Former
Army division commander Barry McCaffrey said March 12 the Air Force ought to be in charge of coordinating and integrating the use of unmanned aerial vehicles. “I think it is patently absurd to not see that airspace ought to be integrated in a joint manner,” McCaffrey said at an Air Force-sponsored defense symposium on Capitol Hill. “There ought to be a single agency doing it,” setting direction both technologically and doctrinally. The Army thinks UAVs should be slaved to division commanders, but “it would be completely stupid to block out huge pieces of airspace, because … the head of [a division] wants to fly Predator overhead,” McCaffrey asserted. “I do not understand why we cannot have a joint commander—probably Air Force—do that.”
Air Force Eyes More Uses for AI—with Guardrails
May 7, 2025
The Air Force and other military services are deploying artificial intelligence tools in their IT networks and Security Operations Centers where personnel monitor cyber threats, officials said May 6—but they are leveraging the emerging technology cautiously even as some say it is ready to transform the very nature of warfare.