Fleet Decentralization Focus For AF Budget Beyond 2023
How the Air Force embodies its 'agile combat employment' concept depends in part on the future fleet composition -- with the F-22's fate a central question.
INDOPACOM Drafts Regional Strategy For All-Domain Ops
The emerging Indo-Pacific Warfighting Concept has been drafted, but still has "a ways to go as far as working through the Department of Defense," says INDOPACOM's head of requirements, George Ka'iliwai.
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Trilateral Cope North Exercise To Test ‘Agile’ Air Ops On Austere Airfields
The Agile Combat Employment (ACE) concept uses a 'hub and spoke' network of permanent, well-established 'hubs' and more remote, austere 'spokes'," says Air Force Brig. Gen. Jeremy Sloane, commander of the 36th Air Wing in Guam.
First Joint Exercise To Test All-Domain Capabilities: Valiant Shield 2020
The exercise also served as the Air Force's third "On Ramp" demo for its Advanced Battle Management System (ABMS), demonstrating a new software for battlefield situational awareness.