In a new review of the nation’s ballistic missile defense program, Congressional Research Service analysts say the data on flight test efforts to develop a national missile defense system is “mixed and ambiguous.” There is no conclusive evidence of a learning curve from more than two decades of testing, the report states. And, CRS believes tests lack realism. What is its ultimate conclusion on the efficacy of the kinetic hit-to-kill concept—which it says has consumed most of the $100 billion spent on missile defense since the mid-1980s—it doesn’t have one because it would be “ambiguous at this juncture.” Ah, thanks.
The Air Force plans to offer virtual enlisted Foundations courses Airmen can take at their convenience as part of a larger effort to modernize enlisted professional military education, or EPME.