Lockheed Aims For Laser On Fighter By 2025
How do you keep a laser focused on a target moving at hundreds of miles per hour? The answer is crucial to Lockheed lasers being fitted on Army trucks and Air Force fighters over the next few years.
IT ‘Backbone’ Top Priority For AFMC’s Digitization Drive: Bunch
"I really want industry feedback" about how to improve AFMC's plans for incorporating digital engineering into its operations across the board, said Bunch.
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Faster propulsion R&D for modern airpower
As aircraft shrink, threats expand, and technology accelerates, aircraft engines must iterate along with the threats.
Ray Wants ARRW ‘Soonest’ For B-52, B-1
Combatant Commanders for European Command and Indo-Pacific Command see bombers with hypersonic capabilities as "incredibly, incredibly valuable," says Gen. Timothy Ray.
Cyber Attack Most Likely Space Threat: Maj. Gen. Whiting
"We know that cyber attack is where we are most likely to face the enemy in space," said Space Force deputy commander Maj. Gen. Stephen Whiting.
Esper Signals Importance Of All Domain & ABMS At AFA
The verbal pat on the back by the Defense Secretary at the biggest Air Force event of the year signals the program's high priority for DoD writ large.
Secret NGAD Fighter Flies, Sets Records, Raises Lot Of Questions
"All I can say is that the NGAD test flights have been amazing -- records have been broken," Will Roper says.
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Data overload threatens decisionmakers as autonomy expands
Reducing cognitive overload on warfighters while improving “time to trust” for autonomous systems is a matter of design.
Air Force To Train ‘Lead Wings’ For Major Wars; First Test Next Month
Instead of sending individual squadrons to the Middle East, the newly created 15th Air Force wants to train entire wings together for rapid deployment against Russia, China and other “near peers.”
Space Chief Targets Red Tape To Speed New Tech
"If we get this right, we will be the envy of the other services, because we're not tied to business of the past," says Space Force CSO Gen. Jay Raymond.
New Air Combat Commander Kelly Wants AI ASAP
"We absorb more data that we can process, that's just a non-negotiable fact," says Gen. Mark Kelly.
Tankers, Transports Need Real-Time Threat Data To Survive: AMC
As Air Mobility Command looks to connect its aircraft to high-speed battle networks like ABMS, it is still struggling to get its KC-46 tankers working properly.
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Keeping sensitive information safe in a new AI era
Why edge and endpoint security can’t be an afterthought.
Details Still Scant On Trump’s German Plans
"We are in the planning stages at this point," Gen. Jeffrey Harrigian, commander, Air Forces in Europe/Africa, told reporters today.
CSAF Brown Mulls Streamlining Of Air Force Commands; Barrett Announces ‘e’ Aircraft
"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.
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The B-52 Is Aiming For Its Seventh Decade Of Service; The USAF Has New Engine Requirements To Make It Possible
In this Viewpoint from Rolls-Royce North America, Craig McVay, senior vice president of strategic campaigns and retired Marine Corps fixed-wing aviator, discusses how the company is bringing advanced technology and support to the USAF B-52 re-engining program.
US, Allies Agree On Threats In Space But Struggle With Messaging
"I would say that it's not the fact, in itself, that we have Space Forces or Space Commands which is concerning. It is what you do with this," says Maj. Gen. Michel Friedling, first commander of France's new Space Command.