Making the most of the Air Force’s investment in Joint All Domain Command and Control
Morgan Dwyer
The Air Force recently requested $302 million for the Advanced Battle Management System, the leading technical solution to the problem of Joint All Domain Command and Control. JADC2 describes an emerging concept whereby sensors and shooters in all domains — air, land, sea, space, and cyberspace — are linked and can rapidly target adversary forces. But as the Air Force develops and demonstrates its technical solution for JADC2, it will encounter organizational constraints that impede its ability to operate and acquire new technology jointly. Making the most of the Air Force’s investment, therefore, requires a commitment from Department of Defense leadership to not only build technical links between sensors and shooters but organizational links as well.
Technical solutions for JADC2
The Air Force’s ABMS has emerged as the leading technical solution to connect sensors and shooters and to enable JADC2. The Air Force, in turn, plans to initially develop ABMS using a “DevOps " strategy, with new capability demonstrations every four months. ABMS’s first demonstration, for example, tested a technical architecture consisting of data-sharing interfaces between several systems, including an Air Force F-22 and a Navy Arleigh Burke-class destroyer. It also tested a new cloud-based repository for storing shared data.
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