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 Net-Centric Enterprise Services (NCES), DISA's solution to connects people and systems that have information (data and services) with those who need information, replacing the DII 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. GCSS-AF also supports the Global Force Management - Data Initiative (GFM-DI) as a hosted application within its common infrastructure. Activities also include: Studies and analysis to support both current program planning and execution and future program planning and continued test and evaluation critical to avoid technical obsolescence of this critical infrastructure. Additional development activities for Platform as a Service (PAAS) and Software as a Service (SAAS) are directly aligned with GCSS-AF's service oriented framework and the movement of infrastructure and services to a Cloud Computer Environment (CCE). Funding will also support development and systems engineering activities, to include (1) facilitating improvements to system effectiveness through efficient segregation of mission capabilities (apps, services, applications) from underlying networking, middleware and computing infrastructures by using common architecture, standards, and services, and (2) employing a rapid/agile IT acquisition process to effectively deliver capabilities to the warfighter. This program is in Budget Activity 7, Operational System Development. These budget activities include development efforts to upgrade systems currently fielded or having 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, 2013
Source ID
0303141F_7_3600_PB_2013
Change Summary Explanation
FY11 Congressional General Reduction of 0.017M in Adjustment Row. FY13 funding increase for Enterprise Protection Risk Management (EPRM) and to support movement of services and infrastructure to a Cloud Computing Environment (CCE).
Service Agency Name
Air Force

Entities

Organizations

  • United States Air Force

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Cyber
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Air Force
  • Air Force Facilities
  • Cloud Computing
  • Combat Support
  • Computers
  • Contracts
  • Department Of Defense
  • Engineering
  • Information Security
  • Information Systems
  • Infrastructure
  • Military Operations
  • Risk Management
  • Systems Engineering
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Warfare

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.

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