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Gen. James C. “Jim” Slife

USAF Going ‘Line by Line’ to Slash Sentinel’s Rocketing Costs

Sept. 5, 2024 | By Greg Hadley
Air Force officials are re-examining the infrastructure overhaul that sent costs soaring over plan for the next-generation Sentinel intercontinental ballistic missile upgrade.

US Needs Better Coordination, Cheaper Ways to Counter Drones: Pentagon Officials

May 2, 2024 | By John A. Tirpak
The nation needs a better-coordinated policy for dealing with unmanned aerial systems that threaten domestic bases, Air Force vice chief of staff Gen. James C. Slife told a panel of the Senate Armed Services Committee. He and Pentagon acquisition and sustainment chief William LaPlante co-chair ...

‘We Need to Modernize’ IT at Air Force Depots, Vice Chief Says

May 1, 2024 | By Unshin Lee Harpley
Questioned by lawmakers on the state of the Air Force's maintenance depots, Vice Chief of Staff Gen. James C. "Jim" Slife said April 30 that the service is investing in IT and data infrastructure to better sustain new software-intensive platforms—while acknowledging that there is still ...

New Vice Chief: Air Force Failing to Exploit ‘Decisive Advantage’ Offered by Data

Feb. 29, 2024 | By Shaun Waterman
The Air Force’s cloud-based data lakes are becoming “data swamps,” clogged by huge troves of unstructured, uncatalogued, and therefore effectively unusable data, dumped in there by service elements overwhelmed by the huge task of curating, cutting and cataloging it. That was the message from new ...
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