The Air Force Association’s annual Air & Space Conference and Technology Exposition runs Sept. 14-16, 2015, in National Harbor, Md. It features a range of speakers, including Defense Secretary Ash Carter, Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James, and Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Welsh, as well as many industry leaders. Topics range from the challenges of sequestration to opportunities in artificial intelligence, all focused around aerospace, cyberspace, and the US Air Force. 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 #ASC15.
Just over a year ago, in July 2025, the Air Force established a dedicated office on the Air Staff for communications/cyber functions, separate from the intelligence directorate it had long been attached to. Brig. Gen. Jeffrey A. Phillips, Deputy Chief of Staff for Warfighter Communications and Cyber Systems, recently sat…