Officials at the 45th Space Wing at Patrick AFB, Fla., were to meet with the Air Force’s smart operations boss, Maj. Gen. Paul Selva, to discuss the wing’s reorganization efforts toward paring down the current three-year commercial launch approval process for Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. John Kelly of Florida Today reports that Brig. Gen. Susan Helms, 45th SW commander, believes the wing may be able to reduce that process to one year, making the Cape more competitive.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth this week released strategies meant to focus the Pentagon’s “alphabet soup” of innovation organizations and proliferate artificial intelligence—moves that experts say could provide the structure needed to make the military’s efforts to integrate and field new technology more effective.

