Air & Space Operations Center (AOC)

The Air & Space Operations Center (AOC) under the Air Force focuses on funding the Air Operations Center Weapon System (AOC WS), AN/USQ-163 Falconer, which serves as the senior element of the Theater Air Control System (TACS). The primary objective is to provide air, space, and cyber support to the Combined/Joint Forces Commander by coordinating, deconflicting, and assessing the progress of various weapon systems to advance the campaign. The program aims to develop operations strategy and planning documents, disseminate tasking orders, execute day-to-day peacetime and combat air, space, and cyber operations, and provide rapid reaction to immediate situations by exercising positive control of friendly forces. Additionally, the program supports continued software engineering capacity required for AOC WS Modifications to enable the transition from legacy systems to modernized capabilities and to remain interoperable with Combatant Commands.

The specific goals of this program include leveraging commercial best practices for agile software development, scaling a modern Infrastructure as a Service/Platform as a Service (IaaS/PaaS) solution to the AOC WS enterprise, implementing improved solutions for platform architecture and Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipeline, enabling objectives that support operational energy and security efficiencies, maintaining continuous Authority to Operate (ATO), and conducting software engineering solutions by leveraging agile engineering methodologies. The program also aims to optimize operational energy use and increase combat capability through operations software development while enabling development and scaling of an extensible cloud-based IaaS/PaaS hosting platform/enterprise architecture along with necessary services to support continuous software capability integration and delivery. These objectives align with the overarching Kessel Run portfolio and are dependent on the All Domain Common Platform (ADCP), which provides an extensible cloud-based IaaS/PaaS hosting platform built to deliver highly resilient mission applications and data to Airmen deployed around the world.