CSAF Brown Mulls Streamlining Of Air Force Commands; Barrett Announces ‘e’ Aircraft
"I want to go fast. I want to go fast. I want to go fast," says CSAF Gen. Charles Brown about revamping the Air Force to meet Russian and Chinese threats.
DARPA’s AlphaDogfight Tests AI Pilot’s Combat Chops
"Before AI can find its place, really, in the cockpit in a formation, it kind of has to earn its wings first," DARPA Deputy Director David Honey says.
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Streamcaster Nexus: Empowering the connected soldier at the tactical edge
On today’s battlefield, mobility isn’t optional - it’s mission-critical.
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."
EXCLUSIVE Navy, Air Force Chiefs Agree To Work On All Domain C2
Today, "we have Navy-only systems," said Vice Adm. Lewis, "which is really frustrating" -- in fact, it's "asinine."
Joint AI Chief: Start With 50% Solutions ASAP
The military will use Silicon Valley's approach to quickly field imperfect products, then rapidly improve them based on user feedback.
Air Force Joins Army Parachuting Into InfoWar; Creates New Unified Subcommand
The Air Force wants to develop information warfare capabilities to "deter malign activities from [the] information warfare level all the way up to conflict," says Air Combat Command head Gen. Mike Holmes.
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Not just selling into the kingdom, but building partnership with Saudi Arabia’s defense industry
Partnerships with outside industry are a cornerstone of the kingdom’s ambitious growth strategy.
Air Combat Commander Doesn’t Trust Project Maven’s Artificial Intelligence — Yet
Before the Air Force will trust AI to pick out targets, Gen. Holmes said, it has to get smarter than a human three-year-old.
Hyten: Sexual Abuser Or ‘Billy Mitchell Of Space’?
Hyten is not just one of the nation's 40 active-duty four-star officers, already an elite club with fewer members than a single NFL football team. He is also the the leader of the space community and the advocate-in-chief for space specialists' careers.
Lockheed Says It Can Fit 2 More Missiles In F-35 Bay
Adding extra firepower to the F-35 shows how loudly Lockheed hears the footsteps of Boeing's F-15X approaching.
Shanahan Ethics Agreement Out; How The F-15X Decision Was Made
The Air Force wants more planes - and believes it has found a way to get them.
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Breaking the Pentagon’s new bottleneck of time
As threats evolve, the winning model ties digital engineering to manufacturing capacity and a reindustrialized supply chain.
SecAF Questions Space Development Agency; Air Force Didn’t Want Boeing F-15X
We've already got SMC and the NRO. What the heck will a Space Development Agency do that's different, and why.
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 […]
Gen. Holmes Sketches Multi-Domain Warfare; A-10 Wings Funded in ’19
WASHINGTON: The Air Force and Army couldn’t start an important set of tabletop wargames last week because of the government shutdown. Air Force Gen. Mike Holmes revealed the information when he disclosed today that the Air Force was starting multi-domain war games to hammer out how the land and air services would work together in […]
JSTARS Just A Target In A2AD; No Need To Replace
AFA HQ: We finally learned why the Air Force has been backing away from a new JSTARS: it probably wouldn’t be much use in a real shooting war. That’s the verdict, stated in less unforgiving terms by the head of Air Combat Command, Gen. Mike Holmes, here in a speech. “The question is, how will […]