The US Air Force Just Inched Closer To Buying Boeing’s E-7A Wedgetail
The upcoming sole source contract to Boeing for more data on the Wedgetail suggests that the service may seek to eschew a competition.
Between E-3 And Eyes In Space, The Air Force Needs A Bridge, Now
The Air Force has valiantly breathed life into the decades-old E-3 Sentry platform, but as top service officials recently suggested, it can no longer wait for the jump to space-based systems, the authors write in this op-ed. The Foundation for Defense of Democracies’ Bradley Bowman, Maj. Lauren Harrison and Ryan Brobst argue that as Russia […]
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Why enterprise IT modernization matters now – and how to “delight by design”
Do more with less: streamline workflows, reduce duplication, invest upfront to save long-term.
Brown: Air Force Serious About E-7 Wedgetail
Acquiring the Wedgetail "gives us a path" while the service awaits a space-based capability, Air Force Chief of Staff CQ Brown said, as "an option to be able to get the capability much faster than if we were to start a new start from scratch."
NATO To Invest In C2 For Strategic Pivot: China Rises As Alliance Threat
"China is not mentioned with one single word in the current Strategic Concept," said NATO SecGen Jens Stoltenberg. "In one [way] or the other, I'm absolutely certain China will be reflected, and the challenges that China poses will be reflected" in the planned 2022 update.
Two US Destroyers Enter Black Sea; Russia Responds
The deployment of the two US Navy ships, along with a refueling ship, is the largest American presence in the waterway in three years.
Air Force Eyes Moving Older F-22s From Training To Combat Units
"There are a lot of requirements out there and we could use everything we had and a little bit more," says ACC head Gen. Mike Holmes, but "we need to put some priority on modernization."
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America must adopt a Sixth Domain of warfare doctrine
The Sixth Domain is not defined by geography. It’s a new kind of conflict in which autonomy and networked systems allow thousand-dollar consumer electronics to destroy multi-million-dollar conventional weapons systems.
What Aircraft May Die To Fund Goldfein’s Future?
Although retiring the B-2 fleet could save the Air Force nearly $3 billion, CSIS cautions that doing so "would leave the nation without a long-range penetrating strike aircraft and would weaken the airborne component of the nuclear triad."
Eyes On Vulnerable AWACS, Rivet Joint, Etc., Air Force Studies replacements
AFA ORLANDO: The Air Force, which relies on large vulnerable targets known as JSTARS, AWACS, Rivet Joint and other aircraft, knows it may need to shift its reliance on big, largely indefensible planes to fused networks of sensors as they are doing with JSTARS. That was the word from Gen. Mike Holmes here today when […]
Use Allied Investments To Help Rebuild US Military
The shift from slo mo — counterinsurgency operations — to high intensity combat is a major challenge for the US military and its allies. It is a culture shift, a procurement shift and an investment shift. But mobilization is even more important than modernization. To get ready for this shift, our weapons inventory needs to […]
Allies Can Help US Lower Weapons Costs, Build New Force
Shifting from a primary focus on counterinsurgency land wars to building a high intensity combat force able to prevail against peer competitors is a significant challenge for the United States and its closest allies after 15 years of COIN. A key dynamic within this effort is the crucial opportunity the US and its closest allies have to […]
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Answering the demand signal to move faster, field sooner, iterate continuously
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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 […]
Australia Crafts Its Own Anti-Access, Area Denial Strategy
The Australian military is shaping a transformed military force, one built around new platforms but ones that operate in a joint manner in an extended battlespace. The goal is to extend the defense perimeter of Australia and create, in effect, their own version of an Anti-Access/Area Denial (A2/AD) strategy. They also recognize a key reality of 21st […]
NATO AWACS Likely For CENTCOM
NATO HQ: As Central Command continues to hammer Daesh with bombs, rockets, bullets, and more, that’s straining the limited supply of AWACS, the airborne radar/command post aircraft that form the backbone of a modern air campaign. “That’s a capability under stress,” a senior NATO diplomat told reporters here. AWACS is one of those classic “high-demand, low-density” […]
F-22, Typhoon, Rafale: Lessons From The Trilateral Wargame
As former Air Force Chief of Staff “Buzz” Moseley once declared, “there is not a place on the face of the earth that the USAF will not fight their way into.” But this aspiration has been complicated by 15 years of fighting low-end opponents like the Taliban even as peer adversaries like China and Russia […]