Watch Air Force Maj. Gen. Andrew J. Gebara, director of strategic plans, programs, and requirements at Headquarters Air Force Global Strike Command; USAF Brig. Gen. Heath A. Collins, program executive officer for weapons and director of the Armament Directorate at the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center; James Weber, senior scientist for hypersonics at the Air Force Research Laboratory; Michael White, principal director of hypersonics in the Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Research & Engineering; and moderator Michael R. Gregg, director of the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Aerospace Systems Directorate, take part in the “Mission Domain Live Engagement—Hypersonics” session from AFA’s 2021 virtual Aerospace Warfare Symposium.
The Air Force’s airlift fleet is in desperate need of modern connectivity, spare parts, and other innovations to keep going amid growing demand and modernization plans still in their infancy, according to a former senior leader and a new research paper from AFA’s Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies.
