USAF

Specialty Summary.  Manages, supervises, and performs communications-computer systems (C-CS) planning and implementation activities.  Focal point for base C-CS planning.  Manages implementation of C-CS projects and ensures C-CS architecture, configuration, and integration conformity.  Manages C-CS project installation and services contracts. 

Duties and Responsibilities:
Develops, plans, and integrates base C-CS.  Performs mission review with C-CS customers for architectural, integration, interoperability, and impact on C-CS infrastructure.  Ensures systems are in compliance with established DoD and AF policies and directives.  Ensures base C-CS Blueprint accurately reflects target architecture and requirements.  Evaluates contracts, wartime, support, contingency and exercise plans to determine impact on C-CS manpower, equipment, and systems.  Identifies resource and system shortfalls.  Ensures C-CS and personnel are deployment and mobility ready.  Reports on ability to meet AEF requirements.  Manages maintenance of unit agreements file and identifies impact of agreements on unit resources.  Helps customer develop C-CS requirements, project scope, and funding strategy.  Serves as C-CS advisor at meetings for facility design, military construction programs and minor construction planning.  Evaluates base comprehensive plan and civil engineering projects to determine C-CS impacts and shortfalls.  Prepares C-CS assessments.  Ensures technical solutions integrate with existing or proposed systems.  Controls and manages project milestones and budget from inception to completion.

Implements C-CS projects.  Maintains documents on implementing of C-CS.  Monitors project funding.  Determines implementing and support activities.  Coordinates and forwards acquisition documents for C-CS.  Prepares for C-CS site surveys.  Determines adequacy and correctness of C-CS project packages and amendments.  Processes tasking documents.  Monitors project status, and reports to higher headquarters, support, and implementing agencies.  Assists C-CS implementation teams.  Monitors project completion actions.  Ensures availability of logistic support.  Monitors project exceptions.  Monitors status of base civil engineer work requests.  Manages and maintains system installation records, files, and indexes.  Determines impact of scope changes to schedule and cost.

Manages C-CS contracts.  Administratively maintains C-CS contracts.  Manages development of statements of work and performance work statements.  Informs management of C-CS contract status, and initiates contract renewal actions.

Specialty Qualifications:
Knowledge.  Knowledge is mandatory of:  Air Force C-CS technologies, planning documents, and application of these documents to the C-CS system infrastructure; deployment and mobility requirements; management of program or project logistics support actions; and management of program or project implementation actions.

Education.  For entry into this specialty, completion of high school or general educational development equivalency is mandatory.  Completion of high school courses in business mathematics and statistics, information technology (computer science) courses is desirable.

Training.  The following training is mandatory for award of the AFSC indicated:
3C331.  Completion of the basic C-CS planning and implementation course.
3C371.  Completion of the advanced C-CS planning and implementation course.

Experience.  The following experience is mandatory for award of the AFSC indicated:
3C351.  Qualification in and possession of AFSC 3C331.  Also, experience performing C-CS planning and implementation functions.
3C371.  Qualification in and possession of AFSC 3C351.  Also, experience supervising or developing C-CS planning and implementation activities.
3C391.  Qualification in and possession of AFSC 3C371.  Also, experience managing C-CS planning and implementation functions and activities.

Other.  The following are mandatory as indicated:  For entry into this specialty:  Ability to speak clearly and distinctly.  For award and retention:  Specialty requires routine access to Secret material or similar environment.  For award and retention of AFSCs 3C3X1, completion of a current National Agency Check, Local Agency Checks and Credit (NACLC) according to AFI 31‑501, Personnel Security Program Management.  NOTE:  Award of the 3-skill level without a completed NACLC is authorized provided an interim Secret security clearance has been granted according to AFI 31-501.  For award and retention of AFSCs 3C351/71/91/00 must maintain an Air Force Network License according to AFI 33-115, Vol 2, Licensing Network Users and Certifying Network Professionals.

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