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On 1 August 1997, the Air and Space Command and Control Agency (ASC2A) was activated at Langley AFB (LAFB), Virginia, and assigned as a direct reporting unit to Air Combat Command. The agency included the two major field units that would become the Air Force C2 Battlelab and the Air Force C2 Training and Innovation Group. Planning soon proceeded to add intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) to the agency's mission responsibility. To prepare for that addition, the ASC2A was officially redesignated the Aerospace Command and Control Agency (AC2A) on 15 September 1998.
A few months later, on 1 January 1999, the AC2A assumed its expanded mission, taking on such platforms as Predator and Global Hawk, and was officially redesignated the Aerospace Command and Control & Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Center (AC2ISRC). The Center gained another major field unit, the Air Force Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Battlelab, plus fifteen operating locations or "liaisons," dispersed among government and military locations for networking the C2 mission.
At the heart of the mission was the Aerospace Operation Center (AOC), and with tremendous Center efforts the AOC was declared a weapon system on 8 September 2000. Days later, on 18 September, the Center's site for building the future AOC was also declared operational. This location at LAFB was designated as the Combined Aerospace Operations Center-Experimental (CAOC-X). The next CAOC built stood up over the following year at Prince Sultan Air Base (PSAB), Saudi Arabia, and became the "premier C2 weapon system in the world."
In 2002, the Center underwent its most profound change organizationally since its creation. Air Force-wide transformation, begun by the service's top leaders in late 2001, included the standup of a new Deputy Chief of Staff for Warfighting Integration (AF/XI). To support the action, on 15 March 2002 the Center was redesignated the Air Force Command and Control & Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Center (AFC2ISRC) and soon realigned as a field operating agency under AF/XI.
Leading the herculean workload to create the AOC of the future and gaining ground in the joint arena through large-scale experiments that rapidly delivered capabilities onto the battlefield were major AFC2ISRC efforts that collectively marked an astonishing seven-year stride to "modernize, standardize, and seamlessly integrate."
On April 2, 2007, the evolution of the AFC2ISRC continued when it was renamed the Air Force Global Cyberspace Integration Center (AF GCIC). The name change signified a sweeping cultural shift throughout the Air Force following the identification of a new domain of operations - Cyberspace.
During our history as the Air Force Command and Control & Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Center (AFC2ISRC), we carried the torch for and successfully met the U.S. Air Force chief of staff's mandate to integrate and standardize legacy and emerging C2 and ISR technologies.
The Global Cyberspace Integration Center (GCIC) continues that work, now leading C2 innovation, integration, and standardization of current and future C2 systems and sub-systems across air, space, and cyberspace to enable decision superiority-- the cornerstone of winning today's and future wars.
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