Kendall also expressed concern about the effects of a likely continuing resolution on key programs, including the Advanced Battle Management System and the Joint Advanced Tactical Missile.
"The current fielding plan should stay intact for CBC2 if we don't get all the money that we need up front," Brig. Gen. Luke Cropsey told reporters.
The first analysis of what that architecture would look like was delivered to Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall in June, Brig. Gen. Luke Cropsey said.
“Until I get to a good identity management system that’s coupled in with a good zero trust capability that allows me to start to get to network-agnostic data flows, our ability to integrate both across services and with partners is going to continue to be challenged,” Air Force Brig. Gen. Luke Cropsey, integrating program executive officer command, control, communications and battle management, said.
The Department of the Air Force Battle Network represents “the physical architecture, the product architecture, that's needed” to realize JADC2 capabilities, Brig. Gen. Luke Cropsey, the integrating program executive officer for Command, Control, Communications and Battle Management, said in an interview with Breaking Defense.
The Space Force is "working with the Air Force and the Intelligence Community (IC) in a complementary way to design, develop, and deploy space-based GMTI systems," the service's FY24 budget documents explain.
The Department of the Air Force aims to set up a new program office dedicated solely to "resiliency," a key pillar of America's space strategy.
The Air Force also needs to define which initial capabilities it plans to deliver under another ABMS effort this year, the Government Accountability Office says in a new report.