Assured Worldwide Connectivity

Abstract

The Air Force requires advanced, net-enabled architectures and communications technologies in support of global kinetic and non-kinetic military operations, including a secure information grid for worldwide information delivery and exchange of near-real-time information including voice, data, video, and imagery. This secure environment will be rapidly deployable, mobile, interoperable, and seamless between the Air Operations Center and aircraft, either en route or in theater. This project provides secure information transmission capabilities for a persistent, global, survivable communications backbone network accessible for warfighters operating in all domains. It provides self-healing, self-configuration, anti-jam communication networking capabilities, and provides enterprise networking capabilities for agile, policy-based network management. In addition, this project develops and demonstrates flight ready systems consisting of high capacity radio frequency (RF) and optical components and architectures for next generation communications. 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. In order to enable multi-domain operations, the Air Force requires world-wide connectivity that is resilient and self-healing in the face of enemy attacks on communication and information assurance, able to withstand breaks in connectivity while still allowing users to collaborate with other connected operators to maintain localized situational awareness. The network balances the respective strengths of both forward-deployed forces and rear-based nodes. In FY 2020, Project 635320, Assured Worldwide Connectivity, efforts transferred to Project 635321, C4I Battlespace Dev and Demo, in order to realign technology areas that better support both the Air Force Future Operating Concept and National Defense Strategy.

Document Details

• Document Type: Project
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2021
• Source ID: 635320_0603788F_3_3600_PB_2021

Tags

Fields of Study

• Computer science

Readers

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