Air Warfare, Pentagon

Who’s who in Air Force acquisition, and new surface Navy tech

The Weekly Break Out digs into the Air Force's alphabet soup and visits the annual Surface Navy Association expo.

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What’s in a name? Here’s who the Air Force has tapped to be program acquisition executives as the Pentagon rebrands its program executive officers. Then, The Weekly Break Out tours the show floor at the Surface Navy Association’s 2026 conference for a peek at an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer, a solar-powered maritime drone, a floating combat hospital and more.