Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. T. Michael Moseley said he’s going to become more of a hard-liner about acquisition programs that “spiral out of control.” In an address to the American Enterprise Institute in Washington Tuesday, Moseley said that if there were “exponential growth” in the size or cost of a program, his impulse would be to “kill it.”
A top Pentagon tech official called on industry this week to help the military develop “lighter, more efficient” directed energy weapons designed to go on aircraft and conduct special operations missions or down drones—areas where the Air Force’s directed energy efforts have been quiet as of late.