According to Stars and Stripes, the Air Force Weather Agency has ended operation of a high-frequency radio system to collect weather data. The agency, which now considers the collection method too costly, has shuttered the last Global Weather Intercept Program operated by the 374th Communications Squadron, Yokota AB, Japan.
The Pentagon needs a Digital Command and a Digital Warfare Corps, along with other changes, to take advantage of critical new technologies, according to a think tank founded by former Google CEO and Chairman Eric Schmidt.
