Discussing Israel’s protections for civilians in its bombing campaign of Gaza, Air Force Lt. Gen. Alexus Grynkewich said that after observing an Israeli strike cell in late 2023, Jerusalem’s forces were “making a bona fide effort to adhere to the law of armed conflict.”
By Michael MarrowWith AI and computer vision, almost any platform can be autonomous
The use of computer vision and perceptive autonomy can have a profound impact on speeding the Observe, Orient, Decide and Act (OODA) loop.
“Do we share data into a central hub where it becomes anonymous, where you don’t know where the source came from, but then you trust the output?” asked AFCENT Deputy Commander Brig. Gen. David Mineau.
By Michael Marrow
Lt. Gen. Alexus Grynkewich said the Pentagon’s new Replicator initiative can help scale up a small innovation team known as Task Force 99, as well as present new opportunities to explore changes in production, training and doctrine.
By Michael Marrow
The Pentagon has changed how it tracks items in American airspace, increasing the number of objects it sees.
By Aaron Mehta
Eventually, the new KRADOS system will completely replace the legacy Theater Battle Management Core Systems — the service’s decades-old air tasking order system — at the some two dozen Air Operations Centers (AOC) around the world.
By Theresa Hitchens
Why do Air Force officers refer to green doors? Why? Read on and we’ll tell you.
By Theresa Hitchens
“Right now space is a supporting element to a geographic [component command] … but that paradigm is going to flip over time, where the supported command — the primacy, where the actions will happen first — is going to be space,” says Lt. Gen. Joseph Guastella, head of Air Force Central Command.
By Theresa Hitchens
Rocket development builds on tried and true experience for new orbital missions
With Russian engines out of the picture, there’s a new Medium Launch Vehicle on the horizon that is US sourced with a fairing sized to launch constellations.
“The training we have given them we know has paid off,” Mattis said of the Saudis. “We have had pilots in the air who recognize the danger of a specific mission and declined to drop even when they get the authority. We have seen staff procedures that put no-fire areas around areas where there’s hospitals or schools.”
By Paul McLeary
CORRECTED strikes per day figure WASHINGTON: The air war against the Islamic State is not “anemic,” a Central Command spokesman told Breaking Defense, rebutting a critique of the campaign we published last week. To say the rate of airstrikes in Syria and Iraq is less than against Iraq in 1991 and 2003, Serbia and Kosovo in…
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
