El sistema tiende a compartir datos de cualquier plataforma con cualquier otro sistema de armas en forma instant\u00e1nea y sin limitaciones. Los responsables sostienen que los problemas se centran en el uso de informaci\u00f3n clasificada que no se libera, y las cr\u00edticas sobre la seguridad, el costo y el cumplimiento de plazos.<\/p>\n
A report by a government watchdog that slammed the Air Force\u2019s major command-and-control program<\/a> did not include key classified information and was outdated by the time it was released last week, the service\u2019s top general said Wednesday<\/a>.<\/p>\n On Friday, the Government Accountability Office delivered a scathing report on the Air Force\u2019s Advanced Battle Management System<\/a>, which seeks to overhaul the U.S. military\u2019s command-and-control infrastructure so that any platform will instantly and seamlessly be able to share data with another weapon system on the battlefield.<\/p>\n The problem, according to the GAO, is that the Air Force has not provided enough detail on exactly what technology it needs, how it plans to field it and how much it will cost. But speaking to reporters on Wednesday, Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Dave Goldfein said the agency did not have access to key information that may have fleshed out the service\u2019s plans.<\/p>\n \u201cThere is a bit of latency to the reporting,\u201d Goldfein said. \u201cTwo things I would offer is that they were not able to get to our December ABMS demo. So they didn\u2019t actually \u2026 see in real time what we were connecting.\u201d<\/p>\n The other problem, Goldfein said, is that the organization was not cleared to receive information about the classified portions of the program.<\/p>\n \u201cThat makes it challenging because if the technology you\u2019re moving forward, if a lot of it is in the classified realm \u2014 if a lot of it, quite frankly, was in the space realm \u2014 and the GAO doesn\u2019t have access or clearance to be able to look at it, then the report is going to be on a very small portion of what the Advanced Battle Management System really is,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n In an email to Defense News, GAO director Marie Mak disputed Goldfein\u2019s characterization of the report, saying that the organization has a full understanding of past and present ABMS efforts, including the December exercise and numerous classified discussions.<\/p>\n \u201cThose discussions did not change our finding that the Air Force still does not have an overall plan for ABMS, a point which they openly acknowledged and in fact concurred with our recommendations,\u201d she said. \u201cThe Air Force still needs to develop an overall plan, to include preliminary costs and schedule. Without some type of overall plan in place, it will be difficult for the Air Force to prioritize this program among the acquisition efforts within the Air Force.\u201d<\/p>\n When Goldfein became the Air Force\u2019s chief of staff in 2016, he made connecting the joint force one of his major priorities. Since then, the service has canceled efforts to replace legacy aircraft that play a role in battlefield management, such as a recapitalization of the E-8C Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System aircraft.<\/p>\n Instead, it has put its financial resources toward ABMS, which it envisions as a family of systems that will be more survivable than a direct replacement for JSTARS aircraft or other assets.<\/p>\n