Headquarters Air Combat Command AFA Airpower Symposium AOC Pathfinder Col Alan Dayton HQ ACC/A5C This Briefing is: UNCLASSIFIED
What is an Air Operations Center? An Air Force unit and a weapon system (AN/USQ-163) employed by the Commander of Air Force Forces to exercise control of Air Force forces, or form the core of a joint (or combined) AOC and be employed by the Joint Force Air Component Commander to exercise control of joint (or combined) air forces. Pre-AOC (Undated) Prince Sultan AB (circa 2001) 609 AOC (2017) 2
Software is a weapon of war Current systems must rapidly evolve to confront our adversaries & new systems must be introduced in months not decades
AOC Enterprise 11 AF (AFNORTH, ANR) 611 AOC 8 AF (AFGSC/AFSTRAT) 608 AOC 3 AF (AFEUR, AFAFRICA) 603 AOC GEOGRAPHIC GLOBAL 14 AF (AFSPACE/ AFSTRAT) 614 AOC 505 CCW 18 AF (AFTRANS) 618 AOC OSC/HD & CAOC-X SUPPORT 12 AF (AFSOUTH) 612 AOC 13 AF (AFPAC) 613 AOC 505 CCW & 46 TES 24 AF (AFCYBER/AFSTRAT) 624 OC 1 AF (AFNORTH) 601 AOC AFSOC OC AFCENT 609 AOC 7 AF (AFKOR) 607 AOC Air Operations Centers (AOC) 7 Geographic 5 Globals AOC Support Ops Support Ctr (OSC) / Help Desk (HD) Formal Training Unit (FTU) Combined AOC Experimental (CAOC-X) 46 TES (Eglin AFB, FL) 505 CCW Air Reserve Component (ARC) Units 514 AMOS McGuire AFB, NJ (AFRES) 349 AMOS Travis AFB, CA (AFRES) 102 AOG Otis MA (ANG) 110 AOG Battle Creek ANGB MI (ANG) 193 AOG State College PA (ANG) 152 AOG Hancock Field NY (ANG) 157 AOG Jefferson Barracks MO (ANG) 701 COS March ARB CA (AFRES) 710 COS Langley AFB VA (AFRES) 110 AOG Battle Creek ANGB MI (ANG) 186 AOG Meridian MS 183 AOG Springfield IL (ANG) 9 SOPS Vandenberg AFB CA (AFRES) 854 COS Lackland AFB TX 919 AOS Hurlburt FL (AFRES) 201 AOG Honolulu HI (ANG) 101 AOG Tyndall AFB FL (ANG) 713 COS Beale AFB CA (AFRES) Active Mobility Units 321 AMOS Travis AFB CA 621 AMOS McGuire AFB NJ 4
Still focused on 10.1 Executing today from Langley AFB and still delivering new capabilities to the warfighter Air Force Life Cycle Management Center, ACC/A5C (CAOC-X), ACC/A3C, and Detachment 4 maintaining and modifying current capabilities Long Term Modification and Sustainment contract is executing Completing major upgrade (10.1.13) to last four sites in enterprise Preparing for development test of next major upgrade (10.1.15) Det 4 Operations Support Center continues expanding data back-up and continuity of operations support to the enterprise Det 4 Tier 1 Help Desk supporting the AOC enterprise 5
What happened to 10.2 AOC WS 10.2 defined as a single increment to address AOC Capability Development Document, Key Performance Parameters and Key System Attributes Addresses Cyber security Reused relevant 10.1 capabilities (COTS/GOTS) Integrated 3 rd party mission applications and services Funding exhausted in April 2017 & Above Threshold Reprogramming not approved by Congress Contract terminated Program cancelled by Milestone Decision Authority in January Result: AOC Pathfinder
Delivery needed to change High Risk Legacy Waterfall AOC WS Medium Low Program Risk Creates high risk: delivers entire capability development document based on original requirements and limited operator involvement Time Agile Development: Continuous Feedback, Integration, and Delivery Risk Design AOC WS High Medium Low Risk mitigated: develops capability in 1-2 week chunks, adjusts based on continuous operator feedback Work is validated Time 7
