Orlando, February 18, 2010—Improving the Air Force’s ability to monitor objects in space remains an imperative, Gen. Norton Schwartz, Air Force Chief of Staff, told attendees at AFA’s Air Warfare Symposium. Enhanced capabilities in this realm will allow the US to gauge more accurately if the activities of other spacefaring nations are threatening, he said. They would also enable the Air Force to understand better anomalies in its own space systems, he said. An essential part of this space situational awareness entails continuing to foster the resurgence of “space intelligence analytical and collection capabilities,” said Schwartz. But this process will take time as knowledge accumulated over decades by the old generation of intelligence experts transfers to the incoming cadre of specialists, he said.
Active-Duty Airmen only have a few days left to submit an official waist-to-height ratio into the Air Force’s new online application. But the service clarified July 23 that this first body composition measurement is not meant to be scored as part of the new Physical Fitness Readiness Assessment, or PFRA