An air battle manager participants in the 805th Combat Training Squadron’s second Decision Advantage Sprint for Human-Machine Teaming wargame in July 2025. (U.S. Air Force photo by Debora Henley.)
"We’re physically … stressing the battle managers into making decisions, and then having companies observe what they’re doing and then trying to develop microservices that improve the…
U.S. Air Force air battle managers participate in the Department of the Air Force’s Advanced Battle Management System Cross-Functional Team first Decision Advantage Sprint for Human-Machine Teaming, or DASH, experiment, recently held at the Howard Hughes Operations, or H2O, Center in Las Vegas, Nev., April 8, 2025. This two-week event brought together operational warfighters and industry and Shadow Operations Center-Nellis software developers to prototype microservices aimed at accelerating and improving decision-making in high-tempo battle management scenarios framed by the Transformational Model. (U.S. Air Force photo)
The Air Force's Transformational Model for Decision Advantage is serving as the foundation for a number of ongoing experiments focused on supporting the Pentagon's broader Combined Joint…
Under the direction of the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD), two CF-18s assigned to the Royal Canadian Air Force flies behind a KC-135 assigned to the Pennsylvania Air National Guard during air-defense Operation NOBLE DEFENDER, Oct. 27, 2022. (U.S. Air National Guard Photos by Tech. Sgt. Bryan Hoover)
In an exclusive interview, Brig. Gen. Luke Cropsey laid out how he's tackling the intricacies of modernizing the Air Force's command-and-control enterprise.
Gen. Charles Brown and Chief Master Sgt. Joanne Bass brief reporters at the Air and Space Forces Association’s 2022 Air, Space and Cyber conference. (Photo by Brandi Vincent)
Burke Baker, a technical director from the 2nd Audiovisual Squadron, operates a switch board in support of the Advanced Battle Management System (ABMS) Onramp 2, Aug. 31, 2020 at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Daniel Hernandez)
L3Harris, Leidos, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon and SAIC were all selected to be part of ABMS Digital Infrastructure Consortium to help the Air Force build out the technical…
