C2 Constellation
Abstract
The Command and Control Constellation (C2C) is the primary Air Force program for defining, developing and assessing integrated effects of global, theater and tactical level Air Force air, space and cyber Command and Control (C2) capabilities in support of the joint warfighter. The Air Force faces a complex future where conflict will range across a broad spectrum of operations and lethality. The Air Force requires capabilities with the maximum possible flexibility to deal with the widest possible range of conflict. The black and white distinction between irregular war and conventional war is an outdated model. Near-peers will use irregular or asymmetric tactics that target traditional strengths. Irregular warfare brings non-conventional adversaries that require non-conventional approaches for defeating them. The C2C is the enabling PE for future C2 Integration/Modernization. The Air Force is working to establish a C2 Framework to be used as a unifying vision of command and control for each of the services core functions and core function master plans. C2C will support the C2 Framework by providing a venue for prototyping, experimentation and innovation to develop non-conventional solutions and enable an improved "sense-to-kill" cycle time. C2C innovations and experimentation provides strategic, operational, and tactical direction for Doctrine, Organization, Training, Materiel, Leadership and Education, Personnel and Facilities (DOTMLPF) solutions to facilitate the integration of Global Effects that support Command and Control, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C2ISR) planning and execution for air, space, and cyberspace. In-depth development and analyses of C2C operational, systems, and technical architectures are geared towards identifying capability gaps, identifying required "TO BE" information services, and evaluating Command and Control, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C2ISR) program planned improvements. Through prototyping and experimentation, C2C will integrate rapidly developing technologies to promote common standards, data sharing and information services across Air Force and joint warfighting applications to support a networkcentric, joint enterprise solution to address these findings. C2C innovations will develop consistent with the Joint Airborne Layer Network (JALN) Initial Capabilities Document. Project 5078, Horizontal Integration (HI) conducts DOTMLPF analysis and assessments to guide cross-cutting net-centric, C2ISR sub-enterprise and cyberspace investment decisions that integrate USAF capabilities into joint and coalition operations. HI identifies, prioritizes, and develops horizontally integrated solution recommendations to ensure the latest technologies and information services are integrated into a cross cutting net centric C2 system that enables integrated Global Effects in all warfighter domains. The Fiscal Year 2012 strategy will be validated by HQ AF/A3 and AF/A5 to ensure that initiatives are harmonized with the most urgent warfighter needs described in the Air Force Capabilities Review and Risk Assessment and the Joint Forces Command Warfighter challenge program. Once validated, HI funds are applied toward identifying the most critical warfighter capabilities and ensuring they are horizontally integrated into both Air Force and Joint C2ISR programs of record. Project 5140, Joint Expeditionary Force Experiments (JEFX) has transitioned from a large biennial warfighting experiment to more agile, smaller and frequent innovation-focused experiments leading to pre-fielding operational assessments. Constructive, live-fly and virtual force operationally representative warfighter environments are created to focus on critical C2ISR areas of interest that support the Joint warfighter. This includes C2ISR innovation that supports the air, space and cyberspace domains. JEFX provides a vehicle for experimentation with emerging operational concepts and attendant new technologies that fill operational gaps in Air Force capabilities to meet emerging real world threats. The JEFX strategy is validated by Headquarters Air Combat Command (HQ ACC) and coordinated with AF/A3 and A5 ensuring initiatives are harmonized with the most urgent warfighter needs described in the Air Force Capabilites Review Risk Assessement and the Joint Forces Command Warfighter Challenge Program. JEFX themes are based on emerging CONOPS and warfighter challenges. JEFX initiatives are important enablers of innovation and transformation and are designed to support the themes and demonstrate emerging Air Force capabilities to deploy and employ decisive air, space and cyberspace power in support of the Joint Force. 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.
Document Details
- Document Type
- R2 Budgetary Justification
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2012
- Source ID
- 0207449F_7_3600_PB_2012
- Change Summary Explanation
- In FY 2012: The program has been funded to latest cost estimate, less efficiencies. The reduction for efficiencies is not intended to impact program content. Reductions for efficiencies in FY 2010 through 2014 are not intended to impact program content. Reductions for efficiencies may be spread to other Air Force programs at a later date. Amounts of the reductions are: $2.262M/FY12, $1.560M (Cursor-on-Target)/FY12, $2.493M/FY13, $2.794M/FY14, $17.465M/FY15, $17.866M/FY16. In FY 2012-2016, $7.774M from Project 5078, Horizontal Integration, transferred to PE 064281F, Tactical Data Networks, to support Cursor-on-Target (CoT) efforts.
- Service Agency Name
- Air Force
Entities
Organizations
- United States Air Force
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