Hanscom AFB, Mass., is serving a major hub once again this year for US Joint Forces Command’s annual coalition warrior interoperability demonstration that began yesterday and runs through June 29. Hanscom is the lead Air Force site for the two weeks of activities that brings together the US services with various civil agencies and coalition partners to investigate and assess command and control, communications, computers, and intelligence-surveillance-reconnaissance technologies for potential solutions to near-term capability gaps through realistic simulations of real-world scenarios. This year Australia, Canada, and New Zealand are participating. “We fight as a joint and coalition team and interoperability is critical to our success,” said Col. Jeff Hodgdon, director of the 653rd Electronic Systems Wing’s enterprise integration division at Hanscom. He is serving as combined forces air component commander for the demo. This year’s activities feature, for the first time, one, continuous nine-day scenario with no repetition. (Hanscom report by Chuck Paone)
Let’s Put the ‘Tech’ into Military Technology Policy
April 3, 2025
“Power projection is more than projecting military might—a nation’s economic power is the foundation of its capacity to project national power. And technological development is an important component of that power,” write former Chief Scientist of the Air Force Victoria Coleman and Prof. H.S. Philip Wong.