# Air Force Integrated Collaborative Environment **Entity class:** Distributed modeling, simulation, and interoperability environment **Aliases:** AF-ICE ## Definition The **Air Force Integrated Collaborative Environment (AF-ICE)** was an Air Force setting for planning, developing, testing, and evaluating interoperability and network compliance before systems reached warfighters. The inaugural 2006 demonstration was playfully called “ICE Breaker.” The 2007 Integral Fire event connected fifteen distributed sites over the Defense Research and Engineering Network. ## Relationships - **operators:** Air Force Materiel Command and participating Air Force organizations. - **functions:** distributed simulation, network compliance, interoperability testing, and acquisition acceleration. - **historical route:** predecessor pattern for modern multi-domain test and mission-partner environments. - **disambiguation route:** [[wiki/ICE|ICE disambiguation]]. ## Sources / Provenance - [U.S. Air Force — AFMC leads ICE Breaker](https://www.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/130440/afmc-leads-ice-breaker/) - [U.S. Air Force — Integral Fire 2007](https://www.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/126256/center-has-key-role-in-integral-fire-2007/)