{"id":10269,"date":"2021-08-19T18:45:28","date_gmt":"2021-08-19T18:45:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/uncategorized\/2021\/08\/19\/new-us-air-force-secretary-to-shake-up-advanced-battle-management-program\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T21:32:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T21:32:09","slug":"new-us-air-force-secretary-to-shake-up-advanced-battle-management-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/c2-comms\/2021\/08\/19\/new-us-air-force-secretary-to-shake-up-advanced-battle-management-program\/","title":{"rendered":"New US Air Force secretary to shake up Advanced Battle Management Program"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WASHINGTON \u2014 The new U.S. Air Force secretary says he\u2019s skeptical about current plans to build the service\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.c4isrnet.com\/it-networks\/2020\/09\/04\/behind-the-scenes-of-the-us-air-forces-second-test-of-its-game-changing-battle-management-system\/\" target=\"_blank\">Advanced Battle Management System<\/a>, signaling the program could be heading for an overhaul.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI want to focus it more on specific operational return on investment,\u201d Frank Kendall told Defense News in a Aug. 13 interview. \u201cWhere do we get the most improvement in performance operationally in the battlefield, for investments in that type of technology?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI don\u2019t think we\u2019ve thought thoroughly enough about where that type of technology can have the most impact and how to get there as quickly as we can,\u201d he said. \u201cI want to emphasize fielded, meaningful military capability, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.c4isrnet.com\/air\/2020\/01\/22\/the-us-air-force-tested-its-advanced-battle-management-system-heres-what-worked-and-what-didnt\/\" target=\"_blank\">not just a demonstration<\/a> that you show what cool thing you could do, but real capability in the hands of operators.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The goal of the ABMS program is to create an \u201cinternet of things\u201d for the military that would provide the technical infrastructure to connect all platforms and sensors, allowing information to flow freely among them. The service is also interested in integrating artificial intelligence technologies that could parse information and aid in decision making.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But in Kendall\u2019s view, the program has yet to answer important questions about what information will be transmitted and why, what results it is aiming to achieve and how those results will be an improvement on current command-and-control capabilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kendall said he\u2019s directed the ABMS program to do that analysis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI want to get to a design of the capability that will make a measurable difference in operational results, improve exchange ratios \u2026 and increase the number of targets that the Air Force gets serviced in a certain period of time,\u201d he said. \u201cPick your metric, but I want to be able to show an actual operational return on the investment.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kendall\u2019s comments underscore those made by other top Air Force officials, including Vice Chief of Staff Gen. 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