Air Force officials have reframed their approach to overhauling the service's command and control and battle management systems, seeking to make removing stovepipes and bolstering flexibility in executing military operations the underlying principles of the program. Armed now with “a much more sophisticated understanding of the problem that we're trying to solve” thanks to newly built analytical tools, Brig. Gen. Jeffery Valenzia, the Advanced Battle Management System’s cross-functional team lead, said the service is “in a lot better place today...