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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 (military)|command and control]] capabilities.  It was a tenant unit at [[Langley Air Force Base]], with several outlying support locations.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.afc2ic.af.mil/ |title=AF Command & Control Integration Center - Home |accessdate=1 December 2011 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20111117002131/http://www.afc2ic.af.mil/ |archivedate=17 November 2011}}</ref>
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 (United States)|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, target acquisition, and reconnaissance|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 vehicle]]s, 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.<ref name="AFGCIC Library"/>
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. .<ref name="AFGCIC Library"/>  In April 2007, the center was redesignated the '''Air Force Global Cyberspace Integration Center''' signifying an Air Force cultural shift to the [[cyberspace]] domain<ref name="AFGCIC Library"/> 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'''.<ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.afc2ic.af.mil/shared/media/document/AFD-090728-083.pdf |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2 November 2016 |url-status=dead |archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20130216210503/http://www.afc2ic.af.mil/shared/media/document/AFD-090728-083.pdf |archivedate=16 February 2013 }}</ref>
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 [[Gateway (telecommunications)|gateways]]; [[Joint Tactical Radio System]]; and developments in [[Airborne Networking]].
<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.afc2ic.af.mil/shared/media/document/AFD-090728-083.pdf |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2 November 2016 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130216210503/http://www.afc2ic.af.mil/shared/media/document/AFD-090728-083.pdf |archivedate=16 February 2013 }}</ref>
==Lineage==
* Constituted as the '''Air and Space Command and Control Agency''' on 15 July 1997<ref group=note>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.</ref>
: 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<ref name=Lineage>Lineage through March 2009 in Kane, Factsheet Global Cyberspace Integration Center.</ref>
: Redesignated '''Air Force Command & Control Integration Center''' on 15 June 2010<ref name=AFOCSRjun2010>Research Division, Air Force Historical Research Agency, Air Force Organization Change Status Report, June 2010, Maxwell AFB, AL</ref>
: Inactivated c. 16 December 2013{{citation needed|date=May 2021}}
===Assignments===
* Air Combat Command, 1 August 1997
* United States Air Force, 30 April 2002<ref name=Lineage/><ref group=note>This also changed the center's status to a field operating agency.</ref>
* Air Combat Command, 15 June 2010<ref name=AFOCSRjun2010/> – c. 16 December 2013{{citation needed|date=May 2021}}<ref group=note>This also terminated the center's status as a field operating agency.</ref>
===Components===
* Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Battlelab: 1 March 1999 – April 2002
===Stations===
* Langley Air Force Base, Virginia, 1 August 1997<ref name=Lineage/> – c. 16 December 2013{{citation needed|date=May 2021}}
===Commanders===
* Maj Gen John W. Hawley, July 1997 – June 1999<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.af.mil/AboutUs/Biographies/Display/tabid/225/Article/106802/major-general-john-w-hawley.aspx |author=No byline|title=Biography, Maj Gen John W. Hawley|date=April 1999|publisher=Air Force Public Affairs|access-date=May 16, 2021}}</ref>
* Maj Gen Gerald F. Perryman, May 1999 – August 2001<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.af.mil/AboutUs/Biographies/Display/tabid/225/Article/105947/major-general-gerald-f-perryman-jr.aspx |author=No byline|title=Biography, Maj Gen Gerald F. Perryman|date=May 2002|publisher=Air Force Public Affairs|access-date=May 16, 2021}}</ref>
* Maj Gen [[Robert Behler|Robert F. Behler]], August 2001 – July 2003<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.af.mil/AboutUs/Biographies/Display/tabid/225/Article/107711/major-general-robert-f-behler.aspx |author=No byline|title=Biography, Maj Gen Robert F. Behler|date=October 2002|publisher=Air Force Public Affairs|access-date=May 16, 2021}}</ref>
* Maj Gen Tommy F. Crawford, July 2003 – June 2006<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.af.mil/AboutUs/Biographies/Display/tabid/225/Article/107364/major-general-tommy-f-crawford.aspx |author=No byline|title=Biography, Maj Gen Tommy F. Crawford|date=June 2006|publisher=Air Force Public Affairs|access-date=May 16, 2021}}</ref>
* Maj Gen Kevin J. Kennedy, June 2006 – July 2007<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.af.mil/AboutUs/Biographies/Display/tabid/225/Article/104805/major-general-kevin-j-kennedy.aspx |author=No byline|title=Biography, Maj Gen Kevin J. Kennedy|date=July 2009|publisher=Air Force Public Affairs|access-date=May 16, 2021}}</ref>
* Brig Gen Mike H. McClendon, July 2007 – January 2008<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.af.mil/AboutUs/Biographies/Display/tabid/225/Article/108185/brigadier-general-mike-h-mcclendon.aspx |author=No byline|title=Biography, Brig Gen Mike H. McClendon|date=December 2008|publisher=Air Force Public Affairs|access-date=May 16, 2021}}</ref>
* Stan C. Newberry (Director), January 2008 – 2013<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.af.mil/AboutUs/Biographies/Display/tabid/225/Article/107935/stan-c-newberry.aspx |author=No byline|title=Biography, Stan C. Newberry|date=February 2013|publisher=Air Force Public Affairs|access-date=May 16, 2021}}</ref>
==See also==
* [[Joint Interoperability of Tactical Command and Control Systems]]
* [[Network-centric warfare]]
* [[Vocabulary OneSource]]
==References==
===Notes===
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===Bibliography===
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==External links==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20111117002131/http://www.afc2ic.af.mil/ Official Website of Air Force Command and Control Integration Center]
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