel accountability and recovery missions worldwide. PRC2 delivers a globally accessible, collaborative, interoperable and integrated system to prevent, prepare for and respond to isolating events across the Range of Military Operations in the joint/coalition operating environment. The system collects, stores and delivers personnel/identity biometric data, emergency locator beacon registrations, isolated personnel reports, evasion plans of action, incident reports and other information management capabilities for predictive, preventive and personnel vulnerability analysis/assessment in support of Personnel Recovery across DoD and other national and international entities. This program element may include necessary civilian pay expenses required to manage, execute, and deliver AOC WS, Applications Development, Unit Level and PRC2 capabilities. The use of such program funds would be in addition to the civilian pay expenses budgeted in program elements 0605826F, 0605827F, 0605828F, 0605829F, 0605830F, 0605831F, 0605832F, and 0605898F. BA7 - This program is in Budget Activity 7, Operational System Development because this budget activity includes development efforts to upgrade systems that have been fielded or have received approval for full rate production and anticipate production funding in the current or subsequent fiscal year.

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Document Details

Document Type
R2 Budgetary Justification
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2019
Source ID
0207410F_7_3600_PB_2019
Change Summary Explanation
FY 2017 funding decreased $7.278M due to AOC WS Modification new start early to need. FY 2019 funding increased $97.429M due to new program structure; adds funds to continuously integrate service/joint applications into baseline via Agile DevOps efforts for the AOC WS to remain interoperable, certified, supportable, and compliant through the development, integration, testing, fielding, and sustainment of new capabilities and upgrades.
Service Agency Name
Air Force

Entities

Organizations

  • United States Air Force

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Cyber
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Agile Software Development
  • Air Force
  • Battle Management
  • Biometric Security
  • Command And Control
  • Cost Analysis
  • Department Of Defense
  • Engineering
  • Information Systems
  • Military Operations
  • Military Personnel
  • Program Management
  • Software Development
  • Space Operations
  • Systems Engineering
  • Test And Evaluation

Readers

  • Civilian Systems Systems Program Capability Development and Upgrade Support Activity Expense and Pay Management.
  • Personnel Management and Statistics in the Military and Department of Defense

Technology Areas

  • Fully Networked C3
  • Fully Networked C3 - Command and Control
  • Space

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