The Air Force picked longtime defense IT contractor Leidos to develop and manage the guts of the service’s next-gen command, control, and communications network Defense One has learned.
The $303 million contract covers “planning, analysis, and operations” for the digital infrastructure network of the Air Force’s Advanced Battle Management System—a key component of the service’s contribution to the Pentagon’s connect-everything effort, called Joint All-Domain Command and Control, or JADC2. The Air Force also recently announced plans to bring more industry partners in to ABMS experiments…
Source: Air Force taps Leidos to lead digital infrastructure for connect-everything effort. By Lauren Williams, October 2, 2024. Defense One.