Col. Gail E. Wojtowicz says she has the “best job in the Air Force,” as the chief for the Air Force Future Concepts and Transformation Division. Why? Wojtowicz told attendees at the AEI conference, that she and her staff get to play computer games to see what kind of force the Air Force will need 10, 15, and 26 years down the road. Her challenge is to make warfighters—who want “to blow things up”—start thinking about the “find” part of the equation. “That’s really good that we can engage, but if we can’t find, fix, track, target, and assess, it doesn’t do us any good,” she said. Without developing the “find” element, Wojtowicz says warfighters need a “dang good shield.”
Air Force Gen. Jacqueline D. Van Ovost—a trailblazer and one of the first 10 women to reach a four-star rank across the U.S. military—retired and passed control of U.S. Transportation Command to Air Force Gen. Randall Reed on Oct. 4, finishing an eventful tenure at TRANSCOM.