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WASHINGTON \u2014 In fiscal 2021, Congress slashed funding <\/a>for the Advanced Battle Management System, leaving only about half of the money requested by the Air Force for one of its top modernization priorities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For the Air Force, it was a wake-up call that the program had become too nebulous<\/a> and focused on technology demonstration exercises, said Gen. Dave Allvin, the Air Force\u2019s vice chief of staff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe understood that, when Congress looked at [the budget], that it was wasn\u2019t clear enough. That perhaps we hadn\u2019t laid out a clear enough path to justify the funds that we were requesting,\u201d Allvin told reporters during a June 24 roundtable. \u201cWe had to look ourselves in the mirror and say, we need to better align ourselves to be able to articulate more clearly what we want to do.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, the service finds itself having to correct the course of the program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The cornerstone of the ABMS program up to now had been \u201con-ramp\u201d experiments where the Air Force and defense companies tested whether various off-the-shelf technologies could give operators an edge during a scripted exercise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Going forward, the service wants to highlight plans to buy \u201chard capabilities\u201d that could be pushed to airmen for further testing, maturation and use in operations. Ultimately, the goal is to field layers of new networking, communications and machine learning technologies that would be interwoven to \u2014 eventually \u2014 connect the aircraft, sensors, and operations centers that identify, track and prosecute targets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For fiscal 2022, the Air Force has asked for about $204 million for the ABMS program. The sum is a considerable increase from the $158 million lawmakers approved in FY21 but is far short of the $449 million it had planned to request in FY22, according to previous budget documents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThat\u2019s part of us just being better stewards, quite frankly,\u201d Allvin said. \u201cWe anticipate that the investments that we\u2019ve asked for will provide that return, they\u2019ll provide Congress the confidence to help us out in the future if we were to look for more money in the budget years to come.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What will lawmakers get for that $204 million?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More than half of those funds will go toward the first ABMS \u201ccapability release\u201d to be procured and delivered to the field: a bespoke pod for the Boeing KC-46 refueling tanker that will allow it to act as a communications node for the stealthy F-22 and F-35 fighters, which cannot currently share information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Air Force plans to field four pods for an early operational capability by the end of FY22 but could acquire up to 10 pods, said Brig. Gen. Jeffery Valenzia, who leads the Air Force\u2019s ABMS cross-functional team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some of the FY22 dollars will lay the groundwork for the next two capability releases, which are still in the planning stages. The second ABMS increment will deliver hardware, software and artificial intelligence algorithms to U.S. Northern Command aimed at increasing the speed commanders can make decisions, Valenzia said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A prototype fire control radar used to track threats and pass information to weapons designed to take down the target is being tested during the Advanced Battle Management Systems (ABMS) Onramp 2 at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico on Aug. 27, 2020. (Senior Airman Daniel Garcia\/U.S. Air Force)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

That AI may be trained to identify anomalous patterns of life or characterize objects that could pose a threat to the nation, as well as to provide options to commanders on whether to strike a target or take other action.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe need to have a good understanding of the quality of the data sources, of the corruptibility of the data sources, of the security of the data sources, because that will inform us as to how much we trust the data coming into the machine,\u201d Allvin said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The third capability release, Valenzia said, will be more foundational, aimed at building network infrastructure and processing vast amounts of data across a larger enterprise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last November, the Air Force announced it was ready to begin procurement of the first elements of what will eventually become the Advanced Battle Management System. With that shift, the service would transition acquisition authority for the program to the Air Force\u2019s Rapid Capability Office<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Valenzia\u2019s cross-functional team would generate requirements for ABMS capability releases and figure out how to integrate those new technologies into the service\u2019s existing doctrine, training and operations. Meanwhile, Air Force Chief Architect Preston Dunlap would continue running periodic experiments with emerging tech that could funnel into later capability releases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are signs that the Air Force\u2019s new approach may be more palatable to lawmakers and experts who had previously criticized the structure of the ABMS program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Government Accountability Office slammed the program in an April 2020 report<\/a>, stating that the ABMS effort was at risk of delays and cost overruns because it had not finalized an acquisition strategy or put forward a cost estimate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

GAO Director Marie Mak told C4ISRNet in an interview<\/a> earlier this month that the Air Force\u2019s transition of the program to the RCO is a step in the right direction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhen we first started looking at ABMS it was demo after demo, and we were sort of like, what\u2019s your point?\u201d Mak said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI think now that the RCO [Rapid Capabilities Office] has taken it, they\u2019ve made a concerted effort to not focus on just the demos \u2026 and that\u2019s what the budget seems to be focusing on as well longer term. So that\u2019s a good thing,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, the service hasn\u2019t answered all concerns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Allvin acknowledged that \u2014 because of the incremental and iterative nature of the ABMS program \u2014 the Air Force is still not able to provide a full cost estimate for the program, and may not be able to ever forecast how much the service will spend on the effort.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhere the cost estimates really become crystallized is associated with the capability releases,\u201d he said. \u201cThat\u2019s where you get an acquisition strategy. And that\u2019s where \u2026 those who understand cost, schedule and performance really can dig into that and see the specificity of it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Air Force plans on developing a full cost estimate for each capability release, with the estimate for the first capability release due at the end of June, Allvin said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s different, which is why we are getting we need to be very transparent with what we\u2019re doing, how we\u2019re approaching it, in order to give Congress and the public who gives us the money, the confidence that what we\u2019re doing has a design and an objective.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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