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U.S. Air Force Planning to Integrate Project Maven Into ABMS Exercise Next Month

Frank Wolfe

Wednesday, August 12th, 2020

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U.S. Air Force Planning to Integrate Project Maven Into ABMS Exercise Next Month

Preston Dunlap, Air Force Chief Architect, briefs Department of Defense senior leaders on ABMS works during the first ABMS live demonstration at Eglin AFB, Fla. last December 18. (U.S. Air Force Photo)

The U.S. Air Force is planning to integrate Project Maven into a test of the service's Advanced Battle Management System (ABMS) next month. The Air Force has requested $3.3 billion for ABMS over five years, including $302.3 million in fiscal 2021. ABMS, which the Air Force describes as the air and space “military Internet of Things,” is part of Joint All-Domain Command-and Control (JADC2), an effort to build a cross-service digital architecture for multi-domain operations. "We have connected the [Project]…

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