• Next-gen TOC-L systems announced to boost agile C2 capabilities

    The Department of the Air Force recently announced the upgrade of the Tactical Operations Center-Light capability with its Major Release 2 prototype, July 22, 2025. This rapid prototyping effort, developed with support from long-standing industry partners, will deliver more than 40 next-generation

  • Air Force Battle Lab advances the kill chain with AI, C2 Innovation

    The 805th Combat Training Squadron, or Shadow Operations Center-Nellis, completed another major experiment of 2025, advancing key priorities in human-machine teaming, data convergence, and emerging technologies to sharpen U.S. Air Force and command and control capabilities, Nellis Air Force Base,

  • Air Force, Army shaping the future of C2, together

    The Air Force is demonstrating its commitment to joint warfighting capabilities, integrating airpower into a vast network of sensors and shooters during Project Convergence Capstone 5, a large-scale military modernization experiment held amidst the desolate California desert, the Shadow Operations

  • Advanced Battle Management System: victory through distributed connectivity

    As sophisticated technology assumes greater prominence on the modern battlefield, ensuring force connectivity and managing complex information flows is becoming increasingly determinative of engagement outcomes. The Department of the Air Force’s answer to this networking challenge is the Advanced

  • Air Force plans to add ‘science’ to the ‘art’ of war

    The Air Force continues to advance its efforts to modernize command and control systems through the development of a transformational model for decision advantage, which reveals opportunities to improve warfighters’ ability to make better decisions faster than their adversary. The transformational

  • DAF BATTLE NETWORK capability tested at Emerald Flag 24-3

    An Air Force aerial networking capability currently being developed by the Department of the Air Force’s Program Executive Office for Command, Control, Communications and Battle Management’s DAF BATTLE NETWORK was tested during Emerald Flag 24-3, in October.  

  • Leaders discuss operational imperatives

    Government leaders joined industry and academia for discussions on the Air Force’s state of readiness, the Secretary of the Air Force’s operational imperatives, and the future of the Advanced Battle Management System.