Defense Acquisitions: Status of Strategic C4 System Modernization and Plans To Integrate Additional Mission Capabilities

Abstract

Your letter of October 18, 1999, referred to the Department of Defense's (DOD) plans to modernize its current strategic command, control, communications, and computer (C4) capabilities for ballistic missile warning, space control, and air sovereignty/defense missions. Your letter mentioned that command and control functions for national missile defense may be centralized with these missions and that the U.S. Space Command has been assigned new missions called computer network defense/attack. You expressed concern about how DOD plans to integrate the systems needed for new missions into the systems used for current missions. As agreed, this report provides information on DOD's plans to (1) modernize current strategic C4 capabilities and (2) integrate additional system capabilities for newly planned and assigned missions.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 25, 2000
Accession Number
ADA381426

Entities

Organizations

  • United States Government Accountability Office

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Cyber
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Air Force
  • Ballistic Missiles
  • Command And Control
  • Command And Control Systems
  • Command Control Communications And Computer Systems
  • Computer Networks
  • Computers
  • Defense Systems
  • Department Of Defense
  • Military Acquisition
  • Organizational Structure
  • Systems Engineering
  • Task Forces
  • Unified Combatant Commands
  • United States
  • United States Strategic Command

Readers

  • Aerospace Engineering.
  • Defense Acquisition Program Management
  • Joint Military Operations and Doctrine.

Technology Areas

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