Assuring the USAF Core Missions in the Information Age

Abstract

The United States Air Force was unquestionably the worlds premier and most powerful air force in the industrial age. Our challenge and opportunity are to translate that effectiveness and capability to defend our nation into the information age. To accomplish this, we must be able to execute our five core missions of air and space superiority; intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR); rapid global mobility; global strike; and command and control in and through cyberspace. While our environment has changed continuously and rapidly throughout history, these enduring missions have remained our focus. We have always had to protect and defend our capability to accomplish these missions; what has changed is our necessity to protect and assure them via the information-age domain of cyberspace.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 2016
Accession Number
AD1024305

Entities

People

  • Willaim J. Bender
  • William D. Bryant

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Cyber
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Conditioning
  • Air Force
  • Command And Control
  • Communication Systems
  • Computers
  • Computing Devices
  • Cyberspace
  • Department Of Defense
  • Education
  • Electronic Mail
  • Environment
  • Information Security
  • Internet
  • Military Personnel
  • Operating Systems
  • Students
  • Task Forces

Readers

  • Aerospace logistics and air mobility.
  • Irregular Warfare and Special Operations Cyberspace Operations against Adversarial Threats.
  • Strategic Security Studies

Technology Areas

  • Cyber
  • Fully Networked C3
  • Space