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.
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.
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.
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.
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.