U.S. Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. CQ Brown recently signed a document that could help form the foundation of success in future warfare. He approved the Air Force's first-ever Advanced Battle Management System campaign plan as a playbook to achieving "decision superiority" in support of the Department of Defense's Joint All-Domain Command and Control initiative. He identified eight war-fighting capabilities the Air Force and Space Force must develop to achieve decision superiority: data sharing; human capital development; distributed decision-making; advanced communications; advanced sensing; integrated planning; command and control of convergence of effects; and accelerated decision-making. First among equals: data sharing. Victory belongs to the side that can process and employ data fastest. We call this "information advantage," and it yields decision superiority. Our readiness to deter and, if necessary, defeat a global power rests on our ability to share data.
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