
Senate appropriators are overall supportive of the Air Force's Advanced Battle Management System (ABMS) research-and-development effort, and want to provide additional funds in fiscal year 2020 to further refine the concept and find technology solutions. The Senate Appropriations Committee’s FY ’20 defense spending bill, which was voted out of committee Sept. 12, added several million dollars for the service to conduct additional requirements refinement and technology identification. The Air Force requested $36.5 million in the FY ’20 presidential budget request…