Will the Air Force become executive agent for unmanned aerial vehicles and, as some lawmakers would have it, sole proprietor of fixed-wing aircraft? Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Michael Moseley says he’s “happy to let [the discussion] play out” within the Defense Department. Moseley told reporters at the Pentagon on Tuesday that he’s having “cordial discussions” with the other services on the UAV issue and “working our way through on this” with the Joint Requirements Oversight Council. As for the airlift aspect—the Army wants to maintain its own intratheater fixed-wing fleet—Moseley noted that “this is not the first time” in the past few years that lawmakers have suggested a new roles and missions hash-out. Moseley declined to say whether USAF should get the sole duty, but noted that airlift is, among other things, “what we do.”
The Space Force may establish a combatant component in Japan soon, Chief of Space Operations Gen. B. Saltzman said in a news conference in Tokyo on Sept. 25. According to multiple media reports, Saltzman said setting up a new unit in Japan represents the "next phase" in joint initiatives aimed at…