Budget Account
3600F - Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Air Force
Description
Command Control, Communication, and Computers (C4) under the STRATCOM budget aims to support the USSTRATCOM Nuclear Command, Control and Communications (NC3) Enterprise Center (NEC) in overseeing and monitoring the operations and security of the enterprise. The program focuses on developing tools to assist in monitoring the readiness of the NC3 architecture and capturing operational risks as adversaries develop the ability to disrupt capabilities from multiple threat vectors. It also funds systems engineering and assessment activities previously accomplished by DISA in support of the NC3 Enterprise. The program's objectives include capturing and integrating process and system data to assess operational risk, characterizing multi-domain threats, exploring operational trade space associated with next-generation NC3 architectures, and developing digital engineering capabilities to support governance responsibilities of NC3.
Additionally, the program supports the Mission Assurance Defense Critical Infrastructure Program (DCIP), which seeks to ensure the availability of networked assets critical to USSTRATCOM and other DoD missions. This includes managing the identification, prioritization, assessment, and assurance of critical infrastructure as well as developing adaptive plans and procedures to mitigate risk, restore capability in the event of loss or degradation, support incident management, and protect defense critical infrastructure. The program's planned programs include systems engineering analysis for mission systems and assets, research on critical infrastructure vulnerability assessments, and evaluation of mission risk through research, studies, analysis, and assessment of threats and hazards paired with exploitable vulnerabilities.
Overall, the program aims to develop innovative solutions in a virtual environment, capture metrics that identify system problems and readiness issues before they impact operations, improve visualization and simulation capabilities for rapid systems analysis capability for NC3 Enterprise Center and its mission partners, deliver cloud-based model simulation and engineering capability to allow for a shared data platform supporting deliverable requirements as defined by the NC3 Enterprise Center mission, conduct mission engineering analysis studies to support validation and engineering assessment for NC3 Enterprise performance gaps and required capabilities.