“In my mind, we want to get something a lot closer to mixed martial arts—you have people that are fighting one another, they’re not thinking."
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The U.S. has consulted with allies regarding its ongoing Nuclear Posture Review and will continue to do so.
AFRL’s realignment is finally complete. Andrew Williams, an 18-year veteran of AFRL’s Space Vehicles Directorate, will be the first full-time permanent deputy technology executive officer (D-TEO) for space science and technology.
Under the new research partnership, the Department of the Air Force and university jointly decided on 10 research projects to focus on.
China is clearly setting the stage for a fait accompli coercive takeover of Taiwan.
Winding down to the end of 2021 and looking forward to the year ahead gives us an opportunity to count our blessings and take note of what ails us.
The Space Force is luring would-be pilots at the Air Force Academy to consider an alternative path shaping the future of a new domain.
Russia’s ASAT test rattled the world. The Space Force was already working on solutions.
Chronically high operating costs might be tamed with a new deal. A new sustainment contract between the F-35 Joint Program Office (JPO) and Lockheed Martin, inked in September, will give the company a chance to bring down operating costs over the next three years.
For 32 years, Mason Mathews Patrick (West Point, 1886) was a brilliant though somewhat obscure member of the Army Corps of Engineers.
Al Maggini, who completed 35 bombing missions as a B-17 navigator with the Eighth Air Force in World War II, turned 106 recently.
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