Information Warfare Support

Abstract

This Program Element funds research and development of strategy, assessment, and information operations (IO) capabilities required in support of Air Operation Center (AOC) command and control processes and supported combatant commanders. Programs currently supported include the Information Warfare Planning Capability (IWPC) - the Joint Forces Air Component Commander's (JFACC) system of record for strategy, operational assessment and network mapping/network nodal analysis. IWPC is a full-spectrum, offensive and defensive, planning capability. IWPC is an AOC weapon system component which enables operators to develop courses of action for the JFACC, create Air Operations Directives (AODs) and Joint Air Operations Plans (JAOPs), and nominate IO "targets" for inclusion into the Master Air Attack Plan and the Joint Integrated Prioritized Target List (JIPTL). This project funds the development and upgrade, testing and evaluation, and installation and training of an evolving suite of interoperable planning and decision support capabilities comprised of software, hardware, and communications products. This project will identify and implement an open, scalable system architecture that will accommodate growth as the virtual world grows and cyber operations change. The project builds functional software modules that are designed to be interoperable with Command and Control (C2) systems such as the Theater Battle Management Core System (TBMCS), Joint Targeting Toolbox, and other AOC tools. This PE funds development and continued research to identify existing military and commercial efforts which can satisfy unfulfilled operational requirements for IO analysis, targeting, planning, and integration. Activities also include studies and analysis to support both current program planning and execution and future program planning. FY13 funding also supports the National Technical Nuclear Forensics (NTNF) program. The NTNF program provides the US Government's framework to identify the source of a nuclear detonation in US or allied territory. AF contributions to this effort, include, but are not limited to collection of airborne particulate material following an incident. Currently, collection would be accomplished via a WC-135 Constant Phoenix aircraft, which is a limited availability asset (only one primary aircraft in the fleet). The Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) is developing a harvester pod with the potential of being mounted on an aircraft that will provide additional capacity to conduct this mission. Funding will provide integration and testing of that pod. 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, 2014
• Source ID: 0208021F_7_3600_PB_2014
• Service Agency Name: Air Force

Entities

Organizations

• United States Air Force

Tags

Communities of Interest

• Air Platforms
• C4I
• Cyber
• Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Acquisition
• Air Force
• Aircrafts
• Combatant Commanders
• Command And Control
• Cost Analysis
• Costs
• Cyberspace Operations
• Information Operations
• Information Warfare
• Materials
• Nuclear Forensics
• Targeting
• Test And Evaluation
• Warfare
• Weapon Systems

Readers

• Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.
• Irregular Warfare and Special Operations Cyberspace Operations against Adversarial Threats.
• Joint Military Operations and Doctrine.

Technology Areas

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