"[Air Force] organizations get to manage individual programs, but we don't have someone who is in charge of the overall design of these things that have to tie together and perform functions as a whole,” Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall said. “I think we need to create something that has more of that kind of responsibility."
"The challenge is taking the data that you want to share — you got to understand it, and how you want to share it — and then write the applications that give you that data quality at the highest level, and compress timelines for those decision makers," said Randy Walden, head of the Air Force Rapid Capabilities Office.
Midsized companies can offer flexibility and agility while keeping intellectual property in the hands of the government.
"If data is the new oil, then we want to mine that data, refine that data," to make it more useful across the service, Col. Peter Chiou says.
A new pod-based comms system for the KC-46, enabling it to serve as a 'translator' for the incompatible radio systems of the F-22 and F-35, will be fielded in the last quarter of fiscal 2022.
In part four of our exclusive video interview, Preston Dunlap discusses one of toughest challenges to All Domain Operations: integrating an effective tactical edge node into the larger network.
The Air Force’s Advanced Battle Management System is growing from an alternative to JSTARS to a multi-domain mega-network to connect all four services in future wars. Is this a revolution or overreach?
Balancing security and access to data are critical to providing users with trustworthy, reliable data for real-time decisions.
Next month, the Air Force will start rapid-fire field tests of new network tech, including a long-delayed secure datalink between its two stealth fighters.