Advanced Battle Management System: Needs, Progress, Challenges, and Opportunities Facing the Department of the Air Force (2022)
Chapter: Appendix A: Statement of Task
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Statement of Task
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine will establish a committee to plan and conduct a classified study to assess the planned Advanced Battle Management System (ABMS) communications and systems integration architecture. The study will examine the technical approach being employed by ABMS and its ability to effectively support the range of system integration desired, while also supporting operational and development agility; and the governance being applied by ABMS and if it is appropriate and sufficient to enable quick development and evolution of capabilities while maintaining appropriate government control over the output. Specifically, the committee will:
- Evaluate the planned ABMS data and communication architecture and compare the architecture anticipated performance characteristics to those needed to support real-time fire control and all-domain sensor-to-shooter data flow, command and control (C2) activities, artificial intelligence (AI)-based patterns-of-life training, battle damage assessment, and other related data-based activities.
- Determine any technical gaps and shortfalls in ABMS technology and planned system integration architecture.
- Review ABMS governance and recommend how planned organizational and execution plans and processes may be improved to better enable a rapid realization of Joint All-Domain Command and Control (JADC2)
- operations for the Department of the Air Force and the U.S. Department of Defense, as a whole.
The committee will convene a data-gathering workshop and four meetings of the study team and other attendees, as required, to gain relevant information. The committee will also provide a classified report summarizing the results from the study, with an unclassified public summary.
