Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. T. Michael Moseley was knighted during a ceremony at the British Embassy in Washington, D.C. on May 30. It was Queen Elizabeth II who suggested the honor to recognize Moseley’s contributions to US-British relations while he was the commander of the air war in Afghanistan and Iraq during the early days of both campaigns. “It’s really a tribute to the outstanding cooperation between our two great countries and, of course, a tribute to the historic and continuing relationship between the Royal Air Force and the United States Air Force,” Moseley said. Moseley now holds the title of “Knight Commander of the British Empire,” along with Gen. Jimmy Doolittle and Gen. Carl “Tooey” Spaatz.
The Defense Innovation Unit is gearing up for the first flight of its commercially developed hypersonic testbed as soon as the end of February—part of a larger project to quickly increase the cadence of the Pentagon’s hypersonic flight testing and field advanced, high-speed systems and components at scale.
