Preston Dunlap, the Department of the Air Force’s first-ever chief architect officer, is set to leave the Pentagon in the coming weeks, he confirmed in a lengthy LinkedIn post—and he has a long list of recommendations for those coming after him on how to combat ...
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It’s time for military tech to catch up with military needs. The call was for a new intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance capability.
The U.S. can’t afford to postpone modernization in a tri-polar nuclear world.
More than eight months after Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III signed off on the Defense Department’s strategy for joint all-domain command and control, the Pentagon has an implementation plan for that strategy—and an unclassified version of the strategy for the public to see.
The Air Force is working to develop a future command-and-control system that will anticipate Airmen's needs and use advanced technology and resilient communications to enable faster decision-making. But none of that will replace the person in the loop, a panel of military and industry specialists said.
Brig. Gen. Jeffery D. Valenzia, Department of the Air Force Advanced Battle Management System cross-functional team lead, moderates a discussion on joint all-domain command and control with Ron Fehlen, vice president and general manager of Air Force Programs, Broadband Communications Systems, L3Harris Technologies; James Dorrell, vice ...
If Lockheed Martin wins the Air Force’s upcoming KC-Y tanker competition, the jets will be built in the U.S.
Foreign advances and U.S. neglect have realigned the electromagnetic battlefield. Here’s how USAF is fighting back.
The one-star taking over data and artificial intelligence for the Department of the Air Force knows what to prioritize in his new Pentagon job in part thanks to his experience outside the military. In the business world, “the ability to make decisions is the critical ...
Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall warned of putting too much emphasis on hypersonics just because China is advancing in that area, saying hypersonic missiles are better suited to China's strategy and that USAF has yet to determine the right munitions mix for the future. He ...
To achieve the military’s vision of a totally networked multi-domain force, the Air Force must merge its enterprise IT networks, which join the computers on people’s desks and the smartphones in their pockets, with its aerial networks, which connect the sensors and weapons systems on ...
A pair of Pentagon officials working on joint all-domain command and control say an effort is needed to address “a lack of synchronization” on the project across the services—and to potentially expand cooperation. One of the major challenges to interoperability, a policy paper contends, has ...