The Air Force’s next massive force networking demonstration will focus on protecting troops in Europe from incoming missiles and other airborne threats, the service said in a recent notice. The fourth Advanced Battle Management System exercise, slated for February 2021, will pull data from next-generation ...
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Two dozen more companies have joined the Air Force’s Advanced Battle Management System effort to network its aircraft, sensors, and computer systems, the Pentagon said Nov. 4. Nearly 100 contractors are now part of that project, which offers hundreds of billions of dollars for technologies ...
The Army is missing the point. This is not efficient—or stealth.
Lt. Gen. David S. Nahom, USAF deputy chief of staff for plans and programs, speaks with John A. Tirpak about balancing immediate and long-term readiness.
For USAF’s Weapons School, teamwork is the recipe for excellence.
The military needs to rethink the way it develops and approves strikes in combat and possibly restructure component commands as the Air Force-led joint all-domain command and control effort takes root, said Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr. The Advanced Battle ...
About 200 Airmen and four B-1s from Dyess Air Force Base's 9th Expeditionary Bomb Squadron began a Bomber Task Force deployment to Guam this week to back up multilateral training being hosted by Pacific Air Forces, according to a PACAF release. The Texas-based troops and ...
Nearly 18 months out of office, former Air Force Secretary Heather A. Wilson indicated the service has more work to do on the reforms she championed over the course of two years. Wilson, now president of the University of Texas at El Paso, pursued multiple ...
Air Force and Army leaders recently reached an agreement to partner more closely on joint all-domain command and control over the next two years. The services are still scoping out how to pursue a common data standard, and haven’t chosen specific systems or platforms to ...
Watch an adapted version of Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics Will Roper's talk on “Disruptive Agility for a Disruptive World.” Complete transcript included.
Watch Defense Secretary Mark T. Esper's address to the Air Force Association community, which aired on the final day of AFA's virtual Air, Space & Cyber Conference.
This video captures the "JADC2" panel from the Air Force Association's virtual Air, Space & Cyber Conference, during which Lt. Gen. B.J. Shwedo, retired Lt. Gen. William J. Bender, Lt. Gen. Chance Saltzman, and Maj. Gen. Angela Cadwell engaged in a discussion about joint all-domain ...