The Operations Support Facility

<p>This paper examines whether the Operations Support Facility construct sustains or degrades the tenet of centralized control/decentralized execution given the anticipated Command and control environment over the next 20 years. The paper begins by describing today's Air Operation Center construct and its relationship to centralized control/decentralized execution in order to establish requirements any air-centric command and control system must meet. Next the analysis looks at near-term problems facing the force structure of the Air Operations Centers which underwrites the requirement for an Operations Support Facility construct. Then the analysis explores how a fully implemented Operations Support Facility construct would fare against anticipated future threats including space and cyber and what emerging command and control requirements these threats suggest relative to centralized control/decentralized execution. Lastly the Operations Support Facility construct is weighed against the derived requirements dictated by centralized control/decentralized execution for command and control. The Operations Support Facility is found to support the requirements it is measured against some risks are identified but it on balance is found a better solution than other alternatives considered.</p><p>This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore you will see the original copyright references library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world) and other notations in the work.</p><p>This work is in the public domain in the United States of America and possibly other nations. Within the United States you may freely copy and distribute this work as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.</p><p>As a reproduction of a historical artifact this work may contain missing or blurred pages poor pictures errant marks etc. Scholars believe and we concur that this work is important enough to be preserved reproduced and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.</p>