The exchange program is flourishing, at least for Arizona Air National Guard pilot Lt. Col. David Stine. He has been in the Netherlands for three years teaching Dutch airmen how to fly the F-16 in an operational environment. The learning process is not all one way. Stine says the Dutch have developed “some interesting” procedures in their F-16s that he thinks might work well in USAF.
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.
