Sec. 215. Sense of the Senate on the Advanced Battle Management System
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It is the sense of the Senate that— the Senate supports the vision of the Air Force for the Advanced Battle Management System
(ABMS)as a system of systems that can integrate air, space, and other systems to detect, track, target, and direct effects against threats in all domains; such a capability will be essential to the ability of the Air Force to operate effectively as part, and in support, of the Joint Force, especially in the highly-contested operating environments established by near-peer competitors; the Senate is concerned that the Air Force has not moved quickly enough over the past year to begin defining the requirements and maturing the technologies that will be essential for the Advanced Battle Management System, especially in light of the pending retirement of the Joint Surveillance and Target Attack Radar System (JSTARS) aircraft that the Advanced Battle Management System is conceived, in part, to replace; the Senate understands that the Air Force is moving deliberately to analyze alternative concepts for the Advanced Battle Management System and adopt an architectural approach to its design; the Advanced Battle Management System, as a multidomain system of systems, must have a central command and control capability that can integrate these systems into a unified warfighting capability; emerging technologies, such as artificial intelligence and automated sensor fusion, should be built into the command and control capability for the Advanced Battle Management System from the start; such technologies would improve the ability of the Advanced Battle Management System to support human operators with— the rapid processing and fusion of multidomain sensor data; the highly-automated identification, classification, tracking, and targeting of threats in all domains; the creation of a real-time common operating picture from multidomain intelligence; and the ability to direct effects on the battlefield at machine-to-machine speeds from all of the systems comprising the Advanced Battle Management System; and for an effort as ambitious and complex as the Advanced Battle Management System, the Senate encourages the Air Force to use existing acquisition authorities to begin a rapid prototyping effort to refine the requirements and software-intensive technologies that will be integral to the command and control capability of the Advanced Battle Management System.