HANSCOM AIR FORCE BASE, Mass. – U.S. Air Force battle management experts are reaching out to industry to find companies able to integrate new command-and-control software into a modern cloud-based framework for Air Force operations.
Officials of the Air Force Program Executive Office for Command, Control, Communications, and Battle Management at Hanscom Air Force Base, Mass., issued a request for information (A2226-26-R-0001) on Monday for the ABMS Battlespace Command and Control Center (BC3) Software Capabilities to Cloud Base Command and Control (CBC2) program.
This project seeks to develop linked projects for Advanced Battle Management System (ABMS), which seeks to develop Joint All Domain Command and Control (JADC2), and enable any sensor to inform any shooter in any domain.
Software company teams
Air Force experts want to develop teams of software companies that can onboard and grow software applications into an ABMS microservices architecture. These teams will integrate, maintain, and evolve software code, services, and applications.
The ABMS program will deliver information to warfighters that integrates current and future sensors; applications that capitalize on artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning; algorithms that make sense of massive amounts of trusted data; link space capabilities with weapon systems; and help connect the warfighter.
The project involves secure, resilient command, control, and communications; battlespace awareness; integrated fires; any sensor and any shooter; networked forces; computing, processing, data storage, search, machine learning and AI at the edge; multi-trust and zero-trust networks; a multi-spectrum mesh infrastructure; the ability to tolerate disconnected intermittent, low-bandwidth environments; and new and legacy data.
Open-systems standards
The project also will involve open-systems architectures, and open-systems industry standards to deliver resilient command and control, battlespace awareness, and integrated fires even in conditions withy disconnected, intermittent, and low- bandwidth communications.
Companies interested should email five-page responses no later than 9 Feb. 2026 to Cahi Hardy, the CBC2 program manager, at [email protected] and Katharine DeConzo, the CBC2 contracting officer, at [email protected] and Katharine DeConzo at https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/70cc73baeb514eb0afe5ca90f7111435/view.
