(U) A6CI ADI BBP (2025) (Final)_Redacted.pdf

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BACKGROUND BULLET PAPER

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AIR DEFENSE INFRASTRUCTURE (ADI)

PURPOSE

The ADI is an enterprise system of sub-systems maintained by General Dynamic Information

Technology under the Air Defense Communications Services (ADCS) contract.

BACKGROUND

- The ADI delivers the “Eyes”, “Ears”, and “Voice” to the Air Defense Warfighter

- The support contract for the ADI is in Option Year 2 of its fourth iteration with two remaining one-year options available.

-- A6CI is currently preparing for ADCS5 solicitation since the ADCS4 contract ends 31 Mar

2027 should both additional option years are executed.

DISCUSSION

- The ADI interconnects all the Air Defense Sectors and perimeter/interior sites (see Figure 1)

-- ADI-Mission Voice Platform (ADI-MVP) Layer 3 Virtual Private Network (L3VPN) services all inter-site mission traffic via 2 x DISA provided L3VPN Multiprotocol Label

Switching (MPLS) 100M dedicated circuits (primary / failover)

-- ADI-Security Suite of Tools (ADI-SSoT) L3VPN services all inter-site cybersecurity traffic via 1 x DISA provided L3VPN MPLS 100M circuit and potential future Cyber

Security Service Provider integration

-- Radio/Radar Transport System

--- Interface equipment at Eastern Air Defense Sector (EADS) and Western Air Defense

Sector (WADS), 101 interior radio sites, and 48 CONUS perimeter radar/radios sites

--- Federal Aviation Agency (FAA) / FAA Telecommunications Infrastructure (FTI) provisioned circuits – interior sites

--- DISA provisioned circuits – perimeter sites

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-- Scramble Alert Systems - Used by the EADS and WADS to scramble fighters at 16 Air

Control Alert CONUS sites (64 end point packages)

- CONR-1 AF (AFNORTH & AFSPACE) (C1AA) plays a vital role in the Homeland Defense mission, relying on a robust and resilient ADI to deliver key capabilities

-- Secure Voice Communications

--- The ADI-MVP primary voice systems to ensure secure and reliable voice communications for critical air defense operations

--- ADI-MVP enables CONUS ADS to access FAA radio sites across the lower 48 states delivering C2 for situational awareness and coordination capabilities

-- Robust Cybersecurity

--- The ADI-SSoT delivers comprehensive cybersecurity across the ADI and alignment to

DAFI 17-130 Cybersecurity Program Management and provides continuous monitoring IAW Risk Management Framework Step 6

--- Provides the Air Operations Center and the Battle Control Centers with

---- Boundary Protection

---- Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting

---- Configuration Management

---- Vulnerability Management

-- Detailed Event Reconstruction

--- The ADI-CONR Forensic (ADI-CFS) system provides detailed event recreation and analysis capabilities, compliant with NORAD/NORTHCOM Instruction 10-175

Debrief, Data Collection and Event Reconstruction and the 9/11 Commission Report recommendations.

--- The forensic requirement is currently being reviewed and revalidated by 1AF / A5/8C to extract this subsystem from the ADCS contract

-- Mobile Low-Altitude Radar Coverage

--- The Low Altitude Radio Kit (LARK) delivers mobile low-altitude radio coverage to support Rotary Wing Air Intercept of low-flying threats during President/Vice

President travel, National Special Security Events, Human Space Launch Mission, runway relocations, and other contingencies

--- The LARK only requires power and site-provide dial-tone to be operational