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        Policy UpdatesNewsroomReoptimizationBIOGRAPHIESAF Senior Leaders      An XQ-58A Valkyrie low-cost unmanned aerial vehicle launches at the U.S. Army Yuma Proving Ground, Ariz., Dec. 9, 2020. The acquisition team – comprised of Air Force Research Laboratory and Air Force Life Cycle Management Center personnel working in conjunction with Eglin Air Force Base, Fla.’s 46th Test Squadron – came together to conduct the historic test.Valkyrie
                        
                        
                        An XQ-58A Valkyrie low-cost unmanned aerial vehicle launches at the U.S. Army Yuma Proving Ground, Ariz., Dec. 9, 2020. The acquisition team – comprised of Air Force Research Laboratory and Air Force Life Cycle Management Center personnel working in conjunction with Eglin Air Force Base, Fla.’s 46th Test Squadron – came together to conduct the historic test. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Joshua King)
                
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        A remote control operator speaks into a radio at the Yuma Proving Grounds, Ariz. Dec 9, 2020. The RTO controlled ax XQ-58A Valkerie during a test flight. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Joshua King)Staff Sgt. Joshua King
                        
                        
                        A remote control operator speaks into a radio at the U.S. Army Yuma Proving Ground, Ariz. during a XQ-58A Valkyrie test flight, Dec. 9, 2020. The operator controlled the aircraft during a test flight where it flew alongside the Air Force F-22 Raptor and F-35A Lightning II for the first time. This integrated test follows a series of gatewayONE ground tests that began during the inaugural Department of the Air Force on-ramp last year in December. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Joshua King)
                
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        A U.S. Air Force F-22 Raptor and F-35A Lightning II fly in formation with the XQ-58A Valkyrie low-cost unmanned aerial vehicle over the U.S. Army Yuma Proving Ground testing range, Ariz., during a series of tests Dec. 9, 2020. This integrated test follows a series of gatewayONE ground tests that began during the inaugural Department of the Air Force on-ramp last year in December.U.S. Air Force
                        
                        
                        A U.S. Air Force F-22 Raptor and F-35A Lightning II fly in formation with the XQ-58A Valkyrie low-cost unmanned aerial vehicle over the U.S. Army Yuma Proving Ground testing range, Ariz., during a series of tests Dec. 9, 2020. This integrated test follows a series of gatewayONE ground tests that began during the inaugural Department of the Air Force on-ramp last year in December. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. James Cason)
                
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        An XQ-58A Valkyrie maintainer pours fuel into the aircraft on a launchpad at the U.S. Army Yuma Proving Ground, Ariz., Dec. 9, 2020. More than 50 team members came together to make the historic flight a safe event. The joint effort included a Marine Corps F-35B variant, an Air Force F-22 Raptor, and an Air Force F-35A variant. The Air Force F-22 and F-35A aircraft flew with the attritableONE platform for the first time.Valkyrie
                        
                        
                        An XQ-58A Valkyrie maintainer pours fuel into the aircraft on a launchpad at the U.S. Army Yuma Proving Ground, Ariz., Dec. 9, 2020. More than 50 team members came together to make the historic flight a safe event. The joint effort included a Marine Corps F-35B variant, an Air Force F-22 Raptor, and an Air Force F-35A variant. The Air Force F-22 and F-35A aircraft flew with the attritableONE platform for the first time. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Joshua King)
                
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        A control-room operator observes a test prior to an XQ-58A Valkyrie launch at the U.S. Army Yuma Proving Ground, Ariz., Dec. 7, 2020. More than 50 team members came together to make the historic flight a safe event. The joint effort included a Marine Corps F-35B variant, an Air Force F-22 Raptor, and an Air Force F-35A variant. The Air Force F-22 and F-35A aircraft flew with the attritableONE platform for the first time.Valkyrie
                        
                        
                        A control-room operator observes a test prior to an XQ-58A Valkyrie launch at the U.S. Army Yuma Proving Ground, Ariz., Dec. 7, 2020. More than 50 team members came together to make the historic flight a safe event. The joint effort included a Marine Corps F-35B variant, an Air Force F-22 Raptor, and an Air Force F-35A variant. The Air Force F-22 and F-35A aircraft flew with the attritableONE platform for the first time. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Joshua King)
                
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gatewayONE and attritableONE test moves joint force one step closer to “IoT.mil,” demonstrates F-22, F-35 first secure bi-directional data sharingPublished Dec. 14, 2020
                    
