Defense policy bill requires reporting on ABMS progress

By Sara Sirota / December 10, 2019 at 3:21 PM
Congressional conference members have agreed to include a House provision in their fiscal year 2020 defense policy bill that requires the Air Force to share information on progress in the Advanced Battle Management System program. ABMS is the service's concept for next-generation command and control that envisions a family of systems connected via secure communications and data links. The program is expected to hold its first event testing whether an F-22 and F-35 can talk to one another this month...

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