Global Combat Support System (GCSS)
Abstract
Global Combat Support System-Air Force (GCSS-AF) will provide the warfighter and supporting elements with timely, accurate, and trusted Agile Combat Support (ACS) information. This information will have the appropriate level of security needed for the Air Expeditionary Forces (AEF) to execute the Air Force mission throughout the full spectrum of military operations. The GCSS-AF program modernizes, consolidates, develops, and integrates Air Force and Department of Defense combat support information systems. The modernized system is being developed in compliance with and hosted on the Network Centric Enterprise Systems, replacing the Defense Information Infrastructure (DII) Common Operating Environment (COE). The modernized system is implemented and sustained worldwide and supports both wartime and peacetime requirements using hardware, software, and communications capabilities available from standard open systems government contracts and communications infrastructure programs. In this manner, GCSS-AF avoids added costs, removes business processing inefficiencies, reduces deployment footprint, and improves the speed with which information flows. Continued test and evaluation is critical to avoid technical obsolescence of this critical infrastructure and includes studies and analysis to support both current program planning and execution and future program planning. This program is in Budget Activity 7, Operational System Development, because the program modernizes Automated Information Systems (AIS).
Document Details
- Document Type
- R2 Budgetary Justification
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2011
- Source ID
- 0303141F_7_3600_PB_2011
- Change Summary Explanation
- As GCSS-AF moves into sustainment, it has reduced needs for RDT&E funding. The ramp down noted from FY09 to FY10 reflects the reduced need. The Air Force added $3M in FY09 to support the continued engineering and test support necessary to allow for mutually supporting compatibility among emerging applications and infrastructure, explicitly the Initial Infrastructure Build (IIB) and the Singularly Managed Infrastructure with Enterprise Level Security (SMIELS) pilot and further ensure continued warfighter support over the GCSS-AF infrastructure; and for the evaluation of the secure cloud computing requirements for the Air Force.
- Service Agency Name
- Air Force
Entities
Organizations
- United States Air Force
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