                    
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            **WASHINGTON (AFNS) --**On Dec. 9, the joint force took another step toward achieving a military Internet of Things when fifth-generation aircraft overcame long standing connectivity limitations to share actionable operational data in their native secure digital “languages” with and through multiple sources for the first time.
This test was the latest demonstration of the transformative warfighting impact of the open architecture underpinning the Advanced Battle Management System.
The joint effort included a Marine Corps F-35B variant and the Air Force **F-22 Raptor** and **F-35A Lightning II** variant flying with an attritableONE XQ-58A Valkyrie for the first time. The primary tests took place at Yuma Proving Ground, Arizona with preparatory tests at **Nellis Air Force Base**, Nevada.
Lt. Col. Kate Stowe, gatewayONE program manager at the **Air Force Lifecycle Management Center**, set out with 18 test objectives and successfully achieved nine.
“Testing is all about pushing the limits of what’s possible, finding out where the toughest challenges are, and adapting creative solutions to overcoming difficult problem sets,” Stowe said. “The real win of the day was seeing the gatewayONE establish a secure two-way translational data path across multiple platforms and multiple domains. That’s the stuff ABMS is all about.”
Fifth-generation fighters are typically limited to communicating with each other and to command and control centers via legacy tactical data connections, not in their native, but incompatible digital “languages” – Multifunctional Advanced Data Link for F-35 and Intra-Flight Data Link for the F-22. Not only can gatewayONE translate between those formats, in this test it moved data that is normally relegated to an operations center or tactical ground node, directly pushing it into the cockpit at the edge of the multi-domain battlespace for the first time.
Additionally, the test pushed the position data of each platform outside of the aircraft’s close-proximity formation through gatewayONE, which enables battle managers on the ground or in the air to better orchestrate operations. The gatewayONE payload also passed tracks or cues from ground operators to both fighters and passed a cue from the F-35A to the F-22 for the first time. These bi-directional communications pathways occurred in the platforms’ native digital “languages” and the data was displayed through the aircrafts’ organic systems.
“The gatewayONE payload really showed what’s possible and helped us take a big step towards achieving (Joint All-Domain Command and Control),” said Lt. Col. Eric Wright, a 59th Test and Evaluation Squadron F-35 pilot. “This critical capability provides additional connections between our advanced fighters and other forces and battle managers across all domains. The future is promising, and gatewayONE will allow the F-22 and F-35 to connect to and feed data sources they've never before accessed. Those future connections will bring additional battlefield awareness into the cockpit and enable integrated fires across U.S. forces.”
Additional successful tests during the week included establishing a communications pathway between the **KC-46 Pegasus** tanker and a ground node using commercial internet routing standards over the Tactical Targeting Network Technology waveform and the F-35B sending full-motion video to a ground controller.
“If fifth-generation platforms are going to be quarterbacks of a joint-penetrating team, we have to be able to communicate with those quarterbacks in an operationally relevant manner and enable data sharing between them, to them, and from them. For years people said it couldn’t be done. Today the team turned another page toward making the impossible possible,” said Preston Dunlap, Air and Space Force’s chief architect. “In just 12 months, the team has opened the door to a world where we can put the power of an operations center into the cockpit at the tactical edge.”
The Dec. 9 flight test included the attritableONE platform, also known as the XQ-58 Valkyrie, a lower-cost, unmanned, aerial vehicle. The rocket-launched Valkyrie successfully conducted a semi-autonomous flight alongside the F-22 and F-35s for the first time. The gatewayONE payload was integrated into the Valkyrie for its maiden voyage with the fifth-generation fighters to conduct an initial test of gateway capabilities from an attritable platform; however, shortly after takeoff, the communications payloads lost connectivity and those test objectives were unable to be accomplished.
The acquisition team – comprised of **Air Force Research Laboratory** and Air Force Life Cycle Management Center personnel working in conjunction with **Eglin Air Force Base**, Florida’s 46th Test Squadron – came together to make this test a success and empower the platforms involved with capability desired by the warfighter and operator.
This integrated test follows a series of gatewayONE ground tests that began during the inaugural Department of the Air Force architecture on-ramp last year in December.
ABMS is the Air Force and Space Force’s priority program to develop the military’s first Internet of Things and is the services’ primary contribution to Joint All-Domain Command and Control, a Defense Department-led effort to securely connect all elements of the U.S. military–every sensor and shooter–across land, air, sea, space and cyberspace.FS 



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