Chief of Space Operations Gen. John W. "Jay" Raymond delivered a keynote address on “The State of the Space Force” at AFA’s Air, Space & Cyber Conference, Sept. 20, 2022. Watch the video or read the transcript.
Aiming to build a usable system throughout the experimental and prototyping phase of the Hypersonic Attack Cruise Missile program led to Raytheon and Northrop Grumman’s win of the program, company officials told reporters. The partners have already invested in production capacity in 14 states, they ...
Despite inflation at levels not seen in decades, Air Force primes have yet to demand major adjustments to existing contracts, but there are concerns about lower-tier vendors, Air Force service acquisition executive Andrew P. Hunter said. Speaking with reporters at AFA’s Air, Space & Cyber ...
The senior-most officers and enlisted members in the Air Force and Space Force and their spouses took part in a panel discussion at AFA's Air, Space & Cyber Conference. Each iterated a common theme: The well-being of Airmen, Guardians, and their families is tantamount.
In the closing session of AFA's Air, Space, & Cyber Conference, top generals in charge of the Air Force and Space Force future planning laid out their visions of the fundamental shifts of "space superiority" and the "democratization of air power" occurring in their domain.
The days when military installations and the communities in which they are located kept arms’ length are long gone, Kathleen Ferguson told an audience during a Sept. 20 panel discussion at AFA’s Air, Space & Cyber Conference. “In the early 1980s, you had everything within ...
Pacific Air Forces only recently developed the concept of agile combat employment in response to the growing threat to its air bases from China’s ballistic missiles, and already ACE is rapidly transforming Air Force planning, training, and doctrine. At its core, ACE is officially “a ...
The B-21 Raider will roll out of Northrop Grumman’s Palmdale, Calif., plant in early December, Air Force acquisition executive Andrew Hunter said, but how much of the airplane will be visible remains to be seen. During a press conference at AFA’s Air, Space & Cyber ...
Aggressive competitors, limited resources, and accelerating technological advances compel the Air Force to rapidly transform, as it has during other inflection points in its 75-year history, Chief of Staff Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr. said. “We’ve done this before … we can do it again,” ...
Senior Air Force officials revealed during AFA's Air, Space & Cyber Conference just how profoundly the potential for conflict with an increasingly aggressive China has come to dominate internal counsels and the service’s strategic plans.
The Air Force’s 12 Outstanding Airmen of the Year for 2022 will be formally recognized at AFA’s Air, Space & Cyber Conference from Sept. 19 to 21 in National Harbor, Md. Air & Space Forces Magazine has highlighted one each weekday through today, when we ...
Air combat is “a real team sport” requiring agile thinking, persistence, and a willingness to sometimes disregard the rules, retired Col. Charles B. DeBellevue, the highest-scoring Air Force Vietnam ace, said at a seminar held to commemorate the 50th anniversary of his last air-to-air kills.