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Oct. 5, 2023 | By
Hope Hodge Seck
How the Air Force Academy and the Space Force are inspiring future Guardians.
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March 31, 2023 | By
Hope Hodge Seck
The new Blended Retirement System (BRS) is now five years old, and its consequences remain hard to decipher.
Oct. 7, 2022 | By
Hope Hodge Seck
In Sky Warden, AFSOC gains a flexible new hunter-killer.
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May 2, 2022 | By
Hope Hodge Seck
Only about 2 percent of Air Force pilots are Black, and that proportion hasn't increased much in the past three decades. In fighter aviation, the imbalance is even more stark: Just 60 fighter pilots in the entire Air Force are Black, and one is the ...
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April 7, 2022 | By
Hope Hodge Seck
As commercial satellites feed images from Ukraine to U.S. space and intelligence agencies in a historically collaborative effort, Space Force leaders are eager to learn how else they can put the commercial sector to work for the service.
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April 6, 2022 | By
Hope Hodge Seck
In the lead-up to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, "hunt-forward" teams deployed from U.S. Cyber Command to help the Ukrainians harden their networks and identify vulnerabilities—an early defensive play in a conflict that would be dominated by information operations and cyber threats. CYBERCOM also provided remote ...
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March 14, 2022 | By
Hope Hodge Seck
The Air Force is working to develop a future command-and-control system that will anticipate Airmen's needs and use advanced technology and resilient communications to enable faster decision-making. But none of that will replace the person in the loop, a panel of military and industry specialists said.
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March 8, 2022 | By
Hope Hodge Seck
With peer adversaries gaining ground in electromagnetic spectrum warfare, the U.S. military must employ the entire spectrum to protect warfighters and press the advantage, a panel of industry experts said. Speaking at the AFA Warfare Symposium on March 4, the experts in EMS warfare also ...