Airmen can apply to become warrant officers in cybersecurity or information technology from April 25, through May 31, the Air Force announced. From June 24-28, a selection board will pick up to 60 candidates for the eight-week Warrant Officer Training School (WOTS) at Maxwell Air ...
Within the next nine months, the Air Force expects to have warrant officers in its ranks for the first time since the 1980s, said Alex Wagner, assistant secretary of the Air Force for manpower and reserve affairs.
The top enlisted leader in the Air Force said the branch’s first batch of new warrant officers since 1959 is due to be selected this summer, with the first class starting later this year.
The Space Force awarded Boeing’s space division a $439 million contract to build and launch the next installment of its Wideband Global Satellite Communications (WGS) fleet. Expected to finish by Jan. 31, 2029, the WGS-12 satellite is part of an effort to provide better communications ...
The Air Force identified the Airman who died after setting himself on fire in front of the Israeli Embassy on Feb. 25 was Senior Airman Aaron James Bushnell, a cyber defense operations specialist assigned to the 70th Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Wing.
Negotiations on the Air Force's purchase of two E-7 Wedgetail air battle management aircraft have hit bumps over cybersecurity and USAF-specific capabilities, service and industry officials said.
The Air Force plan to bring back warrant officers will be limited to Airmen in the information technology and cyber career fields for the foreseeable future as the service evaluates the outcomes of the effort, Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. David W. Allvin said ...
When it comes to cybersecurity in space organizations, everyone has heard the statement, “Bake it in, don’t bolt it on.” The real question is, “How?” There’s a straightforward answer: good cybersecurity = good systems engineering. For starters, cybersecurity artifacts = systems engineering...
The Space Force and the Pentagon have put considerable effort into making proliferating satellite constellations to make them more resilient against attack, but the ground stations and networks that communicate with those satellites pose a “backdoor” risk through which adversaries could potentially attack space capability, ...
Senior U.S. military and civilian leaders expressed concerns about foreign data collection and disinformation as cybersecurity threats at the Reagan National Defense Forum. "I am terrified of what a regime can do once it gains control of information with modern tools," Secretary of the Air ...
The Government Accountability Office found significant deficiencies in the Department of Defense's cyber incident reporting practices, deficiencies the GAO said prevent DOD from fully understanding and preventing cyber breaches, according to a report to Congress. The GAO also said DOD lacks appropriate practices for notifying ...
As the Department of Defense (DoD) pursues its digital modernization strategy, and innovative technologies continue to enable the USAF to maintain domain superiority, Google Cloud is emerging as an important strategic partner.