"It may not get to exactly what I want, but it'll be better than to get nothing that I want," Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. CQ Brown says of his recent talks with Congress about the service's budget plans.
Combatant Commanders for European Command and Indo-Pacific Command see bombers with hypersonic capabilities as "incredibly, incredibly valuable," says Gen. Timothy Ray.
The network transport architecture for NGC2 could be a hybrid approach that combines high assurance communications with 5G, WiFi, and multi-orbit satellites.
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.
If Congress fails to pass the 2020 budget, the Navy will have to delay necessary repairs on two nuclear-powered carriers, further stretching the fleet at a critical time.
The Navy is adding more ships as quickly as possible, even as it grapples with how it's going to pay the costs to keep them afloat once it gets them, a top officer said.
CNO John Richardson said Monday that, essentially, the Persian Gulf deployment was business as usual. "The Abraham Lincoln Strike Group was planned to deploy for some time now," he told the SeaAirSpace conference.
Knowing when to build on commercial systems and when to develop something new can be the difference between parity and information dominance.
The Navy has created a new fleet, and is sending it straight into the Baltic Sea to test new ways of doing business.
While two carriers attracting most of the attention, a smaller US footprint is being established between the Mediterranean and the Black Sea, where Russia -- and Turkey -- are raising concerns.