Battle management reforms prove daunting, general to oversee effort
By Stephen Losey
Sep 19, 11:22 AM
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — The U.S. Air Force’s effort to modernize command, control, communications and battle management has proved more challenging than expected, Secretary Frank Kendall admitted Monday morning while announcing the appointment of a new program executive officer to supervise the project.
During his keynote address at the Air Force Association’s Air, Space and Cyber Conference in National Harbor, Maryland, Kendall said he wants to keep a closer eye on how the C3 battle management effort is progressing.
Brig. Gen. Luke Cropsey will be the integrating PEO for the service’s C3 battle management effort, Kendall added.
“One of the findings of the operational imperative work to date is, we have not appreciated the scale of the effort needed to modernize [the Air Force’s] C3 battle management in a JADC2 [Joint All-Domain Command and Control] context,” Kendall said. “Our efforts to date have not been adequately focused, nor have they been adequately integrated.”
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