Cyberspace Capabilities Center

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Cyberspace Capabilities Center
HQ Cyberspace Capabilities Center Shield.jpg
Shield of the Cyberspace Capabilities Center
Active26 April 1943 – present
CountryUnited States
BranchUnited States Air Force
Part ofAir Combat Command[1]
BaseScott Air Force Base, Illinois
Commanders
Current
commander		Colonel Kevin J. Kirsch, Jr.[2]

The Cyberspace Capabilities Center (CCC), formerly known as the Air Force Network Integration Center and located at Scott Air Force Base, Illinois, is the United States Air Force's only organization for Air Force Network integration, cyber simulation, and network standards, architecture and engineering services.

The center, a field operating agency for Air Combat Command, is the focal point for integrating mission systems, business systems, commercial information technology products and other networks into the Air Force Network (AFNet). AFNIC's strategic-level network integration, architecture/standards, engineering and simulation services enable major commands, functional communities, and program offices to successfully and efficiently design, develop and deploy "networthy" capabilities for the Air Force.

History[]

AFNIC Personnel working with the Simulator Training Exercise (SIMTEX) range

On 15 November 1938 the Army Airways Communications System was established within the Directorate of Communications of the Office of the Chief of the Air Corps, as a staff branch. The organisation first became a unit, as opposed to a staff branch, with the creation of the Army Airways Communications System Wing and its assignment to the Flight Control Command when it was activated with the effective date of 26 April 1943.[3]

The organization became the:

  • Air Communications Service (13 March 1946)
  • Airways and Air Communications Service (11 September 1946)
  • Air Force Communications Service (1 July 1961)
  • Air Force Communications Command (15 November 1979)

In 2012 it was announced that AFNIC would be restructured, transferring some of its cyber mission to Air Force Space Command.[4] Current organize, train and equip staff functions within AFNIC, such as records, forms, publications, cyber training programs, cyber requirements support, plans, and maintenance policy, transferred to the AFSPC (CYSS), which stood up at Scott AFB.[5]

In July 2018, AFNIC was realigned under Air Combat Command as a field operating agency.[6]

Designations and Dates[]

  • 15 November 1938 – Army Airways Communications System [constituted as a non-unit][7]
  • 13 April 1943 -- Army Airways Communications System Wing (constituted; activated effective 26 April 1943)
  • 26 April 1944 -- Army Airways Communications System
  • 13 March 1946 -- Air Communications Service
  • 11 September 1946 -- Airways and Air Communications Service
  • 1 July 1961 -- Air Force Communications Service
  • 15 November 1979 -- Air Force Communications Command
  • 28 May 1993 -- Air Force Command, Control, Communications, and Computer Agency
  • 13 June 1996 -- Air Force Communications Agency (AFCA)
  • 15 July 2009 – Air Force Network Integration Center (AFNIC)[8]
  • 7 November 2019 – Headquarters Cyberspace Capabilities Center (CCC)[6][9]

References[]

  1. ^ "Air Force Network Integration Center (ACC)". Air Force Historical Research Agency.
  2. ^ "Leadership". www.cyberspacecapabilitiescenter.af.mil.
  3. ^ Miller, A Salute, 1990, p.2.
  4. ^ Lead cyberspace tasks headed to Space Command, 15 May 2012, Air Force Times
  5. ^ AFNIC cyberspace mission transfers to AF Space Command, 15 May 2012
  6. ^ a b "Air Force transfers cyber responsibility to ACC". Cyberspace Capabilities Center.
  7. ^ AFCA Lineage Archived 22 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine, accessed October 2009
  8. ^ AFCA's historic change to AFNIC Archived 27 August 2009 at the Wayback Machine, AFSPC Public Affairs, 15 July 2009
  9. ^ "ACC consolidates cyber support across enterprise". Cyberspace Capabilities Center.

Sources[]

Air Force Network Integration Center (ACC)

External links[]

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