The Space Force hopes to finish calibrating and operationalize its newest weather satellite this fall, the head of Space Systems Command’s space sensing directorate said. Beyond that, Col. Robert Davis hinted that the future of space-based environmental monitoring may largely come from commercial satellites and ...
Data in Defense
The Air Force’s cloud-based data lakes are becoming “data swamps,” clogged by huge troves of unstructured, uncatalogued, and therefore effectively unusable data, dumped in there by service elements overwhelmed by the huge task of curating, cutting and cataloging it. That was the message from new ...
The Air Force's 557th Weather Wing headquarters at Offutt Air Force Base, Neb. is the nerve center for weather forecasts that impact military operations around the world.
The Air Force’s pilot training and safety enterprise is in the midst of a pivotal transition, a panel of top generals said at the AFA Warfare Symposium on March 7, with increased usage of tools like data analytics and high-tech simulators but limited flying hours and ...