Where we are headed Problem: Traditional software development and acquisitions cannot keep pace with changes in ops or advances in technology. Commanders desire rapid development of new capabilities for the current fight and to outpace near-peer competitors. Root Cause: DoD decision support systems (PPBE, JCIDS & DAS) and culture are flawed for software AOC Pathfinder ACC, AFLCMC, Defense Digital Service (DDS), and Defense Innovation Unit Experimental (DIUx) partnership to prove these methods can get valuable software released faster, with higher quality, greater security, and reduced risk 8
Ongoing work in the field MARAUDER MAT Replacement Contingency Planning Worldwide Tanker Planning Tool Campaign Planning Crisis Action Planning RAVEN - Target Production Manager In Production MISREP Analysis Tool Assessment Battle Damage Assessment Tool Objectives, Effects, and Guidance Theater C2 Architecture Planner Target Production Manager Target Development In Development Planned for CY18 Joint Targeting Toolbox JIGSAW Tanker Planning Toolkit Deferred CHAINSAW DynamicTargeting Execution Planning and ForceExecution Dynamic Targeting Tool IAMD Planner RSTA Annex Planner C2AOS-C2IS ATO Productionand Dissemination MAAPCAS Planner Weaponeeringand Allocation Tanker Planning Toolkit 13
Project Kasino Fielding Enterprise Platform Ops Center (EPOC) Team to Ryan Center and On-premise Platform/Platform Ops Team at 607 AOC within 150 days (23 Jun 18) per 4-star request Enterprise Platform Ops Team is the lynchpin of scaling to AOC Enterprise After Kasino, will have ability to scale to other AOCs at 1-2 month cadence
Transition from 10.1 100% Operational Relevance 10.1 New Solution New Solution Time 11
AOC Platform Concept Region: 601 Region: 603 Amazon Web Services GovCloud - Unclassified Region: EPOC Region: 607 Cross Domain Services SIPR CX-K SIPRNET Region: 613 Region: 612 Region: 611 Region: 609 30
Scaling to the enterprise 35 30 25 Capability/Capacity 20 15 10 5 FY18 Goals - Grow capacity to 12 Dev Teams - Accredited CI/CD pipeline/platform - TBMCS and MAAPTK replacement MVPs - Deliver initial re-architected JTT MVP - Deliver to Kasino FY20 Goals - Grow capacity to 24 Dev Teams - Deliver cloud & modernized apps to entire AOC Enterprise - Sundown AOC 10.1 infrastructure FY19 Goals - Grow capacity to 18 Dev Teams - Deliver cloud & modernized apps to ½ AOC Enterprise - Complete TBMCS & MAAPTK replacement 0 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 Strategic Enablers/Focus Areas Progression is condition-driven, not time driven
Getting to Multi-Domain C2 Tomorrow: Pathfinder is modernizing the AOC enterprise, laying foundation on which MDC2 tools and technologies can land DevOPS PaaS/IaaS MVPs VADER MDC2 Features & lications TTPs C2 Professionals New Technologies & Processes OSC Phase III CONOPS Exercises Infrastructure Training Modernized JCIDS PPBE DAS for Agile Software Development SAF/AQ Agile DevOps Initiative 13XX ATO in a Day Automated Testing Hybrid Cloud Edge of Tomorrow: ShadowOC will experiment with innovative tools, technologies and concepts in support of Multi-Domain Operations Today AOC 10.1 Existing Platforms & Operators JCIDS PPBE DAS JMS C3MS 14
Wrap up Remain focused on getting AOC WS 10.1 gracefully across the finish line AOC Pathfinder is on a successful trajectory working to fail/succeed rapidly, foster innovation and culture/process change Initial focus on AFCENT; pivoting to Korea - future scales to modernize AOC Enterprise 15
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