The Swarm Carrier would be one of three drone types that Air Force Special Operations Command expects will strengthen a budding initiative to incorporate more autonomous systems in missions.
By Michael MarrowMILSATCOM for the most critical no-fail missions
With multiple nuclear-capable threats and space itself being a contested domain, assured and protected MILSATCOM are more critical than ever before.
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These upgrades will play a central role in the way American and allied forces fight, and are destined to keep them at the vanguard for a long time.
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Air Force Special Operations Command said that “preliminary investigation information” into a Nov. 29 crash that killed eight “indicates a potential materiel failure caused the mishap, but the underlying cause of the failure is unknown at this time.”
By Lee Ferran and Michael Marrow
A senior Defense Ministry official, Taro Yamato, said today that Japan plans to suspend flights of its 14 Ospreys temporarily. A planned training flight in southern Japan was canceled.
By Colin Clark
Lt. Gen. Jim Slife will become the Air Force vice chief — if he can get past a confirmation blockade that has stalled out nominations in Congress.
By Michael Marrow and Aaron Mehta
Long-term, the service still seeks to understand what is actually the root cause of the issue, and “finding and implementing a materiel solution,” according to a spokeswoman.
By Aaron Mehta
Capability exists to simulate the future of kill chains at theater scale
A tool to explore what-if scenarios and tradeoffs at the theater-level faster than traditional analysis.
Notably, Slife called out the need to operate in and around “an island environment that is not serviced by a major fixed operating base runway.”
By Aaron Mehta
“Is it going to be cost effective? That’s why we have several lines of effort early on and there will be plenty of off-ramp [opportunities] along the way to determine if we move forward” said Col. Ken Kuebler, SOCOMs Fixed Wing chief.
By Paul McLeary
“The SOF that we have is not the SOF we will need” for the future, head of Air Force Special Ops Command, Lt. Gen. James Slife, warned today.
By Paul McLeary
The new owners bring venture capital and software expertise to upgrade Area-I’s ALTIUS mini-drone, already a favorite in Army experiments with ‘Air-Launched Effects.’
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
“The whole reason we’re doing this is because the National Defense Strategy talks about the need to do cost effective [counter-terrorism] operations, cost effective irregular warfare,” AFSOC commander Gen. Slife said.
By Paul McLeary
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A modern mechanized military lives or dies by maintenance. But what if a computer could warn you when your weapons and vehicles were about to break, so you could fix them before they ever let you down?
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
Communications, survivable strike, mobility, high-speed vertical lift, and intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities are all on AFSOC’s modernization wish list.
By Theresa Hitchens
