International Activities

Abstract

The mission of this program is to establish, sustain, and expand mutually beneficial international partnerships through the implementation of air, space, and cyber international cooperative research, development, test, evaluation, and acquisition agreements thereby supporting USAF and DoD goals and objectives. These International Agreements (IAs) will significantly improve US and allied conventional defense capabilities by leveraging our Allies' best defense technologies, eliminating costly duplication of research and development (R&D) efforts, accelerating the availability of defense systems, and promoting US and allied interoperability or commonality. The USAF is party to multiple air, space, and cyber bilateral and multilateral IAs to solve common US and allied military research and development efforts, develop materiel solutions, harmonize coalition requirements and build interoperability with our international partners. This program element funds the USAF to identify, develop, process, negotiate, implement, and manage IAs in compliance with statutory provisions, legal authorities, fiscal constraints, technology transfer controls, intellectual property rights, third party transfer provisions, equitability criteria, industrial base factors, and political-military interests. Included in this budget are: air, space, and cyber international armaments cooperation (IAC); technology assessment; specialized working groups; Air Senior National Representative (ASNR) activities; IAC program and project reviews; overseas R&D liaison offices; bilateral and multilateral staff talks; support International Trade Shows to promote cooperation and interoperability activities; Engineering and Scientist Exchange Program (ESEP); and Administrative and Professional Exchange Program (APEP). This program is in Budget Activity 6, Management and Support, because this budget activity includes research, development, test and evaluation efforts and funds to sustain and/or modernize the installations or operations required for general research, development, test and evaluation. These funds are not to be used for civilian salaries or the construction of permanent facilities.

Document Details

• Document Type: R2 Budgetary Justification
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2014
• Source ID: 1001004F_6_3600_PB_2014
• Service Agency Name: Air Force

Entities

Organizations

• United States Air Force

Tags

Communities of Interest

• Air Platforms
• Counter WMD
• Cyber
• Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Acquisition
• Air Force
• Air Force Research Laboratories
• Civilian Personnel
• Cooperation
• Cyberspace
• Engineering
• Geography
• Ground Control Stations
• Intellectual Property
• Interoperability
• Materials
• Military Research
• Space Systems
• Technology Transfer
• Test And Evaluation
• Unmanned Aerial Systems

Fields of Study

• Political science

Readers

• Civilian Systems Systems Program Capability Development and Upgrade Support Activity Expense and Pay Management.
• Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.
• Strategic Security Studies

Technology Areas

• Cyber
• Space