Sept. 9, 2025 Allies unite in tactical and operational C2 during Bamboo Eagle 25-3 Bamboo Eagle 25-3 united U.S. and allied forces across multiple continents to practice tactical and operational command and control in a contested environment. Led by the U.S. Air Force Warfare Center, the exercise tested joint and coalition responses to complex short-notice threats, sharpening
Aug. 19, 2025 Forging the Fight Together: Synchronizing Joint Operations in Bamboo Eagle 25-3 Bamboo Eagle 25-3 pushed the boundaries of 21st-century mission command, leveraging the Distributed Mission Operations Center, or DMOC, to forge agile, resilient leaders. In a synthetic battlespace, the joint force rehearsed decentralized execution and empowered decision-making to achieve decision
July 11, 2025 Air Force Battle Lab advances the kill chain with AI, C2 Innovation The 805th Combat Training Squadron, or Shadow Operations Center-Nellis, completed another major experiment of 2025, advancing key priorities in human-machine teaming, data convergence, and emerging technologies to sharpen U.S. Air Force and command and control capabilities, Nellis Air Force Base,
June 16, 2025 Air Force DASH sprint pioneers human-machine teaming for faster battle management decisions The Department of the Air Force took a bold step toward future command and control capabilities with the successful completion of its first Decision Advantage Sprint for Human-Machine Teaming, or DASH, experiment, recently held at the Howard Hughes Operations Center, or H2O, in Las Vegas, Nev.
April 25, 2025 C2WAC Goes Global: Largest class to date unites allied warfighters in UK hosted course The Command and Control Warrior Advanced Course was held outside of the United States for the first time. The most recent iteration, which is customarily held at Hurlburt Field, Fla., was held at Royal Air Force Waddington in the United Kingdom and had nearly equal numbers of coalition and U.S.
Feb. 7, 2025 ShOC-N Capstone, Human-Machine Teaming experimentation to optimize the kill chain The 805th Combat Training Squadron, also known as the Shadow Operations Center – Nellis, or ShOC-N, executed its bi-annual capstone event at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada.
Sept. 20, 2024 Bamboo Eagle: ‘Upping our game’ for Great Power Competition Exercise Bamboo Eagle 24-3 integrated U.S. Airmen, Guardians, Sailors, Marines, and allies from Australia and the United Kingdom into a combined force to train for a possible conflict in the era of Great Power Competition. The exercise conducted live-fly operations in the eastern Pacific and a
Sept. 10, 2024 Air Force examines emerging tactics during Bamboo Eagle More than 10,000 personnel from the Department of Defense, the United Kingdom, and Australia participated in exercise Bamboo Eagle 24-3, a combat-representative exercise including operational test and evaluation experts from the 605th Test and Evaluation Squadron. The OT&E experts’ mission was to
Dec. 7, 2023 Combined US, coalition force increase combat effectiveness during Indo-Pacific Virtual Flag exercise For the first time in the fourteen-year history of the Virtual Flag: Coalition exercise, integrated forces from the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, and Canada fought against a peer adversary in a virtual Indo-Pacific area of responsibility. To increase combat effectiveness, the combined
Aug. 30, 2023 Air Force, Army Battle Labs work with DARPA on ASTARTE, new C2 capability The 805th Combat Training Squadron’s Shadow Operations Center-Nellis, also known as the U.S. Air Force’s Advanced Battle Management System Battle Lab, recently experimented with joint partners that helped evolve a new joint airspace management and joint fires capability at Nellis Air Force Base,