At the AFA Warfare Symposium this week, the Department of the Air Force announced 24 decisions stemming from its “Re-optimization for Great Power Competition” review. Now, as the department starts the process of implementing these major changes, former Air Force Futures boss retired Lt. Gen. ...
Retiring Air Force Futures director Lt. Gen. Clinton Hinote, in his last testimony before Congress, said he worries the service isn’t leaving future Airmen a force “that wins,” and without the changes requested in the fiscal 2024 budget, needed transformation could “come off the rails.”
Transformative advances in computing, more and more emphasis on information warfare, and increasingly few sanctuaries from the reach of adversaries—those are just some of the factors that will likely define the world and the Air Force in 2040, according to a new report. The Global Futures ...
Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr. delivered a forceful speech March 7, arguing that service is at the heart of all U.S. military operations. "For more than 75 years when our nation has called, airpower was the answer," Brown said during ...
As the Defense Department engages commercial entities to speed innovation, cultural and structural differences between government and the private sector continue to be the biggest hurdle to rapidly deploying new technology, the head of Air Force Futures told the influential Defense Innovation Board at a ...
Heather Penney of the Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies moderated a discussion on "Manned-Unmanned Teaming: Myth and Reality" with Lt. Gen. S. Clinton Hinote, Air Force deputy chief of staff for strategy, integration, and requirements, Mike Benitez of Shield AI, Robert Winkler of Kratos, and ...
Royal Air Force Air Commander Jez Attridge moderates a discussion with Lt. Gen. S. Clinton Hinote, Deputy Chief of Staff of the Air Force for strategy, integration, and requirements, and Lt. Gen. Nina Armagno, director of staff for the Space Force on “The Future of ...
Better incorporating the joint force improved the outcome of a wargame held this summer, but a great deal of work will be needed to bring those “trans-domain” changes to fruition, said Air Force futurist Lt. Gen. S. Clinton Hinote. The Global Integrated Wargame, which included ...
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 ability to achieve air superiority and control airspace over a war zone is a key U.S. military strategy and in some cases has been the primary means of achieving military objectives, such as when NATO intervened to stop Serbia's war in Kosovo and the ...
Russia’s failure to seize control of the skies during its invasion of Ukraine raises serious questions about the concept of air superiority—and how the U.S. might actually benefit from a contested domain in a future conflict, the Air Force’s top planner suggested. Lt. Gen. S. ...
In a 2027 invasion of Taiwan by China, neither side achieves air superiority, both sides take heavy losses, and China finds little hope for a fait accompli, according to a recent wargame run by the Center for a New American Security. The game highlighted the ...