Air Force leaders urged new approaches to commanding and controlling forces in combat, a mission that stretches across the service's core missions. The Chief of Staff and Secretary of the Air Force, operational commanders, and retired leaders all agree that command and control (C2) and battle management of air, space, and cyber forces needs a refresh, they contended at the Air Force Association's Air & Space Conference in September. Speakers said effective C2 underpins some of USAF's thorniest operational problems, from linking up fifth generation fighters to older aircraft, to enabling better intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance collection and analysis, as well as fighting in denied, degraded, and anti-access scenarios.
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