The Air Force Association’s annual Air Warfare Symposium runs Feb. 24-26, 2016, in Orlando, Fla. It features a range of speakers, including Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James, Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Welsh, leaders of the service’s major commands, and other aviation and aerospace experts. The theme of this year’s conference is “global precision attack.” For up-to-date information from AFA about the conference, click here. Track the conference on social media by following us on Twitter and Facebook or by using #AWS16.
Pentagon Task Force, FAA to Test Counter-Drone Laser
March 7, 2026
The Pentagon’s counter-drone task force announced it would conduct a high-energy laser test with the Federal Aviation Administration less than a month after the use of a military counter-drone laser on the southwest border prompted the FAA to shut down the airspace over El Paso, Texas.