The Air Force plans to use a mix of Contractor Logistics Support and organic maintenance on initial versions of the Long-Range Strike Bomber, with a plan to transition to an all-organic capability “at the appropriate time,” a service spokeswoman said in response to queries from Air Force Magazine. She also said that while the number of people needed to support the LRS-B is “still being evaluated,” the Air Force expects the number to be “in line with the current bomber fleet;” in other words, not a leap forward in maintainability. The program “took into account lessons learned from previous programs into the design concepts,” she noted, and Air Force acquisition chief William LaPlante said last week that B-2 bomber maintainers were included in design discussions.
Air Force Using AI to Plan Storage for Munitions
Nov. 13, 2025
When lawmakers and outside experts turn their attention to how the U.S. military can use of artificial intelligence, they tend to focus on weapons systems—the most consequential and risk-laden use cases—and on generative AI. But behind the scenes, the Air Force is already using machine learning algorithms to help solve…
