The keynote addresses from the Air Force and Space Force chiefs are highlights of AFA’s major conferences, and the 2022 AFA Warfare Symposium was no exception. But this year’s event featured a unique twist: Air Force Chief Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr. and Chief of ...
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USAF is ill-prepared to absorb combat losses in a peer fight.
RAF Lakenheath to Get F-35s; New VCJCS Admiral Grady Sworn In; MacDill is Next F-35 Base; Pentagon Outlines New "Extremist" Activity Rules; and more ...
The B-21 will take its first flight and new weapons will face critical tests.
A collection of quotes on air power and national security issues.
The Pentagon battles its own inertia to make progress in artificial intelligence.
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.
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.
The Defense Department’s cyber challenges are enormous. Systems increasingly rely on software code, much of it incorporating open-source components. Growing dependence on cloud-based systems to host databases and computer workloads also expanded the Pentagon’s attack surface. Conventional cyber defenses based on keeping hackers out of ...
The Air and Space Forces rated “weak” ratings from the Heritage Foundation’s 2022 Index of U.S. Military Strength.
After nearly 15 years in development and a $4 billion Air Force investment, two brand-new fighter engines are in test.
