Recommendation:
The ANG AOC Falconer Lite weapon systems are currently not included in the program office fielding plan for upgrade to Block 20. Instead, ANG units are expected to remotely access upgraded Block 20 capabilities solely through a cloud environment. This approach introduces new, unmitigated risk in maintaining ANG AOC combat mission readiness/operational training, ongoing distributed operations, and effective reach-back capability for aligned geographic AOCs. The six ANG AOCs require one Block-20 Lite AOC-Weapons System, or interim weapon system, each consisting of scaled down hardware and software to directly support aligned AOC requirements for combat mission ready augmentation and distributed operations. This is a 2024 WEPTAC Critical Capability. This resolution is no longer supported by Weapon System Council nor Combat Support/Mission Support Task Force. More specific new requirements are submitted in additional resolutions.