Navy admiral touts sealift recap, stops short of saying 2025 problem is solved
Now retired Army Gen. Stephen Lyons projected in 2020 that the Pentagon's sealift fleet would deteriorate rapidly starting in 2025.
TRANSCOM Head Envisions Increased Intra-Theater Lift Demand
The Joint Warfighting Concept will "envision much smaller force elements that are inherently reliant on very rapid mobility" within a theater, says TRANSCOM head Gen. Stephen Lyons.
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HASC Members Blast KC-46 Ahead Of 2022 NDAA
"There's a lot of retrofit that will have to take place," Gen. Stephen Lyons said about the replacement of the tanker's faulty boom camera.
Starship Troopers? TRANSCOM-SpaceX Accord Raises Policy Eyebrows
Point-to-point space transport is "a decade plus, maybe even multiple decades, in the future for that to be economical and practical from any commercial standpoint," Carissa Christensen, CEO of Bryce Space and Technologies, says.
COVID-19: TRANSCOM To Evacuate Americans From Foreign Hotspots With CRAF
"The first is scheduled for Nigeria," Gen. Stephen Lyons, TRANSCOM chief told reporters today, involving transport of "150 passengers" to Washington Dulles Airport in Virginia by civil aviation aircraft.
Leaking KC-46 Fuel Lines Are Latest Serious Boeing Tanker Fault
The Air Force provided few details about the latest problem bedeviling the airborne tanker in its terse statement last night, saying only that it had "upgraded an existing deficiency of its KC-46 Pegasus fuel system to Category I."
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TRANSCOM Wants To Keep 23 Tankers DoD Cut In 2021
Retiring the KC-135s and KC-10s before the new KC-46 tanker comes on line will have "significant impacts" on TRANSCOM's ability to fulfill its wartime mission, says Gen. Stephen Lyons.
How Much Sealift Does US Have For Crisis? It’s Not Sure
A new study points out that the Navy should do better at tracking how many ships it can call on in a pinch.
Over Where? Army Struggles To Relearn Rapid Deployment
HUNTSVILLE, ALA: This morning, Army Chief of Staff Mark Milley warned Congress that “I have grave concerns” about the Army’s ability to respond to a major war — say, with Russia, Gen. Milley’s no. 1 threat — “in a timely manner.” Here in Huntsville, generals and executives explained a big part of the reason why. […]