The Air Force is pursuing new battle management and command-and-control efforts after abandoning the E-8C Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System recapitalization program in its fiscal year 2019 budget request. The service is turning to its E-3 Airborne Warning and Control System to host next-generation battle management capabilities until the service pieces together a new system of systems to handle that mission in the 2040s. Other upgrades are spread throughout the budget request, across systems like the MQ-9 Reaper and...
