The Air Force should place greater emphasis on exercising and training for long range kill chains right now, rather than waiting for new technologies to make things easier, industry executives and former Air Force officers said at AFA’s Air, Space & Cyber Conference.
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Industry executives poised to compete for the Pentagon’s behemoth homeland missile defense initiative, Golden Dome, said the biggest risk to the project’s success is not technical but bureaucratic in nature.
Getting Air Force readiness back where it needs to be—something new Secretary Troy E. Meink has quickly made one of his top priorities—will take parts, flying hours, maintainers, and new aircraft. But even if the service fills the funding accounts for those things in its ...
Air & Space Forces Magazine Editor-in-Chief Tobias Naegele visited Veterans Healthcare at AFA’s 2025 Air, Space & Cyber Conference and spoke to the organization’s founder, Taylor Miller, about how his team helps veterans and retirees navigate the often confusing world...
The Department-Level Exercise series, a massive wargame held across the Pacific this summer, taught Air Force leaders they need to pre-position supplies and delegate decisions to be effective in an Indo-Pacific fight.
Front Door, the one-stop shop for companies and contractors to introduce themselves to Space Systems Command, is getting a rebrand and a leg-up, becoming the first point of contact for the whole service, Space Force leaders said.
Defense Department officials are engaged in “active debate” over the future of the Space Force’s data transport architecture and hope to have a decision on the way ahead in time for the fiscal 2027 budget’s release next year.
The head of Air Force Special Operations Command said he has “complete confidence” in the safety of the CV-22 Osprey despite a delayed upgrade to the tiltrotor aircraft’s gearbox following a fatal November 2023 crash that temporarily grounded the fleet.
After more than a year of preparation, a once-obscure Air Force program office will on Oct. 1 assume management of a key effort to network forces from every military service in near real time, culminating an expansion that has placed it at the center of ...
