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Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Air Battle Management
Applied deliberately across integrated surveillance and identification, force and information management, and the continuum of control, AI can improve tactical decision-making while allowing Air Battle Managers to focus on translating commander’s intent into action. The challenge is determining where automation ends and the exercise of authority begins.
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Beyond the E-7: Building a Resilient Future for Airborne C2
This post examines the fiscal and political risks facing the E-7, considers the limitations of messaging and a transition away from airborne C2ABM as alternative solutions, and argues that a high-low mix offers the most practical path to preserving airborne C2ABM capacity over the long term.
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The Shaanxi KJ-500: The Nerve Center of the Dragon’s Kill Web
Modern air combat will be decided by who has the most resilient network – The KJ-500 AEW&C platform is a key part of this for China. Blue Force airmen must learn to operate in its presence and master the art of Air Battle Management to tear that network apart.
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Modern-day Marshals
The essence of command and control is translating a commander’s intent into synchronized action across dispersed forces at the decisive time and place. As Napoleon’s marshals accomplished these functions in the past, air battle managers carry on the same tradition today.
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The Next Rep: AI-Assisted Simulation and the Future of C2 Training
AI-assisted simulation can address the shortage of frequent, high-quality C2 training repetitions between larger training events. By automating scenario variations, role-playing, and debriefs within instructor boundaries, AI can improve training outcomes. This ensures limited, high-fidelity training time focuses on advanced battle management decisions rather than basic skills.
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PODCAST – Automated Battle Management (and 1 year of C2 Coord)
“JB” Baker joins SWAT and Opie in a discussion centered on JB’s piece Your Radios: A Retiring Air Battle Manager’s Assessment of the Future of Command and Control and the Question I’m Leaving Behind, while also reflecting on one year of C2 Coord and looking ahead to another amazing year!
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Scarcity Is the Real Air Battle Management Problem in the Pacific
The Pacific deterrence problem is not just whether the joint force can see. It is whether it can stay coherent long enough to deny a rapid success.
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Just Like in the Simulations
Simulation training is essential for Air Battle Managers to develop Information Management and Force Management skills across all levels of complexity. Beginner through expert simulator events build proficiency from basic communication and coordination to expert-level instruction, joint integration, and mission synchronization.
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Legends and Myths
Legends and myths contribute to cultural understanding and help members of a community identify cultural norms or ideals. By improving access to legends of the past and creating new legends for the future, a more cohesive and enduring C2ABM culture may emerge.
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Deterrence Requires Air Battle Management, Not Just Better Sensing
Air battle management is the part of the warfighting architecture that keeps a force coherent under pressure. If an adversary believes it can disconnect the joint force’s ability to bring order to chaos in the air domain, the deterrent effect of other individually-exquisite capabilities is minimized.
