The Space Force hopes to finish calibrating and operationalize its newest weather satellite this fall, the head of Space Systems Command’s space sensing directorate said. Beyond that, Col. Robert Davis hinted that the future of space-based environmental monitoring may largely come from commercial satellites and ...
C4ISR & Networks
The Air Force may be inviting catastrophe by neglecting information warfare, an emerging domain that service officials say is fundamental to air operations, according to a new report published July 30 by the RAND Corporation, a federally-funded think tank.
Tim Grayson, who heads the Department of the Air Force's new Integrated Capabilities Office, has a mandate to tear up the department's acquisition playbook in order to get new technologies into warfighter hands more quickly, he explained July 31.
The Department of the Air Force officially established the new Integrated Capabilities Office last week, completing one of the first of two dozen moves announced in February to “re-optimize" the Air and Space Forces for Great Power Competition with China.
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The Air Force achieved a milestone in May by testing out a new system for controlling high volumes of small unmanned aircraft systems (sUAS) in military airspace.
The Department of the Air Force faces significant hurdles in implementing the Pentagon’s latest cybersecurity approach, dubbed Zero Trust, and will fail altogether if it continues to lag on key issues, according to its own strategy document.
A pair of chief information officers for Pentagon organizations argued for a more practical approach to artificial intelligence focused on things like streamlining organizational tasks across the Defense Department.
As the Department of the Air Force and the broader Pentagon plan out billions of dollars in spending to upgrade and modernize nuclear command, control, and communications, there are natural opportunities to build on work already done for the sweeping joint all-domain command and control ...
