We’re told that the Air Force still intends to host its nuclear summit next Thursday (Sept. 18), likely at Bolling AFB, D.C. But now, instead of a venue where service leaders roll out the implementation plan for rebuilding USAF’s nuclear enterprise, the summit will serve as the forum for making the decisions on the path ahead. The Air Force now anticipates rollout of the implementation plan after the four-star Corona summit that is scheduled for early October. Also, though eyed primarily as an internal pow-wow of key service leaders, the summit now may include Office of the Secretary of Defense and interagency officials, Air Force spokeswoman Capt. Elizabeth Aptekar tells the Daily Report.
The defense intelligence community has tried three times in the past decade to build a “common intelligence picture”—a single data stream providing the information that commanders need to make decisions about the battlefield. The first two attempts failed. But officials say things are different today.