INSIDE THE CAOC

March 28, 2024 | By Chris Gordon
The CAOC is the Air Force nerve center in the Middle East, responsible for planning and executing air operations across the U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) area of operations.
Senior officers, military retirees, and even members of Congress field hundreds of complaints annually from applicants who feel wronged by what they see as a random and inconsistent system.

WORLD: Space

Jan. 26, 2024
WORLD: Space: Space Command reaches FOC; New Space Force Exercise, Red Skies; Space Planes most watched on orbit; SDA getting 18 more transport layer satellites.
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.

Letters

Jan. 26, 2024
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The CCA is envisioned as an uncrewed, relatively low-observable aircraft that can escort or coordinate with crewed aircraft, performing missions such as electronic warfare, defense suppression, as a communications node or as a flying extra magazine of weapons.
There is no real guidebook for aircrews on how to adjust their body clock and their circadian rhythm to perform on a different shift. Each individual is trying to navigate that on their own without guidance.
We’re trying to articulate a requirement to the Space Force that we need to be able to have sustained space maneuver.

MEET THE NEW CHIEF

Jan. 26, 2024 | By Chris Gordon
He’s always got a mind on the future and making sure that the decisions we make today aren’t trapped in the environment of today.

Verbatim

Jan. 26, 2024
A collection of quotes on airpower, space power, and national security issues.
Having focused the services’ modernization efforts around seven Operational Imperatives designed to accelerate the injection of new capabilities into the force, Kendall is now setting his sights on organizational impediments to change.