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As Air Education and Training Command moves toward a learner-centric curriculum to train future Airmen, virtual and augmented reality are key to the program's success. Maj. Gen. Andrea D. Tullos, commander of 2nd Air Force, which is responsible for graduating some 150,000 joint force personnel ...
Rules governing how the U.S. military can buy software and networking tools are standing in the way of rapidly developing adaptable networks that can win future wars, according to a new paper from the Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies. “Speed is Life: Accelerating the Air ...
Hoping to speed up and streamline innovation, the Air Force announced the launch of “Project Holodeck,” a platform aimed at allowing Airmen to better submit, track, test, and ultimately implement new ideas for the service.
The Defense Department’s push to operationalize artificial intelligence, which leaders say will change the way the military conducts war but not the laws of war, is gaining momentum. More than 600 AI efforts are in progress across the department, “significantly more than just a year ...
The Air Force is still in the infancy of its push toward digital acquisition systems, but it won’t go back to traditional methods because the threat, the need for speed, and increasing costs demand a new way of doing business, acting Assistant Secretary for Acquisition, ...
The list of Russian “exotics”—its most modern nuclear weapons systems—is starting to worry members of Congress. Skyfall is a nuclear cruise missile that can orbit the Earth. Poseidon is a submarine-launched, nuclear-capable torpedo that can emerge from beneath the waves and strike coastal cities. And ...
The Pentagon on July 6 canceled the massive and controversial $10 billion Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud contract after years of challenges to its award to Microsoft. The Defense Department said the move comes because the contract, which has been long delayed due to those ...
The Department of Defense embraced the concept of cloud computing almost a decade ago, but the practical realities of contracts and implementation slowed adoption. Uncertainty about cost and the lack of cloud engineering talent proved challenging to the same commands that were eager to leverage ...
