Advanced Battle Management System Needs, Progress, Challenges, and Opportunities Facing the Department of the Air Force (2022) / Chapter Skim
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4 Challenges and Opportunities
4 Challenges and Opportunities
Pages 93-101
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While significant progress has been made to transition ABMS from on-ramp demonstrations and experimentations to fielding specified solutions through capability releases, the evolving nature of the threat environment necessitates continuous security enhancements, software and hardware refreshes and upgrades, and the introduction of newer and more advanced technologies. As such, the committee is able to provide only an assessment of ABMS technology and planned system integration architecture as it exists during the committee's review.
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The EA or JPO would provide guidance and over sight for the systems in development; prioritize requirements in concert with the Joint Requirements Oversight Council (JROC) ; and promote the use of open architecture standards.
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INTELLIGENCE The adversaries of today and the future are highly sophisticated, diverse, and unpredictable. The range of military missions and operations that the Department of the Air Force (DAF)
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(Chapter 2) RECOMMENDATION 4: The Department of the Air Force Chief Architect's Office and the Department of the Air Force Rapid Capabilities Office should design the Advanced Battle Management System's architecture with specific technical requirements and solutions for ensuring that communications, data, and computation may continue to operate in degraded or denied ac cess environments.
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(Chapter 2) RECOMMENDATION 8: In coordination with the Department of the Air Force Chief Software Officer, the Department of the Air Force Chief Archi tect's Office and the Department of the Air Force Rapid Capabilities Office should expand the use of containerization and Kubernetes for continuous Advanced Battle Management System development and for detecting and mitigating security vulnerabilities.
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(Chapter 2) RECOMMENDATION 14: In addition to adopting zero trust, the Depart ment of the Air Force Rapid Capabilities Office should leverage the best available mature cybersecurity practices and capabilities, including multi factor authentication; identity, credential, and access management; encryp tion; penetration testing; managed detection services; behavior monitoring applications; among others.
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RECOMMENDATION 19: The Department of the Air Force Rapid Capa bilities Office should consider scaling the Common Mission Control Center and designate it as phase zero for the Advanced Battle Management System. (Chapter 2)
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, organizational and social interoperations, and the operational implications of the shortfalls) and the specific proposed investment options with their costs and opera tional benefits when proposing the next increment of the to-be system.6 These are the type of specific investment options being considered by the DAF RCO in their capability releases, but a broad sense of this option space needs to be developed and articulated to all stakeholders, including Congress.
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The committee is concerned, however, that the inability to articulate the magnitude of these operational shortfalls, their implications for national defense, the range of investment options (mature and developmental) , and their costs and operational benefits may lead to insufficient attention and resources, as well as inadequate attention to the larger non-technical challenges that must be addressed if the Joint Warfighting Concept (JWC)
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