Paul Birch

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Air Warfare

Build ABMS From Bottom-up, For The Joint Force

Unless all five services adopt ABMS it will do little good for the Joint force, no matter how technologically advanced the system is. In building the system, the Air Force faces a basic choice between placing the weight of effort on the top, beginning at the strategic level and working down, or the inverse, beginning at the tactical level and building up. ABMS is more likely to be adopted if our service builds the system from the bottom-up. 

Air Warfare

How To Build JADC2 To Make It Truly Joint

A rara avis. That is what you are reading. This opinion piece by three active duty Air Force officers deals with perhaps the service’s most important program start since the Cold War, the Advanced Battle Management System (ABMS), which most industry and military experts believe will be the key to All Domain Operations. The Air […]

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