The U.S. Air Force is testing some of major capabilities and concepts—F-35s, Air Task Forces, and Agile Combat Employment—in South Korea this month for the latest iteration of Freedom Shield exercise.
Air Task Force
Air Force Global Strike Command activated its 21st Air Task Force last week at Dyess Air Force Base, Texas, rounding out the full complement of the six pilot program units that will break new ground for the service’s deployments.
Air Combat Command activated three new air task forces this week, bringing the Air Force closer to starting all six of the units that will form the next stage of its deployment model.
The Air Force stood up its first of six Air Task Forces—the 12th Air Task Force—at Scott Air Force Base, Ill., last week, starting the next wave of change for its deployment model.
As the Air Force prepares the first six editions of its Air Task Force deployment concept, the head of the Air Force Culture and Language Center is pitching an idea that he believes will help ATFs with a key element of projecting airpower overseas: a ...
Lt. Gen. Adrian L. Spain, deputy chief of staff for operations, and Brig. Gen. David C. Epperson, director of current operations, spoke with Air & Space Forces Magazine editor-in-chief Tobias Naegele at the AFA Warfare Symposium on Feb. 13, 2024 about Air Task Forces, Combat Wings, and the ...
The Air Force and Space Force rolled out sweeping changes to the services’ organization, manning, readiness, and weapons development Feb. 12 at the AFA Warfare Symposium. The changes aim to ratchet up readiness and gain a warfighting edge in the face of intensifying great power ...
Frank Kendall ordered in September a sweeping review of five lines of effort across the department, seeking to uproot the impediments to current and future readiness.
Change is hard, losing is unacceptable, right? We don’t have a choice about this if we want to win.
As the Department of the Air Force’s sweeping re-optimization review nears its January deadline, the USAF is considering fundamental changes to its major commands. “We’re going to transform the entire Department of the Air Force organizationally to prepare for great power competition within the next quarter,” ...
In an attempt to build more cohesive teams of Airmen, the Air Force will test out a new system for grouping and deploying troops overseas, top service leaders announced last week at AFA’s Air, Space & Cyber Conference. Air Task Forces, or ATFs, are intended to ...
