Air Combat Command has expanded its ability to provide the full spectrum of adversarial tactics for training scenarios, activating the 57th Information Aggressor Squadron under the 57th Adversary Tactics Group at Nellis AFB, Nev. Among the new unit’s missions will be to “identify vulnerabilities and exploit weaknesses in the command and control infrastructure of a base,” said Lt. Col. Lisa Onaga, 57th ATG deputy commander.
A new Air Force plan for how many fighters it needs in the next decade marks a sharp upturn from what it thought it needed just seven years ago. But analysts worry that the aspirational plan now in Congress' hands doesn’t make a tight enough connection to national strategy.
