[20220215]IF11866_先进作战管理系统（ABMS）.pdf

https:/crsreports.congress.gov Updated February 15, 2022Advanced Battle Management System (ABMS)The Advanced Battle Management System (ABMS) is the U.S. Air Forces latest effort to create a next-generation command and control (C2) system. ABMS proposes using cloud environments and new communications methods to allow Air Force and Space Force systems to share data seamlessly using artificial intelligence to enable faster decisionmaking. The Air Force describes ABMS as its effort to create an internet of things, which would allow for sensors and C2 systems to be disaggregated from one another (counter to how the Air Force has traditionally performed C2). This program is the Air Forces contribution to the DODs Joint All Domain Command and Control (JADC2) effort focused on modernizing DOD decisionmaking processes for combat operations. ABMS was originally envisioned to replace the E-3 Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) (Figure 1), which currently directs air combat operations, but later took on a broader scope. Former Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition Will Roper directed that the program become less focused on command centers and aircraft, and to instead cr