AF TENCAP

AF TENCAP is a part of the Air Force's Research, Development, Test & Evaluation (RDT&E) budget activity. The program aims to increase warfighter effectiveness by exploiting national capabilities and integrating them into military operations, training, and intelligence activities. AF TENCAP focuses on rapidly prototyping and demonstrating capabilities in air, space, cyber, national and global ISR, and Non-Traditional ISR (NTISR) for operational and tactical applications. The program's projects are designed to transition to warfighters or national intelligence agencies for operational use and further development within appropriate acquisition Programs of Record. AF TENCAP also influences the design and operation of current and future air, space, cyber, national and global ISR systems while providing situational awareness to warfighters and national intelligence agencies.

The specific objectives of AF TENCAP include increasing Air Domain Awareness and Command and Control, supporting Special Operations Forces and Advanced Capabilities, Space support, ISR and Combat Applications to meet Air Force and Joint Warfighter requirements. The program also focuses on developing new capabilities such as TALON CRESTONE 2.0 to increase counter-UAS operational flexibility and incorporating enhanced capabilities provided by TALON AVALANCHE. Additionally, AF TENCAP aims to incorporate multi-domain Maritime and Air blue force data into the THRESHER common operational picture through the TALON POWDERHORN project. Another objective is the development of distributed SAP mission planning through the TALON PHOENIX effort. These efforts are executed via existing contracts maintained by other agencies or through AF TENCAP contracts established with vendors responding to annual Broad Agency Announcements. The program utilizes an incremental acquisition strategy with a disciplined systems engineering approach to solve problems through a series of segments.