Technology Horizons Paper Released: The Air Force on Wednesday issued Technology Horizons, the vision document that charts the service’s science and technology goals and priorities out to 2030. It highlights technologically achievable breakthroughs in that timeframe to increase the effectiveness of the Air Force, and, in the process, the joint US military fighting force. Among the many future concepts that would be possible with these breakthroughs is a reusable prompt theater-range intelligence-surveillance-reconnaissance/strike system for engaging high-value, time-critical targets from standoff distances. The 79-foot-long air vehicle features combined-cycle propulsion (rockets and ram/scramjet) capable of Mach 6 flight. The vehicle has a range of 5,000 nautical miles at Mach 6 while carrying a 2,000-pound payload, “permitting alternating flights between Diego Garcia and Guam with runway landings,” states the work. Werner Dahm, Air Force chief scientist, unveiled Technology Horizons to reporters last week. (Technology Horizons full document; caution, very large file.)
The Department of the Air Force is limiting medical shaving profiles to a maximum of six months, down from the previous limit of five years, and will soon require Airmen and Guardians with profiles issued in the last 10 months to be reevaluated as part of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s…
