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Airman For Life

April 25, 2020
CyberPatriot’s Cyber Education Literary Series releases a new book and the Air Force Association announces its StellarXplorers VI 2020 National Champions.

NRO, SPACECOM Hash Out Roles in Space

April 24, 2020 | By Rachel S. Cohen
The National Reconnaissance Office and U.S. Space Command are still shaping a new concept of operations to settle the question of who should defend the various pieces of the military space enterprise, the NRO’s deputy director said during an April 24 Mitchell Institute for Aerospace ...

Microelectronics Bump Hypersonics as DOD’s Top Tech Priority

April 22, 2020 | By John A. Tirpak
The Pentagon has shifted its top priority from hypersonics to microelectronics, because the latter technology is an element of almost all weapon systems, and the U.S. is "in danger" of losing superiority in this area, said Mark Lewis, the head of defense research and engineering ...

Space Force Refining Doctrine, Deterrence Documents

April 7, 2020 | By Rachel S. Cohen
The Space Force is working on its capstone space doctrine publication as well as a new deterrence strategy to shape its way forward, Chief of Space Operations Gen. Jay Raymond said in an April 7 discussion with AFA’s Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies. New doctrine ...