Air Force Command and Control Integration Center

Air Force Global Cyberspace Integration Center
Active	1 August 1997 - Present
Country	United States
Branch	United States Air Force
Role	Command and Control
Garrison/HQ	Langley Air Force Base
Commanders
Current commander	Stan Newberry

The Air Force Global Cyberspace Integration Center (AF GCIC) is an Air Force Field Operating Agency. It is responsible to the Secretary of the Air Force, Chief of Warfighting Integration and Chief Information Officer for developing, integrating, and sustaining command on control solutions.

Organization

The AFGCIC consists five directorates and five operating locations designed to design, develop, sustain, and intergrate command and contol systems and processes.

History

The center was initially established as the Air and Space Command and Control Agency (ASC2A) on 1 August 1997. The agency included the two major field units that became the Air Force C2 Battlelab and the Air Force C2 Training and Innovation Group. Intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) to the agency's mission and it was re-designated the Aerospace Command and Control Agency (AC2A) on 15 September 1998. A few months later, on 1 January 1999, the AC2A again expanded its mission, taking on such unmanned aerial platforms, and was officially re-designated the Aerospace Command and Control & Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Center (AC2ISRC). The Center gained the Air Force Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Battlelab, and fifteen operating locations intended to network the C2 mission.

The Aerospace Operation Center (AOC) was a central mission for the center. Tremendous efforts led the AOC was declared a weapon system on 8 September 2000. The first Combined Aerospace Operations Center-Experimental (CAOC-X) was built at Langley Air Force Base. The next CAOC built stood up over the following year at Prince Sultan Air Base, Saudi Arabia, and became the "premier C2 weapon system in the world." In 2002, the Center underwent its most profound change organizationally since its creation. On 15 March 2002 the Center was re-designated the Air Force Command and Control & Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Center (AFC2ISRC) and realigned as a field operating agency under the Deputy Chief of Staff for Warfighting Integration (AF/XI).

Leading the AOC innovation effort through large-scale experiments that rapidly delivered capabilities onto the battlefield the AFC2ISRC efforts collectively marked a seven-year period of modernizing, standardization, and seamless integration. On 2 April 2007, the AFC2ISRC was re-designated the Air Force Global Cyberspace Integration Center (AF GCIC) signifying an Air Force cultural shift to the cyberspace domain.

External links

• Air Force Global Cyberspace Integration Center Fact Sheet