The Air Force’s Office of Scientific Research is cooperating with Binghamton University on a research project that investigators expect to enhance the “availability and resilience” of command and control networks—ensuring “an operator’s continuous access to battlefield information,” according to Binghamton professor Eva Wu. Wu is leading the New York university team that will receive approximately $100,000 for the two-year project titled “Highly Available C2 Supporting Systems for Air Operation.”
Lt. Gen. Douglas A. Schiess will be nominated by President Donald Trump as the next Chief of Space Operations, the service’s top uniformed leader, people familiar with the matter told Air & Space Forces Magazine.