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        Policy UpdatesNewsroomReoptimizationBIOGRAPHIESAF Senior Leaders      Col. Aaron Gibney, 505th Combat Training Group commander (bottom center) welcomes Vice Chief of Staff of the U.S. Air Force Gen. David Allvin (middle center) to the Howard Hughes Operations, or H2O, facility in downtown Las Vegas, Nev., Aug. 28, 2021. The Shadow Operations Center-Nellis, or ShOC-N, is Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. CQ Brown, Jr.’s designated primary Joint All-Domain Command and Control (JADC2) Battlelab for information gathering and disseminations and application testing and development.Col. Aaron Gibney, 505th Combat Training Group commander (bottom center) welcomes Vice Chief of Staff of the U.S. Air Force Gen. David Allvin (middle center) to the Howard Hughes Operations, or H2O, facility in downtown Las Vegas, Nev., Aug. 28, 2021. The Shadow Operations Center-Nellis, or ShOC-N, is Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. CQ Brown, Jr.’s designated primary Joint All-Domain Command and Control (JADC2) Battlelab for information gathering and disseminations and application testing and development. (U.S. Air Force photo by Lt. Col. David Spitler)
                
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        Vice Chief of Staff of the U.S. Air Force Gen. David W. Allvin is briefed by Capt. Caleb Winningham, Shadow Operations Center-Nellis (ShOC-N) innovation directorate flight commander, on on-boarding emerging capabilities. The ShOC-N is Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. CQ Brown, Jr.’s designated primary Joint All-Domain Command and Control (JADC2), Battlelab for information gathering and disseminations and application testing and development.Vice Chief of Staff of the U.S. Air Force Gen. David W. Allvin is briefed by Capt. Caleb Winningham, Shadow Operations Center-Nellis (ShOC-N) innovation directorate flight commander, on on-boarding emerging capabilities. The ShOC-N is Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. CQ Brown, Jr.’s designated primary Joint All-Domain Command and Control (JADC2), Battlelab for information gathering and disseminations and application testing and development. (U.S. Air Force photo by Lt. Col. David Spitler)
                
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        Vice Chief of Staff of the U.S. Air Force Gen. David Allvin is briefed by Col. Aaron Gibney, 505th Combat Training Group commander, on the 505th Command and Control Wing’s overall mission in support of Joint All-Domain Command and Control (JADC2) efforts. During Allvin’s visit, the wing demonstrated their efforts to build a persistent experimentation ecosystem where anyone could come and put hands-on JADC2 and future battle-management capabilities.Vice Chief of Staff of the U.S. Air Force Gen. David Allvin is briefed by Col. Aaron Gibney, 505th Combat Training Group commander, on the 505th Command and Control Wing’s overall mission in support of Joint All-Domain Command and Control (JADC2) efforts. During Allvin’s visit, the wing demonstrated their efforts to build a persistent experimentation ecosystem where anyone could come and put hands-on JADC2 and future battle-management capabilities. (U.S. Air Force photo by Lt. Col. David Spitler)
                
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VCSAF visits the SHOC-N BattlelabPublished Sept. 15, 2021
                    
                    By Deb Henley
                    
                    
                    505th Command and Control Wing Public Affairs
            **NELLIS AIR FORCE BASE, Nev. (AFNS)  --**Vice Chief of Staff of the U.S. Air Force **Gen. David Allvin** visited the **505th Command and Control Wing’s**Howard Hughes Operations, or H2O, facility in downtown Las Vegas, Aug. 28.
H2O is part of the **805th Combat Training Squadron’s**Shadow Operations Center-Nellis, or **ShOC-N**. ShOC-N is the Air Force’s primary **Advanced Battle Management System** Battlelab for experimentation and incubation of new command and control technologies and development of C2 tactics, techniques, and procedures enabling multi-echelon, multi-domain battle management.
During Allvin’s visit, 505th CCW personnel showcased ShOC-N’s efforts to build a persistent experimentation ecosystem where anyone could come and put hands on future C2 capabilities.
Assessing the collaboration on display, Allvin said, “The value of developing capabilities in a battle laboratory is immeasurable. ShOC-N is future-focused but maintains a connection to the warfighter to ensure they are experimenting and incubating useful capabilities at the speed of relevance.”
The ABMS Battlelab is the intersection of technologists, acquisition, and warfighters for direct, credible, and rapid evolution of capabilities. “It is the persistent, iterative nature of the ShOC-N Battlelab that makes it so valuable,” said Lt. Col. David Spitler, ShOC-N **commander**.
“Every activity has to count,” said Col. Frederick Coleman, 505th CCW commander. “Every day, USAFWC (**U.S. Air Force Warfare Center**) agencies are leading test, experimentation and training of the most advanced capabilities ever seen. Our job is to leverage each opportunity and find ways to use it to advance ABMS. It’s an iterative process that allows us to rapidly test, train, and deliver C2 capability, and the ShOC-N is the nexus of that process.”
The VCSAF’s visit was a joint engagement with **AFWERX**, which is also located in the Howard Hughes complex. AFWERX is instrumental as a model to discover innovative opportunities both from industry and Department of Defense partners and deliver tangible capabilities to warfighters at speed.
AFWERX already played a key role in helping the 505th CCW find and develop partnerships.
“We literally grew up on their [AFWERX] couch for about 18 months,” said Lt. Col. Aaron Sick, ShOC-N director of innovation. “AFWERX has a proven track record of discovering industry and military talent through their workshops and challenges, transitioning innovative ideas into real capabilities.”
Sick continued, “ShOC-N is a great compliment to what AFWERX is already doing.”
“ABMS is expansive,” Spitler said, “but we have clear lines of effort and specific warfighter requirements that partners can target for focused experimentation within the Battlelab ecosystem, and we know AFWERX has a portfolio of opportunities ripe for experimentation.”
Providing a low barrier to entry into the ABMS Battlelab ecosystem is critical. Approximately 70% of the companies working with AFWERX have no prior government experience.
“Our goal is to allow partners to engage with AFWERX and then walk across the atrium and immediately begin experimentation with ShOC-N,” said Maj. Greg Haverkorn, ShOC-N director of systems and communications. “We can provide an unclassified environment with access to warfighters and warfighting data in order to quickly start the maturation process.”
“When ready, ShOC-N can help match product owners with the required cybersecurity and accreditation professionals to move the capability into an appropriate operationally relevant experimentation environment such as the ShOC-N primary Battlelab on **Nellis Air Force Base**,” Haverkorn continued.
The 505th CCW collaborates with the other USAFWC wings and staff,**Air Combat Command**, and Headquarters Air Force to showcase the initial persistent Battlelab concept. The intent is to provide Department of the Air Force leadership a hands-on introduction to the potential of the Battlelab.FS 



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