The Air Force’s mantra under Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr. has been to “accelerate change or lose,” but the most recent wargaming indicates, so far, the latter, according to Lt. Gen. S. Clinton Hinote, the Air Force’s futurist. The corrective action is to speed up ...
Joint All-Domain Command and Control
"Foreign adversaries increasingly are incorporating technological superiority into strategic planning to gain advantage over the U.S. While sometimes coming from true scientific advances and genuine research and development, for some adversaries reverse engineering, intellectual property theft, corporate espionage, and cyber intrusions constitute official state policy. ...
When it comes to sporting analogies, many strategists have urged U.S. cyber warriors to think more like a hockey team—with swift transitions between offensive and defensive plays—than a football team. But U.S. Cyber Command Deputy Commander Air Force Lt. Gen. Charles L. Moore Jr. argues ...
The head of the Defense Department’s Silicon Valley innovation hub addressed news of Google’s interest in competing for a pending DOD cloud contract. Defense Innovation Unit Director Michael Brown said Google’s managers are “excited” to be back in the hunt for DOD contracts. Speaking during ...
The Air Force Association's Air, Space & Cyber Conference in National Harbor, Md., brought together top defense experts in September to discuss some of the biggest topics and challenges facing the Air Force and Space Force in a series of 10 “Mission Capability Area” panels. ...
U.S. Transportation Command is already conducting an after-action report of the Noncombatant Evacuation Operation that flew more than 124,000 Afghan refugees, third-country nationals, and Americans from Kabul to safety in August to identify lessons learned, said the command's director of operations, Maj. Gen. Corey J. ...
Increasing reliance on artificial intelligence to augment human decision making raises the risk of attacks targeting critical data and AI algorithms, warned the Air Force’s cyber policy chief at AFA’s Air, Space, & Cyber Conference. “If our adversary is able to inject uncertainty into any ...
Nicolas M. Chaillan, the Air Force’s first-ever chief software officer, announced his resignation Sept. 2 in a candid LinkedIn post citing, as the final straw in his decision, diminished support for investing in the technologies needed to enable joint all-domain command and control.
"The Department of Defense recently declared it now has a 'North Star,' with Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III’s signing of the joint all-domain command and control (JADC2) strategy. To be clear, JADC2 is not a singular program but instead a strategy designed to ...