Applications Development

Abstract

This budget activity funds operational development necessary to acquire, modify, and sustain segments of Air Force's Command and Control (C2) capabilities and services. Applications Development provides worldwide operational capabilities for AF C2 in support of DoD, Coalition Partners, and other government agencies. These efforts focus on, but are not limited to support of the Combined/Joint Force Air Component Commander (C/JFACC), which provides air, space and cyber support as presented to the Air and Space Operations Center (AOC) and to other C2 systems. Applications Development activities include but are not limited to the following: 1) Theater Battle Management Core System (TBMCS) Force Level (FL) program which delivers joint air battle planning, management and execution capabilities; 2) Command and Control Air Operations Suite (C2AOS) which develops, matures, fields and maintains next-generation net-centric C2 services and capabilities for air battle planning, execution and management functions; 3) Personnel Recovery Command and Control (PRC2) program which develops and delivers tools and services for planning and managing search and rescue efforts, and disseminating related information; and 4) Command and Control Information Services (C2IS) which creates web-enabled information services to expose air operations data using standardized schemas, such as those developed by the Air Operations Community of Interest (AO COI). The AO COI defines and develops air operations vocabulary and data models upon which net centric information services are built. Core activities include but are not limited to: 1) maintaining operational viability of the current Joint System of Record (TBMCS 1.1.3); 2) developing capabilities to support planning and replanning of the Air Battle Plan; generation and dissemination of the Air Tasking Order; air and space defensive planning and execution; targeting; weaponeering; personnel recovery tasks; other applications and services supporting C2 utilized in the joint environment and 3) providing support to and participating in the AO COI to improve air operations information interoperability among all joint and coalition systems within the AO domain; 4) developing and assessing C2 air, space, and cyber technologies that will improve joint and coalition warfighter interoperability, including participation in annual NATO Coalition Warrior Interoperability Demonstration (CWID) activities, and 5) transitioning existing C2 capabilities to a net-centric environment. Applications Development efforts include evaluation and maturation of future air, space, and cyber C2 concepts identified through research, risk reduction, prototyping, current operations, exercises and demonstrations. Activities also include studies and analysis to support both current program planning and execution and future program planning. 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, 2012
• Source ID: 675218_0207410F_7_3600_PB_2012

Tags

Readers

• Civilian Systems Systems Program Capability Development and Upgrade Support Activity Expense and Pay Management.
• Geospatial Intelligence and Artificial Intelligence Analytics

Technology Areas

• Cyber
• Fully Networked C3
• Fully Networked C3 - Command and Control
• Space