History
The AFNIC has a long and proud lineage, and now serves as the sixth generation AF central communications and information organization. AFNIC traces its history back to the Army Airways Communications System (AACS), which was organized on November 15, 1938 in the Directorate of Communications of the U.S. Army Air Corps. The official lineage of the AACS as a separate unit, began on April 13, 1943 with the constitution of the AACS Wing. The wing was soon reassigned directly to HQ Army Air Forces, on July 14, 1943. Major command status was reached with the addition of Headquarters (HQ) to the AACS name on April 26, 1944.
On March 13, 1946, AACS was redesignated Air Communications Service (ACS) and reassigned to the Air Transport Command. The ACS was then redesignated the Airways and Air Communications Service (AACS) on September 11, 1946, and subsequently reassigned to the Military Air Transport Service on June 1, 1948.
Airways and Air Communications Service became an Air Force major command again on July 1, 1961, and was simultaneously redesignated Air Force Communications Service (AFCS).
AFCS was redesignated Air Force Communications Command (AFCC) on November 15, 1979. AFCC became a field operating agency on July 1, 1991, reporting to Headquarters United States Air Force. Around this time, it lost all the communications units that had been gathered under it for many years. These units went to the groups or wings they had worked for. It was redesignated Air Force Command, Control, Communications, and Computer Agency (AFC4A) on May 28, 1993; AFC4A was redesignated the Air Force Communications Agency (AFCA) on June 13, 1996 and on April 1, 1997 was assigned to the Air Force Communications and Information Center. AFCA was reassigned to HQ United States Air Force on October 1, 2000.
AFCA was reassigned to HQ Air Force Space Command, the Air Force's designated lead for cyber, on May 4, 2009, and redesignated the Air Force Network Integration Center on July 15, 2009. AFNIC works closely with Twenty-Fourth Air Force on cyber issues.
In 2012 it was announced that AFNIC would be restructured, divesting some of its cyber mission to Air Force Space Command. Current organize, train and equip staff functions within AFNIC, such as records, forms, publications, cyber training programs, cyber requirements support, plans, and maintenance policy, transferred to the AFSPC Cyberspace Support Squadron (CYSS), which stood up at Scott AFB. Other functions transferred to the new 92d Information Operations Squadron and 38th Cyberspace Readiness Squadron.
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