Air Force Secretary Michael Wynne, in a new Letter to Airmen, exhorts airmen to take “advantage of every opportunity to increase” their knowledge so they can “develop and exploit new technologies and tactics.” He uses the term “knowledge-enabled airmen” to describe generations of innovative airmen who continued to learn throughout their careers.
Raytheon, a division of defense giant RTX, recently announced a multiyear deal with the Pentagon to increase annual production of the Air Force’s primary dogfighting missile by more than 50 percent from two years ago.
