Global Combat Support System

Abstract

Global Combat Support System-Air Force (GCSS-AF) provides 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 infrastructure and provided Air Force enterprise common services are a critical basis for the target common computing environment (CCE) effort which Air Force Guidance Memorandum has directed for all new and modernizing IT applications. This effort is the Air Force evolution to DoD Joint Information Environment (JIE) leveraging Core Data Centers (CDCs) and DISA-brokered cloud capabilities in compliance with the Air Force Information Technology (AF IT) baselines. This framework is a set of baseline-driven platform and infrastructure services in both physical and virtual hosting environments. It is comprised of development tools, an initial set of enterprise services, and governance processes critical to JIE management. This 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. Activities also include capability development of an automated risk management framework to assess and mitigate cyber and other threats to Air Force information technology and mission assets. This capability eliminates stove pipes and provides commanders with better situational awareness of vulnerabilities. Additionally, this capability promotes efficiency and sound resource allocation by enabling commanders to make better decisions when selecting risk reduction counter measures. 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, 2016
• Source ID: 0303141F_7_3600_PB_2016
• Service Agency Name: Air Force

Entities

Organizations

• United States Air Force

Tags

Communities of Interest

• Cyber
• Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

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

Fields of Study

• Computer science

Readers

• Aerospace logistics and air mobility.
• Civilian Systems Systems Program Capability Development and Upgrade Support Activity Expense and Pay Management.
• Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.

Technology Areas

• Cyber