Oct. 16, 2024 Optimizing decision advantage through human-machine team experimentation The Department of the Air Force’s Advanced Battle Management System Cross-Functional Team hosted the first software sprint experiment to examine software solutions for enhanced command and control in conjunction with the Shadow Operations Center – Nellis, at the Howard Hughes Operations, or H2O,
Dec. 21, 2022 Industry event provides tech companies insight into AF Battle Lab development needs The 505th Command and Control Wing’s 805th Combat Training Squadron, also known as the Shadow Operations Center-Nellis, hosted a classified Industry Day on Dec. 9 at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada. The ShOC-N is the U.S. Air Force's premier Battle Lab supporting the experimentation, prototyping,
Feb. 2, 2022 Quarterly AFTC-AFRL Summit aims to get warfighters “ready to go fast” WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio (AFRL) – Leaders and personnel from Air Force Materiel Command organizations collaborated virtually during the quarterly Air Force Test Center–Air Force Research Laboratory Summit January 24-28 with the goal of improving technology and capability delivery times
Sept. 15, 2021 VCSAF Visits the SHOC-N Battlelab The Vice Chief of Staff of the U.S. Air Force, Gen. David Allvin, visited the 505th Command and Control Wing’s Howard Hughes Operations, or H2O, facility in downtown Las Vegas, Nevada, Aug. 28.
June 21, 2021 Nellis is empowering warfighters via DevSecOps The Department of the Air Force Rapid Capabilities Office is using multiple technologies to build its Advanced Battle Management System to create decision superiority by delivering information and capabilities to decision makers at all echelons.
May 24, 2021 With its promise and performance confirmed, ABMS moves to a new phase After 18 months exploring new ways to better connect the joint force alongside a growing cadre of industry partners, the Department of the Air Force is ready to move ABMS from the drawing board into the hands of warfighters.
March 8, 2021 Test like we fight: ‘Orange Flag’, ‘Black Flag’ collaborate to accelerate change Orange Flag, the large force test event carried out three times annually by Air Force Test Center’s 412th Test Wing, combined with the 53rd Wing’s Black Flag, bringing a first for the test community March 2-4.
Dec. 15, 2020 gatewayONE and attritableONE test moves joint force one step closer to “IoT.mil,” demonstrates F-22, F-35 first secure bi-directional data sharing This test was the latest demonstration of the transformative warfighting impact of the open architecture underpinning the Advanced Battle Management System.
Sept. 24, 2020 ABMS signs more companies post onramp The most recent selections – the fourth round announced in as many months – support an ABMS acquisition strategy that spurs competition from a variety of traditional defense as well as commercial-focused sources and streamlines the contracting process to produce capability in roughly four month
Sept. 3, 2020 Advanced Battle Management System field test brings Joint Force together across all domains during second onramp In the latest exercise, known as an “onramp,” operators used ABMS to detect and defeat efforts to disrupt U.S. operations in space in addition to countering attacks against the U.S. homeland, including shooting down a cruise missile “surrogate” with a hypervelocity weapon.