United States Air Force And IT

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The Air Force has a communications and information team seeking to make the Air Force better while enabling everyone to do their jobs better, faster, cheaper, and smoother through the smart use of information technology. This, Air Force Information Technology Management Strategic Plan, establishes the fundamental vision, goals, and strategies for being world class acquirers, users, and managers of information and information technology. The United States Air Force seeks to make information technology professionals the best in the world at applying information technology to the mission and business processes of the Air Force. Discussed will be the Air Force infrastructure, challenges with technology attacks and the internet.

The Department of Defense (DoD) infrastructure, alone, consists of over 2.1 million computers, 10,000 local area networks, and 1000 long distance networks. Over 95% of the Defense Department systems utilize public communications networks available to the general public. These networks are classified as the global, national, and defense information infrastructures (GII, NII, and DII). They all use interconnected transport medium linked to public switches that route data between geographically separated systems. This includes the Department of Defense classified systems that operate on the Secret Internet Protocol Routing Network or SIPRNET. The Department of Defense also critically depends on information technology to help design weapons, identify and track enemy targets, pay soldiers, mobilize reservists, and manage supplies. Basically to command, control, protect, pay, supply, and inform the force. As dependence on increasingly interconnected information systems grows, so does the Department of Defense vulnerability. To meet these new challenges, the information technology community in the Air Force is reshaping its focus. That focus consists of the following operating philosophy:
• Make Air Force mis...