Ready, set. - modernize: U.S. Air Force ops center upgrades eliminate sneakernet

摘要

To coordinate air coverage during wars or disaster-relief operations, the U.S. Air Force relies on command centers staffed in some cases by hundreds of analysts, operators and commanders. Computer applications that deliver weather forecasts, target coordinates, surface-to-air missile sites and a host of other critical information have been added gradually over the last two decades. Today, each Air and Space Operations Center, or AOC, contains a hodgepodge of computers of various brands whose software can date to the 1990s. There are 40 or so applications in a typical AOC, and some are so walled off from each other that operators have to print out data displayed on one console and re-key the data into others.