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Command and Control ... Total FlexibilityPublished Aug. 21, 2013
            **COMMAND AND CONTROL ... TOTAL FLEXIBILITY**Airmen employ the Air Force’s other four interdependent
and enduring core missions through robust, adaptable,
and survivable command and control systems. Using
the specialized skills of over 53,000 command and
control Airmen, the Air Force provides access to reliable
communications and information networks so that the
joint team can operate globally at a high tempo and level
of intensity. Air Force command and control systems give
commanders the ability to conduct highly coordinated
joint operations on an unequaled scale using centralized
command, distributed control, and decentralized
execution.

Pervasive and highly interconnected, command and
control networks will be extremely contested. The
capability to deliver airpower is intimately dependent on
the ability to operate effectively in cyberspace, a domain
in and through which we conduct all of our core missions
and which is critical to many of our command and control
systems. Operations in cyberspace can magnify military
effects by increasing the efficiency and effectiveness
of air and space operations and by helping to integrate
capabilities across all domains. The use of cyberspace
to conduct missions is certainly not exclusive to the Air
Force; however, it is an essential component of how we
bring innovative, globally focused “airmindedness” to
ensure our warfighting advantage.

Getting the right information to the right person at the
right time is essential to the American way of war. The
Nation’s advantage in command and control is under
constant attack with new and more capable threats
emerging daily in the areas of cyber weapons, anti-satellite systems, and electromagnetic jamming. Our adversaries
are also making advances by electronically linking their
own combat capabilities, which creates new military challenges that our forces must be prepared to address. To counter these
challenges, the Air Force will field advanced command and control systems that are reliable, resilient, and interoperable.
More importantly, we will recruit and train innovative Airmen with the expertise to build, manage, secure, and advance our
complex and diverse command and control systems, while at the same time making them easy to use for our own forces.


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