USAF promotes its first airmen to E-8, the new senior master sergeant supergrade established by Congress under Public Law 85-422 (May 20, 1958).
The long-standing method for communicating data down from space via radio frequencies has the potential to create deadly data bottlenecks that could slow and stymie future operations, according to a new report from AFA’s Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies. The report makes the case for combining RF with optical communications…