Air Force Space Command Second cyberspace weapon system reaches Full Operational Capability status Posted 2 26 2016 Updated 2 29 2016 Email story Print story by AFSPC Public Affairs 2126l2016 - PETERSON AIR FORCE BASE Colo -- Air Force Space Command achieved a significant milestone Feb 12 when the Cyberspace Vulnerability Assessment Hunter Weapon System reached Full Operational Capability status Achieving FOC means the weapon system is fully capable to serve as the premier enclave defense platform for prioritized traffic in the Air Force Information Network The weapon system enables execution of vulnerability assessments adversary threat detection and compliance evaluations is a tool for cyber defense used inside the boundaries of the defended cyber system The Air Force equips its Cyber Protection Teams with the weapon system This achievement underscores our commitment to the US Cyber Command Cyber Protection Team mission and to the defense of prioritized cyberspace terrain in the Air Force portion of the Department of Defense Information Network defends the Air Force's ability to fly fight and win in air space and cyberspace said Brig GenJ Stephen Whiting AFSPC Director of Integrated Air Space Cyberspace and Operations who signed the F00 declaration The weapon system provides the ability to find fix track target engage and assess advanced persistent threats to AF missions on prioritized network enclaves within the AFIN operators focus on providing vulnerability assessment and the Hunter mission The Hunter mission provides the 24th Air Force commander and supported combatant commanders with a deployable precision capability to identify pursue within network boundaries and mitigate cyberspace threats impacting critical links and nodes in support of theater or functional operations The weapon system provides a cyberspace security capability offering in-depth assessment of information system assets such as computers infrastructure applications data and cyberspace operations The weapon system consists of four primary components the Mobile Interceptor Platform the Deployable Interceptor Platform the Garrison Interceptor Platform and the Information Operations Platform-Fly Away Kit Active duty weapon system operations are conducted by the 92nd Cyberspace Operations Squadron and the 834th Cyberspace Operations Squadron located at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland Texas and the 835 COS and 837th Cyberspace Operations Squadron located at Scott AFB Illinois The Air Force Reserve Command is building a classic associate unit at Scott Air Force Base to employ the Also 12 Air National Guard units employ the weapon system Witnessing Gen Whiting signing the FCC declaration for culminated years of effort towards maturing and normalizing the many programmatic activities associated with developing and fielding a weapon system said Lt Col Greg McCulley Chief of the Air Force Space Command s Defensive Operations Branch and former commander of the 92nd Cyberspace Operations Squadron was officially designated a weapon system by the Air Force Chief of Staff in March 2013 and achieved Initial Operational Capability in June 2013 Weapons system is a term used as a means to identify requirements and critical resources to ensure that they receive comprehensive and equitable consideration for program-associated funding and does not mean that the particular resource is a weapon as defined by the Air Force and Department of Defense