Selva Urges DOD to Take Risks

The Defense Department must be willing to take on more “risk” and be more “willing to fail,” said Gen. Paul Selva, Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, on Thursday. Speaking on the importance of innovation in US military...

Military Lags Behind Industry in R&D

Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Paul J. Selva on Thursday called on the Defense Department to regain its lost position of leadership in research and development. In 1996, Selva said, “the military spent 10 times more...

Busy Month for US Aircraft in Afghanistan

July marked the first full month that US aircraft had the authority to target the Taliban in Afghanistan, and that authority resulted in the busiest month of the past year. US aircraft in July dropped 130 bombs in Afghanistan in...

Policing the Bulgarian Airspace

USAF jets will be taking to the skies over Bulgaria in September to assist the NATO partner with air policing for the first time. The two F-15s will join Bulgarian MiG-29s for one week starting on Sept. 9, according to...

The NATO Mission Support Breakdown

While Afghan forces are able to handle the bulk of ongoing missions targeting ISIS and the Taliban, there are still about 20 percent that involve US forces, including one earlier this week that resulted in the death of a US...

Developing Autonomous Systems

One of the Defense Department’s top priorities is the development of technology that enables the “partnership of humans and machines to speed the making of decisions,” said Air Force Gen. Paul Selva, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs, during a...

New Group Keeps Army Jumping

A group activated this summer at Pope Army Airfield, N.C.—the only en route operations group in the continental United States—is overseeing a large increase of joint operations there. The 43rd Air Mobility Operations Group, activated in June, has no aircraft...

Taking USAF Tactics to Singapore

The first three Singaporean weapons instructors graduated from the Singaporean Fighter Weapons Instructor Course at Mountain Home AFB, Idaho, earlier this month. F-15SG pilot Maj. Wang Kee Yong and weapons systems officers Capt. Alex Ong and Capt. Chia Chi Yu...