AFIC WORKING GROUP INFORMATION

Agile Combat Support (ACS)

Air Mobility (AM)

 ACS capabilities include the provision of airfield services, civil engineering and logistics. Combat support is essential to the delivery of other AFIC warfighting functions and may also support the capabilities of collocated elements from sea or land forces or other agencies.

 This AM capability generally includes airlift, air-to-air refuelling, aerial delivery, and aeromedical evacuation, special operations support, and covers the movement from receipt to delivery.

Aerospace Medicine (ASM)

AirWorthiness (AW)

 ASM is the military applications of support of both manned and unmanned aircraft operations. This includes the aeromedical requirements for aviation personnel of all armed services, the medical risks for air passengers, the standards for aeromedical evacuation (AE), and the ergonomics and human factors applicable to health, fitness and safety in the air and space environments.

MAAs are responsible to their governments, employees, contractors, passengers and the general public for the safety and airworthiness of aircraft, and aircraft support under their control. MAAs prescribe and enforce standards, regulations, and procedures for the design, construction, maintenance and operation of aircraft, remotely piloted aircraft and aeronautical products in order to achieve an acceptable level of assurance of airworthiness and safety of aircraft and related support systems.

Fuels, Lubricants & Gases (FLG)

Counter Unmanned Arial Systems (C-UAS)

 The provision of aviation fuels, lubricants and gases is a fundamental and integrated set of activities that applies to all phases of all operations across the spectrum of conflict. It is threat-driven, vulnerability-dependent and is usually supported by formal risk assessment. The Quality Control/Quality Assurance (QC/QA) of fuels and flight critical fluids ensures safety of flight to the warfighter and mission readiness. Through the use of standards and practices provide the highest quality fuels, packaged products, and gases to the fight.

 Replaced the Force protection WG, specifically exploring and developing interoperability opportunities in the C-UAS arena.

Combined Joint All Domain Command & Control (CJADC2)

Operational Training Infrastructure (OTI) 

New WG introduced to work closely with AFWIC to explore and develop the wider application of C2 systems. WG still includes ISR as a sub-set of the structure.

 OTI includes such elements as training policy and systems, airspace and ranges, pods/instrumentation, aggressors/contractor air, threat generators, networks, synthetics, operational training centres, workforce etc. It distinguishes itself from initial skills training due to its focus on employment of weapon systems and skills in an operational setting. It spans training environments – Live, Synthetic (Virtual plus Constructive) and Blended (Live plus Synthetic) and includes small scale (Team) and large scale (Collective) training events across a full range of military operations.