Air Force acquisition boss Will Roper on Sept. 10 made the case for closer collaboration between military services on artificial intelligence, saying the Pentagon must get the groundwork right in order to successfully expand so-called “smart” information technology across the department. “To really make AI ...
C4ISR & Networks
The Air Force has to change the way it thinks, trains, and ultimately fights, including shedding a “geographical mindset,” to win the new wars of the information age and maximize the value of combining cyber capabilities, electromagnetic warfare, and information operations. That was the takeaway ...
U.S. and European military forces will try to push the boundaries of how the alliance responds in the face of air and missile threats during the “Astral Knight” exercise this month. The second annual Air Force-led exercise hopes to mirror the Pentagon’s broader push to ...
More than 1,600 personnel, 60 companies, over a dozen aircraft, and dozens of radars and sensors came together for a massive Air Force-led event that utilized everything from boots on the ground to satellites in space to test how the service expects to fight a ...
The National Guard will conduct the 2020 edition of its annual Cyber Shield Exercise completely online in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. “The mission of Cyber Shield is to develop, train, and exercise cyber forces in the areas of computer network internal defensive measures and ...
Some see a need for revisions, but leaders aren’t there—yet.
Gen. John E. Hyten, Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, speaks with John A. Tirpak about strategic requirements, roles and missions, budget trades, space, and the industrial base.
New CSAF, CMSAF; DOD leaving Germany?; F-15EX basing; Space Force doctrine revealed; Hack-a-Sat; and more ...
The upcoming Advanced Battle Management System experiment will have so much activity in so many places the heads of U.S. Space Command and U.S. Northern Command will be hard-pressed to make sense of it all. And, that's the point, USAF acquisition executive Will Roper said ...
