Northrop Grumman, U.S. Air Force Complete Successful Preliminary Design Review of Air Operations Center Modernization Program
14 Février 2013 - 5:00PM
The U.S. Air Force and Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) have
successfully completed the preliminary design review for the Air
Operations Center (AOC) Weapon System (WS) program. The successful
review allows the AOC WS program to enter the detailed design
phase.
The program modernizes the Air Force's essential
operational-level command and control (C2) centers to increase
operational effectiveness and reduce costs. The Defense Department
considers these C2 centers a weapon system vital to the national
interest and the AOC modernization program represents a major leap
in aerospace C2.
The in-depth review, conducted at Northrop Grumman's AOC WS
warfighter test and integration laboratory in Newport News, Va.,
served as a forum for the Air Force, Northrop Grumman and its
teammates to review and approve the preliminary design.
Additionally, Northrop Grumman delivered a prototype system built
upon a service-oriented open architecture to highlight the future
AOC environment and demonstrate the concept of rapid and affordable
development and integration.
"Our collaboration with the Air Force accomplished an important
risk-reduction activity and verified our ability to quickly and
affordably deliver critical capabilities to warfighters. We also
showcased the architectural foundation that will enable essential
new C2 applications and warfighting concepts unachievable with
closed systems," said Mike Twyman, vice president and general
manager of the Defense Systems division for Northrop Grumman
Information Systems. "AOC modernization through a truly open
systems approach will significantly reduce life cycle costs and
enable the Air Force's future operational concepts."
Northrop Grumman demonstrated the potential for integrated air
and missile defense, dynamic network management and dynamic
planning utilizing the enormous capabilities of fifth-generation
aircraft and sensors. The company showed next-generation user
experience featuring machine-to-machine automation, collaborative
workflows and enhanced visualization of mission-critical
information to generate speed of command not possible with legacy
systems. The increase in combat capability was demonstrated in the
dynamic targeting process, one of several AOC mission threads used
during the design effort.
"Effective air, space and cyberspace operations depend on
integrated effects across the joint force. The key is command and
control, and the modernized AOC provides warfighters with the
secure, flexible and agile C2 capabilities necessary for meeting
the security challenges of the future," Twyman said.
In conjunction with the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center,
Hanscom Air Force Base, Mass., Northrop Grumman will modernize the
AOC by developing a secure, streamlined computing environment for
legacy and stove-piped systems. The common computing environment
will reduce manual information sharing between systems and decrease
information technology footprint thereby lowering total ownership
costs. AOC modernization will also accelerate the integration of
new applications and enable flexibility to deliver modular,
mission-tailorable capabilities to warfighters.
The AOC gives the Air Force an enhanced operational-level
command and control capability for use in every operational
theater. It provides the Joint Force Air Component commander with
the core capability to plan, task and execute theaterwide
operations in the air, space and cyber domains.
Northrop Grumman is a leading global security company providing
innovative systems, products and solutions in unmanned systems,
cybersecurity, C4ISR, and logistics and modernization to government
and commercial customers worldwide. Please visit
www.northropgrumman.com for more information.
CONTACT: Sudi Bruni
858-592-3407 (office)
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sudi.bruni@ngc.com
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