URE 4 Flashcards
*AFPD 10-4, Operations Planning: Air and Space Expeditionary Force (AEF) aligns what requirements w/ a matching force generation model?
Tempo bands
Which organization is responsible for AEF sourcing of individual augmentees, Joint Manning Document authorizations, and managing replacements for 365-day or greater requirements?
Air Force Personnel Center (AFPC)
What places AEF forces in a “ready to deploy” state and supports global requirements, home station requirements or support to Combatant Commanders (CCDRs)?
Posturing
Who has the primary mission of providing the Joint Force Air Component Commander (JFACC) w/ the tools necessary to fight and win a major theater war w/in the scope and coordination of all land, sea, and air forces?
Air and Space Operations Center
*Which document is the basic building block used in joint force planning and deployments of AEFs?
Unit type codes (UTCs)
*Which function is a state-of-the-art ground-to-ground communications infrastructure designed to exchange secure and non-secure voice, data, and video communications by way of line-of-sight (LOS), satellite, or hard-wired resources?
Theater deployable communications (TDCs)
Defense Support of Civil Authorities (DSCA), Humanitarian Relief Operations (HUMRO), Non-Combatant Evacuation Operations (NEO) and support to International Law Enforcement are all examples of
Operational capabilities packages (OCPs)
*A remotely piloted or self-piloted aircraft that can carry cameras, sensors, communications equipment, or other payloads is called a/an
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs)
As of September 2004, how many total flight hours have coalition unmanned aircraft flown to support Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) and Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF)?
100,000
Which system focuses on providing exploitable digital imagery to the warfighter in near real-time?
High Altitude Endurance (HAE)
Which TDC equipment characteristic requires equipment modules to be expandable and packaged for deployment in standard 19-inch rack mounted transit cases, vehicles, or shelterized configurations?
Modularity-scalability
Which TDC equipment characteristic requires size, weight, power requirements, and equipment set-up times are kept to an absolute minimum to support the transportation, deployment, and operations in a deployed environment?
Mobility
Which component of TDCs is a suite of modules and accessory kits serving as the backbone of a deployed communication network?
Integrated communications access package (ICAP)
Which system provides the capability to ID, sequence, and separate aircraft; provide final approach guidance, and control instructions to aircraft at deployed locations in all types of weather?
Deployable Air Traffic-Control and Landing Systems (DATCALS)
Which system asset can be tasked to provide liaison, control tower, Radar Approach Control (RAPCON), precision landing, and mobile Tactical Air Navigation (TACAN) services as a standalone unit or in any combination?
DATCALS
What MAJCOM is the 85th Engineering and Installation Squadron (EIS) assigned to?
Air Combat Command (ACC)
Under what program does the DoD collect, process, produce, disseminate, and use information?
Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (C4ISR)
What system provides connectivity between the US and allied forces for critical missions and enhances worldwide readiness, mobility, responsiveness, and operations?
GIG
*Which system is employed at more than 600 sites across the GIG and interconnected through the SIPRNET?
Global Command and Control System (GCCS)
*Which major system employs the Joint Operation Planning and Execution System (JOPES), Global Status of Resources and Training System (GSORTS), Deliberate Crisis Action Planning and Execution Segments (DCAPES), and Common Operational Picture (COP) systems?
Global Command and Control System (GCCS-AF)
*Which system primarily deals w/ logistics planning data, such as transportation, personnel, and material requirements?
Global Combat Support System (GCSS)
Which system of interconnected computer networks is used by the Department of Defense and Department of State?
Joint Worldwide Intelligence Communications System (JWICS)
Which Air Force specific system uses the GIG backbone for inter-site communications and was designed to provide an automated and integrated planning and execution capability to the Combat Air Forces (CAF) and Joint/Combined Forces?
JWICS
Which system provides a solution to a decrease in manpower and increase in requirements, at the same time, taking advantage of new technological developments to deliver superior connectivity, flexibility, speed, reliability, and joint interoperability?
Theater Battle Management Core System (TBMCS)
*Which C2 structure is a priority component of the GIG designed to support the President, SECDEF, and the JCS in the exercise of their responsibilities?
National Military Command System (NMCS)
Which C2 structure is a primary network used to transmit the emergency action messages (EAM) generated by the National Military Command Center (NMCC) to the war fighting commanders in the field?
Strategic Automated Command and Control System (SACCS)
*Which C2 structure has network node whose survivability is achieved using nuclear hardened equipment, redundant circuits, and alternate communications paths?
SACCS
Which system was originally designed as a specialized system for Army, Navy, and Air Force technicians to use as a tool to troubleshoot network problems?
SEAMARK
*Which program was created in response to the FY 97-03 Defense Planning Guidance that directed a “program to migrate to a multi-intelligence, common, interoperable, open systems ground systems architecture?”
Distributed Common Ground Station (DCGS)
Which systems basic functions operational elements are tasking, processing, exploitation, and dissemination (TPED)?
DCGS
*Which system is a radar tracker and correlator software program that is hosted on a powerful server based computer system, which takes inputs from long and short range radars and displays it all on a scope (computer monitor)?
Base Control System-Fixed (BCS-F)
Which system capitalizes on the popular commercial direct broadcast satellite technology to provide critical information to the nation’s warfighters?
Global Broadcast Service (GBS)
Which system is a service that broadcasts via communications payloads on military satellites (Ka band) and commercial satellites (Ku band)?
Global Broadcast Service (GBS)
Which system is a USAF program supporting Global, Defense Communications System (DCS) HF Entry, Mystic Star, and System of Inter-American Telecommunications for the Air Forces (SITFAA) missions?
High Frequency-Global Communications System (HF-GCS)
Which system provides high-quality voice/data HF and ultra-high frequency (UHF) satellite communications to the president, vice president, cabinet members, and other senior government and military officials while aboard special airlift mission (SAM) aircraft?
Mystic Star
*Which system provides the ability to rapidly detect airborne targets w/ minimal or no support?
Ground Theater Air Control (GTACS)
Which system can be deployed in either the Control Reporting Center or Control Reporting Element configurations?
GTACS
*What function provides the DoD w/ the capability to reach hundreds of thousands of people via PCs, PDAs, land and cell phones, pagers, Blackberry devices, and/or giant voice systems in real-time?
AtHoc’s solutions
*Which function has the primary purpose of providing standard force package descriptions of the force packages to be used to support contingency planning at all levels of command?
Manpower and equipment force packaging (MEFPAK)
