Air Force Global Reach Document August 23, 2013

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Nothing too special (nice glossy production value it looks like )

http://www.af.mil/Portals/1/images/airpower/GV_GR_GP_300DPI.pdf

 

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Coming Soon: 'Multi-Capable Airmen' for Combat Deployments | Air & Space Forces Magazine

Airmen must be able to quickly deploy in small teams to austere locations in order to establish and sustain combat operations, Air Force leaders say.

www.airforcemag.com

 

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Hmmmmm.

 

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The USAF’s Bad Bets on Pilot Retention Show It Needs Outside Help

Service leaders think the same old tactics can reverse a pilot shortage in a resurging economy.

www.defenseone.com

 

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USAF Releases New Airpower Doctrine | Air & Space Forces Magazine

The Air Force released a new doctrine that outlines the basic tenents of airpower, how and why the service fights, and reiterates USAF core values.

www.airforcemag.com

 

[Grey Havoc]

Revised map to a thorough trainwreck, more like.

 

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U.S. Forces Operating ‘Without Complete Air Superiority’ Due to Small, Armed Drones | Air & Space Forces Magazine

The proliferation of small, weaponized UAS is the most “persistent and dangerous” threat to troops in the Middle East in decades.

www.airforcemag.com

 

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Beyond ABMS: Air Force Pushes Experimental Tech For AI, IT, Data - Breaking Defense

The expanded experimentation campaign is also building new "business approaches" -- some of which will require Pentagon-level blessing -- to speed software-based capabilities to the field, DAF Chief Architect Preston Dunlap said.

breakingdefense.com

 

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The Air Force’s chief of staff lays out a new way to deploy

“For the past 15, 16 years ... whatever was needed, we would send,” Chief of Staff Gen. Charles “CQ” Brown said.

www.defensenews.com

 

[Grey Havoc]

I'd say that plan is pretty much doomed to failure, to say the least.

 

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US over-the-horizon capabilities robust, but use requires ‘strategic refinement,’ experts say

While over-the-horizon capabilities have never been stronger, a larger counter-terrorism strategy is needed.

www.militarytimes.com

 

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How Air Mobility Command Wants its Airlifters and Refuelers to Fight | Air & Space Forces Magazine

Air Mobility Command's airlifters could become command and control assets and its tankers might carry air-to-air missiles in a high-end fight.

www.airforcemag.com

 

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Kendall Outlines 'Operational Imperatives,' Choices During Think Tank Appearance

Washington DC (AFNS) Jan 25, 2022 - While the United States military remains the best in the world, Department of the Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall said Jan. 19 that the Air and Space Forces must move quickly to adapt and modern

www.spacewar.com

 

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New DAF software factory aims to digitally transform AFRL

Wright-Patterson AFB OH (SPX) Jan 28, 2022 - The chief software officer for the Air Force recently designated Hangar 18 as a Department of the Air Force software factory. Hangar 18 joins 16 other DAF software factories-including the first, Kes

www.spacedaily.com

 

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AFRL neurotechnology partnership aims to accelerate learning

Wright-Patterson AFB OH (SPX) Aug 14, 2020 - It may sound like something straight out of a sci-fi movie, but an Air Force Research Laboratory team is turning science fiction into reality to help warfighters unlock the powers of the brain.

www.spacewar.com

 

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Air Force To Set Up 3D Printed Supply Chain At Tinker AFB - Breaking Defense

"The ability to additively manufacture an aircraft engine part and gain military airworthiness is a significant step forward in growing the adoption of additive manufacturing in the Air Force,” Nathan Parker, deputy program executive officer at RSO, said.

breakingdefense.com

 

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Air Force to Field MRAPs Fitted With Laser, Robotic Arm to Blow Up Unexploded Bombs | Air & Space Forces Magazine

The Air Force will field reconditioned armored vehicles equipped with lasers for bomb disposal to detonate unexploded ordnance on airfields.

www.airforcemag.com

 

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Air Force Special Operations Looks To Reinvent Itself On the Cheap

Cargo planes that drop cruise missiles from pallets and land on water show how air special operators are trying to trick out what they’ve already got on the tarmac.

www.defenseone.com

 

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Air Force special ops chief says it’s time to embrace new missions

"The idea that anybody at the headquarters thinks special tactics is irrelevant and should be disbanded is patently false."

www.airforcetimes.com

Anybody can go through the course and become a JTAC. We took large portions of our special tactics field, particularly combat controllers, and made them all JTACs. When you look at the future operating environment, is there value to providing JTACs to the joint force? That may be part of it. I don’t think it will be the defining feature that it has been for the last 20 years.

 

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Facing Future Threats, Time for Air Force to Stockpile Munitions is Now, Experts Say | Air & Space Forces Magazine

Given threats posed by China and Russia, the Air Force should buy and stockpile more precision munitions, analysts say.

www.airforcemag.com

 

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Air Force aims to sharpen vision for teaming pilots with drones

"We are poised to go ahead and take a significant step forward" in teaming autonomous drones up with piloted fighters and bombers, Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall said March 9.

www.defensenews.com