Operational System Development - Hq USAF Only
Abstract
This activity builds upon the deployment and connectivity of solutions being delivered under the DAF Advanced Battle Management System (ABMS) Program Element 64003F. The DAF executed Task Force Sentinel Stand (TFSS) to assess cyber command relations (COMREL) at the tactical edge. TFSS proved warfighters have a critical need to take their endpoint devices to austere locations and still access needed classified data without High Assurance IP Encryptor devices. Connectivity will allow relevant mission data requirements to the edge and through space with diverse access paths to deter adversary intrusions. This will include the SD-WAN (Software-Defined Wide Area Network) routing layer to transport content across nodes through both government and commercial communication paths. Through this effort the DAF will deploy, connect, and test SD-WAN solutions in direct support of USAFE, Air Force Forces Generation (AFFORGEN), and Agile Combat Employment (ACE) initiatives, to allow Combat Air Forces to connect, move and maneuver, and recover safely, reducing risk to mission and life. DAF CIO's vision is to provide resilient, software-defined, transport and portable end points that create efficiencies and resiliency in transport by creating a "Black Fabric" that allows multiple providers to transport multiple classifications, rather than the historic and vulnerable approach of 1 fiber, 1 network, 1 classification. In FY24, funding was allocated for activities to support deployment, connection and testing of an Operational EIT SD-WAN network in an "operational prototype" configuration, to demonstrate distributed edge intelligence and C2 "on-the-move.” Funding initiated deployment of network capability that could in the future, if successful, be scaled for employment across any DAF (or DoD) installation or weapon system. FY25 funds are focused on the following outcomes: - Codify requirements, through experimentation and evaluation activities, for provisioning future network solutions to proliferate and sustain the SD-WAN architecture for any DAF installation or weapon system. - Define the DAF level standards for ensuring access to a proliferated SD-WAN architecture, which aligns with analogous technologies employed in the private sector today, to allow the widest possible adoption of this capability in the future. - Deliver critical near-term infrastructure for OI championed ACE needs and to demonstrate a technology that supports broader Joint All Domain C2 objectives. This program element may include necessary civilian pay expenses required to manage, execute, and deliver weapon system capability. The use of such program funds would be in addition to the civilian pay expenses budgeted in program element 0605827F, 0605828F, 0605829F, 0605831F, 0605832F, 0605833F, 0605898F, 0606398F. In FY23 $0.000M was expended for civilian pay expenses in this program element, and in FY24 $0.000M is forecasted for civilian pay expenses in this program element. 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
- Project
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2025
- Source ID
- 673100_0303004F_7_3600_PB_2025
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