The Air Force nuclear enterprise—after missteps two years ago and a year’s worth of reinvigoration, reorganization, and re-focus—is “not out of the woods” yet, Chief of Staff Gen. Norton Schwartz said Sept. 15. Addressing AFA’s Air & Space Conference, Schwartz said, “It took years for atrophy to set in,” so a year’s worth of fixes won’t immediately correct course. “We can’t be complacent now,” Schwartz said, promising to keep the pressure on until the Air Force’s competence and credibility in nuclear activities is unquestioned by Pentagon leadership and the American people. Talking with reporters later, Schwartz said the service has yet to implement a myriad of further, smaller corrective actions, some as simple as shifting nuclear documentation from paper-based to digital format. “We can do better,” he said. “It ain’t over yet.”
In a brief email Nov. 6, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth laid out a new Cyber Force Generation plan, meant to give U.S. Cyber Command more authority over the employment, training, and equipping of U.S. troops preparing for and waging cyber war. Former Air Force officers and national security officials say the…
