Battlespace Knowledge Development and Demonstration

Abstract

This program develops and demonstrates Air Force enterprise-centric information technologies for the warfighter. The C4I Battlespace Dev and Demo project provides technology enabling the Air Force (a) to monitor, assess, plan, and execute missions rapidly across the full spectrum of operations at all levels of war and during all phases of conflict; (b) to field advanced, secure, net-enabled architectures and communications/network technologies in support of persistent, global, and survivable kinetic and non-kinetic military operations; (c) to process and exploit data and information from a variety of sources and domains to create a common operating picture of the battlespace; and (d) to provide the decision maker and staff with seamless access to tailored information within a mobile, dynamic, and scalable, globally distributed Air Operations Center, as well as among other producers, consumers, and managers of information relevant to other particular Communities of Interest (COI). The Cyber Battlespace Dev & Demo project develops the ability to deliver cyber-attack capabilities (access, stealth, persistence, intelligence, and weapons delivery), cyber defense capabilities (attack detection, attack attribution, and response automation) and cyber support capabilities (situation awareness and war gaming). This project will also develop (a) a science and engineering capability demonstrating new models of computation; (b) novel approaches for high performance, interactive, net-centric, distributed and embedded computing systems; and (c) the technological tools enabling affordable, large-scale, and complex software-intensive systems. The National Defense Strategy and Air Force Future Operating Concept established science and technology challenges to enable operational agility (the ability to rapidly generate and shift among multiple solutions for a given challenge) as a way to adapt swiftly to any situation or enemy action. Operational agility will require flexibility (manifested as multi-domain operations), speed (manifested as superior decision speed), coordination (manifested as dynamic command and control), balance (manifested as presenting a balanced capability mix), and strength (manifested as performance-optimized teams). In order to enable operational agility, this program will begin to shape future research and development (R&D) to focus on technologies in support of operational agility through multi-domain command and control (MDC2) capabilities. This program has been coordinated through the Department of Defense Science and Technology Executive Committee process to harmonize efforts and eliminate duplication. This program is in Budget Activity 3, Advanced Technology Development because this budget activity includes development of subsystems and components and efforts to integrate subsystems and components into system prototypes for field experiments and/or tests in a simulated environment.

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Document Details

Document Type
R2 Budgetary Justification
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2024
Source ID
0603788F_3_3600_PB_2024
Change Summary Explanation
In FY 2023, Congress directed transformational capability activity realignment into Program 0603032F, Future AF Integrated Technology Demos, Project 0603030, Air Force Vanguards, in order to provide a more complete picture of the Vanguard program. As a result, FY 2024 funding is reduced in the FY 2024 President Budget from the levels in the FY 2023 President's Budget.
Service Agency Name
Air Force

Entities

Organizations

  • United States Air Force

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy
  • C4I
  • Cyber
  • Human Systems
  • Kinetic Weapons

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Air Force Research Laboratories
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Command And Control
  • Cyber Defense Techniques
  • Cyberattacks
  • Cybersecurity
  • Cyberspace Operations
  • Data Analysis
  • Machine Learning
  • Military Operations
  • Multi-Domain Operations
  • National Security
  • Radio Frequency
  • Situational Awareness
  • Space Objects
  • Unmanned Aerial Systems

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.
  • Military Science and Technology Research and Modernization.

Technology Areas

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

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