The “first priority” for President Donald Trump defense team to deliver "peace through strength" should be a major cash infusion to revitalize the Air Force and ensure the Space Force can deliver for all the other military branches, according to a new report from AFA’s Mitchell ...
A workshop designed to test the Space Force’s “Competitive Endurance” theory for dealing with the likes of Russia and China exposed “unintended consequences” that will hurt the service in the long run, experts from AFA’s Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies said this week.
As the Air Force completes a highly anticipated force design—its first real overhaul in a generation—the leaders overseeing the work drew a narrow distinction over how the resulting future force will be funded.
F-16s that will soon be provided to Ukraine will not give Ukraine air superiority due to robust Russian air defenses, but will allow Kyiv to transition to a Western-style air force and better employ U.S. munitions, U.S. Air Forces in Europe Commander Gen. James B. ...
The U.S. should remove the limits it imposes on what targets Ukraine can attack with American weapons, former Air Force generals said, and let Ukraine take the fight to air bases and staging areas inside Russia. Ukraine also needs to dump its Soviet-style doctrine of ...
Assistant Secretary of Defense for Space Policy John F. Plumb warned lawmakers that Russia is developing an “indiscriminate” nuclear weapon to go in space, confirming reports from several months ago and describing potentially devastating effects in orbit.
The Space Force is ramping up its investment in domain awareness to stay ahead in the increasingly contested space environment, and Chief of Space Operations Gen. B. Chance Saltzman described the effort as essential to his “Competitive Endurance” theory meant to guide the entire service.
Wargames run by the Mitchell Institute show that moderately-priced and moderately-capable autonomous aircraft would be a huge benefit to the Air Force in a Pacific fight, imposing costs on an adversary, and enhancing the effectiveness of crewed combat aircraft.
As both China and the U.S. push further into space, with plans to explore and conduct research on the moon in the not-so-distant future, the Pentagon and Congress need to take steps now to ensure freedom of operations in cislunar space—the vast expanse between geosynchronous ...
Space Force leaders have become increasingly vocal about the need for responsible counterspace capabilities: weapons and operations that can hold enemies' space assets at risk to deter conflict. And it’s not just words—within the past year, the service has activated several units key to the ...
Military missions in the air, on land, and at sea demand robust, timely weather information. On-orbit space-based environmental monitoring (SBEM) systems are a critical source of this data, but years of underfunding, delayed, curtailed, and canceled modernization programs have left the SBEM enterprise in a ...
Space Force Chief Technology and Innovation Officer Lisa Costa called artificial intelligence a “game-changer” for the service during a recent Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies’ webinar event, highlighting its potential to enhance USSF’s operational capabilities and affect the global space race, while also acknowledging some ...