C4I Dominance Technology

Abstract

The Air Force requires advanced technologies which support the Air Force five core missions and enable the Air Force to achieve Global Vigilance, Global Reach, and Global Power in support of national security objectives. The technologies developed under this project enable the National Defense Strategy and Air Force future operating concepts which require operational agility (the ability to rapidly generate—and shift among—multiple solutions for a given challenge), creating combinations of air, space, and cyberspace capabilities to achieve desired effects in the battlespace. This project provides the technologies for secure, self-configuring, self-healing, seamless networks; advanced communications processors; anti-jam and low probability of intercept communications techniques; agile and dynamic policy-based network management capabilities; and modular, programmable, low-cost software radios. In addition, it develops both the technology base for ultra-wide bandwidth and multi-channeled communications networks (both air and space based) on and between platforms. This project provides the technologies which enable the ability to globally share, discover, and access information across organizational, functional, and coalition boundaries and between and among domains, the timely delivery of information to tactical assets, the tailoring and prioritization of information based on mission needs and importance, and the scaling, robustness, and collaboration features required of the Air Force net-centric information management environment. This project advances technologies enabling the effective execution of military objectives that will vastly improve the ability to support the commander and staff's ability to command all viable options to achieve desired effects across the full spectrum of operations (air, space, and cyberspace) at all levels of war (strategic, operational, and tactical) and during all phases of conflict. This project provides technologies for anticipatory decision support; course of action development, planning, scheduling, and assessment; and the real-time effective portrayal of complex data sets. This project improves and automates the capability to generate, process, manage, fuse, exploit, interpret, and disseminate timely and accurate information. This project provides not only a network-centric, collaborative intelligence analysis capability that enables the fusion of multi-intelligence and sensor sources to provide timely situational awareness, understanding, and anticipation of the threats in the battlespace, but also the advanced, novel exploitation technologies needed to intercept, collect, locate, and process both covert and overt raw data from intelligence and sensor sources. In FY 2020, Project 625315 renamed from Connectivity and Protection Tech to C4I Dominance Technology. In FY 2020, Project 625316, Info Mgt and Computational Tech efforts will be transferred to Project 625315, C4I Dominance Technology, in order to realign technology areas that better support the National Defense Strategy and Air Force Future Operating Concept. In FY 2020, Project 625317, Information Decision Making Tech efforts will be transferred to Project 625315, C4I Dominance Technology, in order to realign technology areas that better support the National Defense Strategy and Air Force Future Operating Concept. In FY 2020, Project 625318, Operational Awareness Tech efforts will be transferred to Project 625315, C4I Dominance Technology, in order to realign technology areas that better support the National Defense Strategy and Air Force Future Operating Concept.

Document Details

• Document Type: Project
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2020
• Source ID: 625315_0602788F_2_3600_PB_2020

Tags

Fields of Study

• Computer science

Readers

• Irregular Warfare and Special Operations Cyberspace Operations against Adversarial Threats.
• Military Science and Technology Research and Modernization.

Technology Areas

• Cyber
• Space