The Air Force Association’s annual Air Warfare Symposium runs March 1-3, in Orlando, Fla. It features a range of speakers, including acting Air Force Secretary Lisa Disbrow, Chief of Staff Gen. David Goldfein, leaders of the service’s major commands, and other aviation and aerospace experts. The theme of this year’s conference is “C2 and fusion warfare.” 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 #AWS17.
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…