Recently confirmed Gen. Jim Slife pledged to work on sharing data not only inside the Air Force but with his counterparts at the other armed services.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.What’s new in naval radars and missiles: Defending the Pacific
Defending U.S. naval forces in the Pacific, Red Sea, and elsewhere require a range of systems from close-in weapons to anti-ballistic missiles.
Lt. Gen. Jim Slife will become the Air Force vice chief — if he can get past a confirmation blockade that has stalled out nominations in Congress.
By Michael Marrow and Aaron Mehta
“I was asking myself, what would I say to myself in the aftermath of fatal mishap if we discovered that the reason for this was this clutch issue,” said AFSOC commander Lt. Gen. Jim Slife. “Would I look back and say that I did everything that I could do today? And I couldn’t answer that in the affirmative.”
By Valerie Insinna
Notably, Slife called out the need to operate in and around “an island environment that is not serviced by a major fixed operating base runway.”
By Aaron Mehta
“The SOF that we have is not the SOF we will need” for the future, head of Air Force Special Ops Command, Lt. Gen. James Slife, warned today.
By Paul McLeary
Communications, survivable strike, mobility, high-speed vertical lift, and intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities are all on AFSOC’s modernization wish list.
By Theresa Hitchens
