Raytheon Intelligence & Space (RI&S) has been selected to participate in development of the US Air Force’s Advanced Battle Management System (ABMS).

ABMS is a command and control network designed to connect military platforms across the globe and better enable joint service operations.

The contract is valued at up to $950 million over the next five years, with options beyond.

“ABMS will transform the future battlespace for the U.S. Air Force by delivering the right data at the right time to the right people so they can make the right decisions fast,” said Barbara Borgonovi, vp of Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Systems at RI&S.

“This is the first step to delivering the Air Force’s vision of JADC2 (Joint All-Domain Command and Control), which will link capabilities across all domains – air, land, sea, cyber and space.”

The contract is as described as a multiple award IDIQ – in U.S. government contracting this stands for ‘indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity’.

The US Air Force, Navy and Army conducted the first ‘real world’ test of the Advanced Battle Management System in December of last year.

Pictured above are members of the 6th Special Operations Squadron – a special operations component of the United States Air Force – using a tablet to upload coordinates during an exercise at Duke Field in Florida.

During the first demonstration of the ABMS, operators across the Air Force, Army, Navy and industry tested multiple real-time data sharing tools and technology in a homeland defense-based scenario enacted by U.S. Northern Command and enabled by Air Force senior leaders, authorities reported.