Horizontal Integration
Abstract
Horizontal Integration (HI) develops an integrated mission environment that supports cross-cutting solutions across the air, space, and cyberspace Command and Control (C2) warfighter domain. HI activities include: requirements, architecture, systems engineering, technology development, risk reduction, prototyping, and transition. These activities are required to: identify, design, develop, experiment, and implement C2 solutions supporting warfighting integration and interoperability needs which are not the sole responsibility of a specific program of record. The nature of integrated and interoperable C2 warfighting capabilities span multiple platforms and domains. These capabilities are routinely being adjusted to meet the changing requirements from the warfighting communities. The HI project is uniquely designed to look across platforms and domains enabling the Air Force to respond to the needs across the seams of individual systems. These horizontal integration initiatives will be prototyped, assessed, appropriately captured in requirements documents and then transitioned to programs of record for production, fielding and sustainment. Systems Engineering and analysis is the 'glue' that holds Command and Control Constellation (C2C) elements together and closes the seams in the C2 architectures. Capability analysis identifies areas where interoperability can be improved within the Air Force, among joint services, and coalition partners. Once capability issues are identified, they are prioritized and pilot initiatives are developed to provide solutions to the warfighter challenges to resolve the capability gaps. The HI project also helps to competitively prototype integrated solutions against validated program requirements. The benefits of these activities are two-fold: the operational community is able to weigh the cost, risk, and performance trade-offs between enterprise solutions versus program centric solutions, and it supports competitive prototyping of all acquisition programs. The synchronization of HI prototyping and program milestone requirements offers an effective environment for increasing interoperability while reducing the impact of this policy on multiple programs. An infrastructure environment manages a continuous distributed operational environment that supports air, space, and cyberspace C2 and rapid acquisition, prototyping, development, integration, and fielding. C2 initiatives may use this infrastructure to mature their development status prior to entry into JEFX for operational and technical suitability assessment. The HI prototype performances are assessed for operational utility, and the most promising initiatives/technologies will be matured and transitioned into weapon system configuration control baselines. Requirement documents will be published and revised, and a requirements database and implementation plan identifying the most significant C2C net-centric integration issues will be updated to catalog the activities necessary to accomplish this integration. In addition, this project supports concept exploration, program definition/risk reduction efforts, and studies that support continuous improvements in C2; including but not limited to: C2 of Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR), Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA) standards, cyber vulnerabilities, improvements to Air Force Processing Exploitation and Dissemination (PED), imagery and radar development, and interoperability with Joint Service, Allied and Coalition systems. Activities also include studies and analysis to support both current program planning and execution, as well as future program planning. This program is in Budget Activity 7, Operational System Development, because these budget activities include development efforts to upgrade systems currently fielded or has 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, 2013
- Source ID
- 675078_0207449F_7_3600_PB_2013
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