Air Force Command and Control Integration Center

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Air Force Command and Control Integration Center [1]
Active1997–2013
CountryFlag of the United States.svg  United States
BranchFlag of the United States Air Force.svg  United States Air Force
Role Command and Control integration
Decorations Air Force Organizational Excellence Award [2]
Insignia
Air Force Command and Control Integration Center emblem [note 1] Air Force C2 Integration Center.jpg
Global Cyberspace Integration Center emblem [note 2] [2] Air Force Global Cyberspace Integration Center.jpg
Air and Space Command and Control Agency emblem [note 3] Air and Space Command and Control Agency emblem.png

The Air Force Command and Control Integration Center was an Air Combat Command field operating agency responsible for innovating, designing, developing, integrating, and sustaining command and control capabilities. It was a tenant unit at Langley Air Force Base, with several outlying support locations. [3]

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The center was established in 1997 and inactivated in 2013. It had gone through numerous name and organizational changes, but maintained essentially the same mission throughout. From 2002 through 2010, it was aligned directly under the Air Staff.

History

The center was initially established at Langley Air Force Base, Virginia in August 1997 as the Air and Space Command and Control Agency. The agency included the two major field units that became the Air Force C2 Battlelab and the Air Force C2 Training and Innovation Group. The Tactical Air Forces Interoperability Group was a predecessor organization under Tactical Air Command. It was focused primarily on tactical interoperability and the improvement and integration of Tactical Data Links and message text formats.

The agency's name was changed to reflect its widening responsibilities. When Intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance was added to the agency's mission in September 1998, it was redesignated the 'Aerospace Command and Control Agency. A few months later, on 1 January 1999, the agency added responsibilities including unmanned aerial vehicles, and became the Aerospace Command and Control & Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Center. The Center eventually gained the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Battlelab, and fifteen operating locations intended to network the command and control mission. [1]

In 2002, the Center underwent its most profound change organizationally since its creation. On 15 March 2002 the Center was redesignated the Air Force Command and Control & Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Center and realigned as a field operating agency under the Air Force Deputy Chief of Staff for Warfighting Integration. . [1] In April 2007, the center was redesignated the Air Force Global Cyberspace Integration Center signifying an Air Force cultural shift to the cyberspace domain [1] while still maintaining its responsibilities for C2 integration. A little over three years later, on 16 June 2010, the center was realigned under the Air Combat Command (ACC) Directorate of Requirements and named the Air Force Command and Control Integration Center. [4]

In January 2013, the Commander of ACC announced his intention to reorganize the headquarters staff to formulate a consolidated planning, programming and requirements directorate. As part of this planned reorganization, the center would be inactivated and its functions and personnel merged into the new directorate. An informal closing ceremony was held on 16 December 2013.

Systems developed

Air Operations Center

The Aerospace Operation Center (later Air Operations Center, AOC) was an important mission for the center. The AOC was declared a weapon system on 8 September 2000. The first Combined Aerospace Operations Center-Experimental was built at Langley Air Force Base. The next CAOC created was established over the following year at Prince Sultan Air Base, Saudi Arabia. Leading the AOC effort through large-scale experiments, for seven years the Center modernized, standardized, and integrated the developing command and control system.

Joint Expeditionary Force Experiment

Starting in 1998 as the Air Force's [single service] expeditionary force experiment, this experimentation and testing venue allowed innovators and formal acquisition programs to try out new equipment, tactics, procedures in a large-scale field environment. The equipment tested included command, control and communications systems, vehicles, aircraft, software, radios, etc., focused on enhancing information collection and exchange, and improving interoperability. The venue quickly grew to include multiple services and nations. It was subsequently conducted biannually in 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008 with particular emphasis on command and control and improving the "Kill Chain". More recently, it was supposed to be downsized to focus on specific areas for improvement in Command and control integration and conducted on a smaller scale on a quarterly basis with occasional large-scale events.

Tactical Networks Integration

Tactical Data Links (TDL) and voice networks are essential to command and control and situational awareness of forces in the battlespace from the tactical edge to joint task forces. The center integrated these networks for the Air Force, other services, and other nations throughout its history including Link 11 and Link 16 improvements; TDL network management, integrators and gateways; Joint Tactical Radio System; and developments in Airborne Networking. [5]

Lineage

Activated on 1 August 1997
Redesignated Aerospace Command and Control Agency on 15 September 1998
Redesignated Aerospace Command and Control & Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Center on 9 February 1999
Redesignated Air Force Command and Control & Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Center on 15 March 2002
Redesignated Global Cyberspace Integration Center on 1 April 2008 [6]
Redesignated Air Force Command & Control Integration Center on 15 June 2010 [7]
Inactivated c. 16 December 2013[ citation needed ]

Assignments

Components

Stations

Commanders

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References

Notes

Explanatory notes
  1. ↑ Approved 15 September 2010.
  2. ↑ Approved 16 December 2008.
  3. ↑ Approved 15 October 1997.
  4. ↑ Preparing for the agency's activation, Air Combat Command organized the Air & Space Command & Control Agency (Provisional) at Langley Air Force Base on 9 May 1997. The provisional agency was discontinued on 1 August.
  5. ↑ This also changed the center's status to a field operating agency.
  6. ↑ This also terminated the center's status as a field operating agency.
Citations
  1. 1 2 3 4 "AFGCIC Library". Archived from the original on 12 June 2009. Retrieved 18 May 2009.
  2. 1 2 Kane, Robert B. (3 April 2009). "Factsheet Air Force Global Cyberspace Integration Center (USAF)". Air Force Historical Research Agency. Retrieved 17 May 2021.
  3. ↑ "AF Command & Control Integration Center - Home". Archived from the original on 17 November 2011. Retrieved 1 December 2011.
  4. ↑ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 February 2013. Retrieved 2 November 2016.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  5. ↑ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 February 2013. Retrieved 2 November 2016.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  6. 1 2 3 Lineage through March 2009 in Kane, Factsheet Global Cyberspace Integration Center.
  7. 1 2 Research Division, Air Force Historical Research Agency, Air Force Organization Change Status Report, June 2010, Maxwell AFB, AL
  8. ↑ No byline (April 1999). "Biography, Maj Gen John W. Hawley". Air Force Public Affairs. Retrieved 16 May 2021.
  9. ↑ No byline (May 2002). "Biography, Maj Gen Gerald F. Perryman". Air Force Public Affairs. Retrieved 16 May 2021.
  10. ↑ No byline (October 2002). "Biography, Maj Gen Robert F. Behler". Air Force Public Affairs. Retrieved 16 May 2021.
  11. ↑ No byline (June 2006). "Biography, Maj Gen Tommy F. Crawford". Air Force Public Affairs. Retrieved 16 May 2021.
  12. ↑ No byline (July 2009). "Biography, Maj Gen Kevin J. Kennedy". Air Force Public Affairs. Retrieved 16 May 2021.
  13. ↑ No byline (December 2008). "Biography, Brig Gen Mike H. McClendon". Air Force Public Affairs. Retrieved 16 May 2021.
  14. ↑ No byline (February 2013). "Biography, Stan C. Newberry". Air Force Public Affairs. Retrieved 16 May 2021.

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