“A few years ago, we wouldn't have had that problem because we wouldn't have been talking to each other and our machines certainly wouldn't have been talking to each other," said Air Force Lt. Gen. Clint Hinote." And so that's a huge step forward is the fact that we are all sharing data right now, it's almost too much.”
Lt. Gen. Clint Hinote told Breaking Defense that the service is “getting ready to take delivery" of a drone prototype, now confirmed as Boeing's Ghost Bat.
As missions stretch farther and comms grow less reliable, predictive software could become the edge that keeps missions afloat.
Next month, the Air Force will see if it can launch a live cruise missile from a pallet that was air dropped by a cargo plane.
"I want to really put a mark on the wall to start driving ourselves in that direction," CSAF Gen. CQ Brown told the annual McAleese conference today.