Defense Acquisitions: Status of Strategic C4 System Modernization and Plans To Integrate Additional Mission Capabilities

摘要

Your letter of October 18, 1999, referred to the Department of Defense's (DOD) plans to modernize its current strategic command, control, communications, and computer (C4) capabilities for ballistic missile warning, space control, and air sovereignty/defense missions. Your letter mentioned that command and control functions for national missile defense may be centralized with these missions and that the U.S. Space Command has been assigned new missions called computer network defense/attack. You expressed concern about how DOD plans to integrate the systems needed for new missions into the systems used for current missions. As agreed, this report provides information on DOD's plans to (1) modernize current strategic C4 capabilities and (2) integrate additional system capabilities for newly planned and assigned missions.