Each service has unique problems to solve and billions invested in legacy systems. “I just can’t throw away everything we own — nor can the Air Force — and start over,” Gen. Mike Murray, head of Army Futures Command, says. “How does the Air Force architecture integrate with the Army architecture, with the Navy architecture?”
By Theresa HitchensHow AI and UX/UI are transforming defense operations
Many operations are experiencing some degree of data automation or AI enablement, and the usability of that data is key to decision making.
“I would argue, that’s the tax. If you want airpower, if you want space power, then you have to be able to defend,” Lt. Gen. Joseph Guastella, Air Force deputy chief of staff for operations, told the Mitchell Institute today.
By Theresa Hitchens
Joint All-Domain Command & Control “will fundamentally change how we fight as a nation, and will change how we organize, train and equip,” Air Force director of operational capabilities Maj. Gen. Dawn Dunlop says.
By Theresa Hitchens
“The business case is a naïve bet on out-year operating cost savings – that’s an act the Hill has seen before, and it never pays off,” independent analyst Rebecca Grant says of the Digital Century Series concept.
By Theresa Hitchens
“All of the services are pursuing new long-range strike capabilities today, kind of like little kids chasing a soccer ball, and someone needs to ask which investments will maximize our nation’s long-range strike warfighting potential,” said Mitchell Institute’s Mark Gunzinger.
By Theresa Hitchens
“We’re not trying to fight for each other’s money,” says Gen. Charles Brown.
By Theresa Hitchens
How L3Harris is empowering the U.S. Space Force to stay ahead
How cutting-edge technology from L3Harris is enabling rapid data processing—and faster, more informed decisions in space defense operations.
“What I’m really trying to do is maximize my capability,” Air Force Chief of Staff Charles Brown says.
By Theresa Hitchens
“[T]here is a difference in how aggressively the Navy is pursuing JADC2 compared to the Army and Air Force,” Bryan Clark, Navy expert at the Hudson Institute, says.
By Theresa Hitchens
The Army and Air Force are still “defining the relationship” between TITAN and the Air Force’s Advanced Battle Management System (ABMS), an Army spokesperson says.
By Theresa Hitchens
“Gen. Brown” – the Air Force Chief of Staff – “and I are both committed to making this happen,” Army Chief of Staff Gen. James McConville tells Breaking Defense. “It starts at the top.”
By Theresa Hitchens
“We absorb more data that we can process, that’s just a non-negotiable fact,” says Gen. Mark Kelly.
By Theresa Hitchens “I want to go fast. I want to go fast. I want to go fast,” says CSAF Gen. Charles Brown about revamping the Air Force to meet Russian and Chinese threats.
By Theresa Hitchens
“His greatest challenge will be to build the coalition in Washington, and particularly on Capitol Hill, that will support new ways of rapidly developing capabilities,” says former Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson.
By Theresa Hitchens
If aerospace titan Lockheed Martin gets to merge with the nation’s last provider of solid rocket motors, Aerojet Rocketdyne, it will do irreparable harm, argues retired Rear Adm. Don Loren in this op-ed.
By Don Loren