{"id":19624,"date":"2020-03-18T17:01:35","date_gmt":"2020-03-18T17:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/uncategorized\/2020\/03\/18\/the-coronavirus-pandemic-has-temporarily-derailed-the-air-forces-advanced-battle-management-system-program\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T17:47:57","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T17:47:57","slug":"the-coronavirus-pandemic-has-temporarily-derailed-the-air-forces-advanced-battle-management-system-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/coronavirus\/2020\/03\/18\/the-coronavirus-pandemic-has-temporarily-derailed-the-air-forces-advanced-battle-management-system-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus pandemic (temporarily) derails the Air Force\u2019s Advanced Battle Management System program"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Air Force has postponed the second round of tests for its<a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/digital-show-dailies\/paris-air-show\/2019\/07\/09\/rule-no1-for-air-forces-new-advanced-battle-management-system-we-dont-start-talking-platforms-until-the-end\/\" target=\"_blank\"> next-generation battle management system<\/a> due to the new coronavirus, known as COVID-19, moving the exercise from April to June, the service\u2019s top general said Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Air Force <a href=\"https:\/\/www.c4isrnet.com\/air\/2019\/12\/21\/the-air-force-just-conducted-the-first-test-of-its-advanced-battle-management-system\/\" target=_blank>conducted the first demonstration of the Advanced Battle Management System<\/a> in December, using a number of operational platforms \u2014 including F-35 Joint Strike Fighters, F-22 jets and the Navy destroyer Thomas Hudner \u2014 to test a number of experimental technologies meant to allow the services to connect and share data more seamlessly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During a news conference on the Air Force\u2019s response to COVID-19, its chief of staff, Gen. David Goldfein, stressed that the service will pick up the test effort again as soon as the pandemic subsides.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt\u2019s really important that we\u2019re not canceling it; we\u2019re postponing it because there\u2019s a number of industry leaders that are also involved in this,\u201d Goldfein said. \u201cWe want to make sure that we get right on track as soon as the conditions allow us to.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/battlefield-tech\/c2-comms-battlefield-tech\/2020\/01\/22\/the-us-air-force-tested-its-advanced-battle-management-system-heres-what-worked-and-what-didnt\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"196\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/191217-F-QF982-0089.JPG.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">The Air Force tested its Advanced Battle Management System. Here\u2019s what worked, and what didn\u2019t.<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">We regret to inform you that the robot dogs need some work.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Goldfein, who retires this summer, has made battlefield connectivity a major priority of the Air Force, but the specific nature of ABMS remains nebulous.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Although the service codified an overall architecture for the system, which will require a more modern IT backbone and moving data to the cloud, the Air Force has not identified specific systems or contractors that will build or integrate the system, instead choosing to conduct multiple experiments to shake out what technologies work and which can be pulled into the whole of ABMS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The second ABMS experiment was slated to be bigger than the first, with U.S. Northern Command, U.S. Space Command and U.S. Strategic Command all participating in the exercise. Army Gen. Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Air Force Gen. John Hyten, the vice chairman, were expected to attend, Goldfein said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the meantime, the Air Force will use the time it has available to advance technologies and refine its game plan for the experiment, he said. In the December experiment, 26 of the 28 technologies tested met a satisfactory level of performance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe actually thought that was too many. Maybe we should stretch ourselves. \u2026 We\u2019re trying far more new things, trying to connect capabilities that are not currently connected,\u201d Goldfein said. \u201cIf we get this right, about 60 percent of it will work; 40 percent won\u2019t work, and we\u2019ll learn from that and move forward.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Air Force wants to spend $302 million on ABMS in fiscal 2021, more than doubling what the program received in FY20.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><b>War games and supply chains<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While Air Force operations are ongoing, the service has opted to cancel a number of training exercises, including Red Flag Alaska, a major air combat training exercise originally planned for May. While the cancellation impacted the training of the \u201cfew hundred\u201d airmen scheduled to attend, it also gives those units the opportunity to focus on COVID-19 prevention efforts on the ground, Goldfein said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cRight now, we\u2019re early enough on the number of exercises canceled that it\u2019s recoverable,\u201d he said. \u201cWhat I anticipate happening is that we will put into place procedures to actually be able to continue exercising, albeit perhaps at a lower rate in terms of numbers by bringing social distancing and the other [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention] protocols in play.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Air Force is also keeping a close eye on the availability of aircraft parts and other supplies necessary to complete its missions. 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