Air Force Global Strike Command’s second decade in business will be a busy one. Created in 2009 as Strategic Air Command’s post-Cold War replacement, Global Strike oversees the bulk of the Pentagon’s nuclear weapons and provides bomber aircraft for combat operations and deterrence flights around ...
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AT&T will start bringing fifth-generation wireless networking to Tyndall AFB, Fla., in early 2020, the company said in a Nov. 21 release. “AT&T is comprehensively rebuilding and modernizing communications infrastructure and capabilities across Tyndall,” the company said. “It is providing future-forward networking capabilities … to ...
Iran has been successful deterring the US and its regional adversaries and extending its influence in the Middle East with a three-pronged approach to defense, centered on ballistic missiles, a multilayered maritime defense and sponsorship of regional proxies, according to a new report from the ...
Starting some time next year, satellite communications providers that want to sell to the US military will need to get pre-certified to prove they are meeting the same cybersecurity standards as federal agencies. The Information Asset Pre-assessment program will require companies to implement information security ...
Lt. Gen. VeraLinn “Dash” Jamieson, USAF deputy chief of staff for intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance, and cyber effects operations, Brig. Gen. Bradley Pyburn, Air Force director of cyberspace operations and warfighter communications, Maj. Gen. Timothy Haugh, the nominee to command...
Virgin Group founder Richard Branson speaks with AFA Chairman and former Air Force Secretary F. Whitten Peters appear in conversation on Sept. 16, 2019, as part of AFA's 2019 Air, Space & Cyber Conference in National Harbor, Md. Staff photo...
Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. David Goldfein will address AFA's 2019 Air, Space & Cyber Conference in National Harbor, Md., on Sept. 17 at 10:45 a.m. EST. His remarks will also be available via a USAF livestream. Staff photo...
Defense Secretary Mark Esper boards a C-17 as he departs Paris on Sept. 7, 2019. Defense Department photo by Lisa Ferdinando. Newly minted Defense Secretary Mark Esper will take questions from airmen in his first major address as secretary to...
Katie Arrington, the newly minted chief information security officer for the assistant defense secretary for acquisition, speaks at the 10th annual Billington CyberSecurity Summit on Sept. 5, 2019, in Washington, D.C. Billington Summit courtesy photo by Nathan Mitchell. Bidders for...