Mitchell Institute

AFGSC’s New Plan to Deploy Bombers Across the Globe

April 29, 2020 | By Brian W. Everstine
Air Force Global Strike Command will regularly rotate a small number of bombers to the Pacific and Middle East theaters to maintain a regular deterrence presence and to conduct combat operations as needed, but it will no longer operate out of bases such as al-Udeid ...

DOD’s End Strength Takes Hit Because of Coronavirus

April 28, 2020 | By Brian W. Everstine
The services will likely fall short of their end-strength goals this year because of the impacts of the new coronavirus outbreak, though positive trends in recruitment have remained, the Pentagon’s head of personnel said April 28. Matt Donovan, under secretary of defense for personnel and ...

NRO, SPACECOM Hash Out Roles in Space

April 24, 2020 | By Rachel S. Cohen
The National Reconnaissance Office and U.S. Space Command are still shaping a new concept of operations to settle the question of who should defend the various pieces of the military space enterprise, the NRO’s deputy director said during an April 24 Mitchell Institute for Aerospace ...

Microelectronics Bump Hypersonics as DOD’s Top Tech Priority

April 22, 2020 | By John A. Tirpak
The Pentagon has shifted its top priority from hypersonics to microelectronics, because the latter technology is an element of almost all weapon systems, and the U.S. is "in danger" of losing superiority in this area, said Mark Lewis, the head of defense research and engineering ...