Preston Dunlap: ‘A Thousand Kill Chains In Your Pocket’

Preston Dunlap: ‘A Thousand Kill Chains In Your Pocket’
Preston Dunlap: ‘A Thousand Kill Chains In Your Pocket’

In part three of our exclusive video interview, Preston Dunlap chats about the remarkable idea of a CAOC in a tablet and how it can help strengthen and make more flexible the kill chain.

Decentralize The Air Force For High-End War: Holmes

Decentralize The Air Force For High-End War: Holmes
Decentralize The Air Force For High-End War: Holmes

AUSA: After a generation of centralized control and absolute air superiority, the US Air Force needs to decentralize to handle high-tech adversaries, the head of Air Combat Command said Wednesday. Top-down direction won’t always work against enemies who can hack or jam our communications networks, Gen. Mike Holmes said. That means we need to devolve…

New DIUX Software Saves Air Force Millions Of Pounds Of Airborne Tanker Gas A Month

New DIUX Software Saves Air Force Millions Of Pounds Of Airborne Tanker Gas A Month
New DIUX Software Saves Air Force Millions Of Pounds Of Airborne Tanker Gas A Month

AFA: The Defense Innovation Unit experimental (DIUx) is working with airmen and DOD civilian software coders to rapidly change the planning and conduct of air operations, Lt. Gen. Jeffrey Harrigian, commander of Air Forces Central Command, told reporters here Tuesday. Over the past few months, Harrigian said, DIUx has helped develop new software used by the Combined…

MDC2: Air Force Works On Huge Command, Control System; Allies Key

MDC2: Air Force Works On Huge Command, Control System; Allies Key
MDC2: Air Force Works On Huge Command, Control System; Allies Key

ORLANDO: Want to defeat an enemy? Get inside his decision cycle. Hammer away at his forces, confuse his command, steal his intelligence. Sun Tzu said most of it ages ago, but it remains true today. The key to such success is, first, understanding what you and the enemy are doing and, second, communicating that understanding to…

Goldfein Bids To Make Air Force Lead For All DoD Space

Goldfein Bids To Make Air Force Lead For All DoD Space
Goldfein Bids To Make Air Force Lead For All DoD Space

CORRECTED: Role of U.S. Space Command CAPITOL HILL: It’s a refrain space warriors have heard before: the Air Force should head space training and operations, and we need to fix space acquisition. “In this light, we are eager to be named the lead service for space,” Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. David Goldfein told the…

F-22, F-35 Outsmart Test Ranges, AWACS

F-22, F-35 Outsmart Test Ranges, AWACS
F-22, F-35 Outsmart Test Ranges, AWACS

CAPITOL HILL: How smart is too smart? When F-35 Joint Strike Fighters flew simulated combat missions around Eglin Air Force Base in Florida, their pilots couldn’t see the “enemy” radars on their screens. Why? The F-35s’ on-board computers analyzed data from the airplanes’ various sensors, compared the readings to known threats, and figured out the…

Rear Adm. Manazir Speaks On Allied Force Transformation, A2AD

Rear Adm. Manazir Speaks On Allied Force Transformation, A2AD
Rear Adm. Manazir Speaks On Allied Force Transformation, A2AD

Recently, Chief of Naval Operations John Richardson drove home the point that using the term Anti-Access Area Denial (A2AD), was too vague as to be useful to define the effort of US and allied forces to deal with peer competitors. “The term ‘denial,’ as in anti-access/area denial is too often taken as a fait accompli,”…

Air Force Leading Way To 3rd Offset: Bob Work

Air Force Leading Way To 3rd Offset: Bob Work
Air Force Leading Way To 3rd Offset: Bob Work

NATIONAL HARBOR: The Pentagon’s biggest advocate of artificial intelligence just spoke to the Air Force Association for over an hour — and he didn’t mention drones. When Deputy Secretary of Defense Bob Work talks about autonomy, he’s much less interested in killer robots than in command and control. The Air Force led the way on…