Air Force ABMS Czar: There Will Be Stumbles, But ‘We’re Headed in the Right Direction’
July 10, 2023 | By Chris Gordon
Coordination across the services is at a historic high when it comes to the Pentagon’s plans to connect sensors and shooters from every domain around the globe—but there will still be setbacks in the ambitious effort, Brig. Gen. Luke C.G. Cropsey, the Department of the Air Force’s Integrating Program Executive Officer for Command, Control, Communications, and Battle Management, said July 10.
The key for the Air Force and the other services, Cropsey said, will be to not let those setbacks discourage them from pushing forward with their vision of a future networked battlefield where sensors in the air, on land, at sea, and in space can seamlessly share data among weapons systems: Combined Joint All Domain Command and Control (CJADC2).
“We got a lot of great Americans out there across this entire department that have fundamentally grasped the need and the requirement to figure this thing out,” Cropsey said at an AFA Warfighters in Action event. “I think we’re in a unique juncture in history right now when it comes to the pervasiveness with which the need to do something different exists across the entire department. It doesn’t matter whether I’m talking air, doesn’t matter if I’m talking space. If I go to the Navy and I talk to the Army, everybody’s on the same sheet of music when it comes to this topic. It’s crazy. I’ve never seen as much alignment in the last 30 years that I’ve been doing this.”
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