Air Force to Test Data-Sharing Between F-22 and F-35 Fighters and X-37B Spaceplane

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The Air Force is planning a December exercise that will test ways to get the F-22 and F-35fighter jets and the X-37B spaceplane to transmit data in a contested domain, service officialssaid Nov. 7.Speaking at the Defense One Outlook 2020 conference in Washington, D.C., Preston Dunlap,the Air Force’s new advanced battle management system (ABMS) architect, said the service isplanning a four-monthlong exercise where it will connect the two fifth-generation fighter jets toits experimental spaceplane to help prove a concept of joint command and control for multidomainoperations.