{"id":26367,"date":"2020-01-23T01:55:06","date_gmt":"2020-01-23T01:55:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/uncategorized\/2020\/01\/23\/how-the-army-and-air-force-are-linking-comms\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T18:24:30","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T18:24:30","slug":"how-the-army-and-air-force-are-linking-comms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/it-networks\/2020\/01\/23\/how-the-army-and-air-force-are-linking-comms\/","title":{"rendered":"How the Army and Air Force are linking comms"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Military leaders have said future battlefields will be contested and congested, an environment that will require the seamless transfer of data between networks, systems, platforms and especially U.S. military services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, at the direction of the Joint Staff, the services are beginning to work together on common frameworks for networks under the banner of what the Department of Defense is calling Joint All Domain Command and Control (JADC2).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not a system, it\u2019s not a program, it\u2019s not a bunch of buzzwords, it\u2019s reality. It\u2019s what the senior [leaders] of the Department of Defense are expecting all the services to deliver,\u201d Maj. Gen. Peter Gallagher, director of the Army\u2019s network cross functional team, said at an AFCEA conference Jan. 21.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

JADC2 \u201cstarted about last July. That\u2019s what we are going to deliver with our network modernization strategy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Army and Air Force are partnering in the network space, as first reported by Breaking Defense<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gallagher told C4ISRNET that over the past few months the Army had begun to engage with the Air Force at the colonel level, but more recently representatives from Program Executive Office Command, Control, Communications-Tactical (C3T), the Mission Command Center of Excellence and the Futures and Concepts Center have gone to various Air Force bases for meetings and demonstrations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gallagher as well as Maj. Gen. David Bassett, the head of C3T, went to Eglin Air Force Base at the end of last year for a demonstration of the Air Force\u2019s Advanced Battle Management System (ABMS). Then a few weeks ago, Gallagher, Gen. John Murray, the leader of Army Futures Command, and other Army leaders went to Nellis Air Force Base to learn more about Air Force efforts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ABMS is the Air Force architecture to connect a variety of platforms.<\/p>\n\n\n\t