The Air Force manpower and personnel chief, Lt. Gen. Roger Brady, says that the Air Force is halfway through “the pissed off stage” for its latest personnel drawdown. He means that airmen are coming to grips with the latest major personnel cuts. The Air Force had planned to eliminate 40,000 slots over the next five years, but has recently advanced that from 2011 to 2009. (Read more about personnel cuts from Brady’s AFA Air & Space Conference remarks here.)
A top Pentagon tech official called on industry this week to help the military develop “lighter, more efficient” directed energy weapons designed to go on aircraft and conduct special operations missions or down drones—areas where the Air Force’s directed energy efforts have been quiet as of late.