Joint SOF Should Drive ABMS Requirements
By Ethan Brown
September 17, 2020
While modernizing command and control architecture certainly affects all aspects of the defense department, the special operations forces enterprise, which operates at the forward-most stages of conflict, needs this capability as much as any component. Special Operations should vector away from the counter-terror paradigm of warfighting and re-align itself for great powers competition, which requires a command and control capability that enables both the initial introduction of special operations, as well as supports the facilitation of mass conventional forces into denied operational environments and the broader strategic defense architecture.
The U.S. Air Force has spearheaded critical efforts to upgrade the archaic dinosaur of the Department of Defense’s command and control systems. These efforts are better known as the Advanced Battle Management System (ABMS) under Joint All-Domain Command and Control (JADC2). In short, the Advanced Battle Management System aims to fuse information sharing across the full spectrum of warfighting, from the fighter pilot’s cockpit to the echelons of maneuver commanders, matriculating down to the tactical-level operators.
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