A U.S. Air Force program is testing what is technologically possible in warfare and setting stiff challenges for the NATO alliance. Gen. Lawrence A. Skantze, commander of Air Force Systems Command, described some of the early findings of Project Forecast II during a recent meeting of Aerospace...
Sizing the Boeing X-20 Dyna-Soar to Mission Utilizing the 1965 US Air Force Systems Command Space Planners GuideThe early conceptual design of a space launch system is considered the most abstract, innovative, and technologically challenging phase throughout the entire aerospace product development ...
(AEDC), the Air Force Flight Test Center (AFFTC), and the Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) Patuxent River site, will save millions of dollars by collaborating on test and evaluation software for the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) F-35 and other projects. ...
The equipment will be used by contingency response groups, which quickly deploy to establish command and control, maintenance and refueling hubs where military infrastructure is otherwise lacking. As the Pentagon prepares for potential fights in the Indo-Pacific and Europe, the...
ACC,Air Combat Command- a command that is the primary provider of air combat weapon systems to the United States Air Force; operates fighter, bomber, reconnaissance, battle-management, and rescue aircraft AFSPC,Air Force Space Command- a command of the United States Air Force that is responsible...
Work will be performed at Centennial, Colorado; Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida; and Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, and is expected to be completed by March 31, 2028. The Contracting Division, Assured Access to Space, Space Systems Command, Los Angeles Air Force Base, El...
Wright-Patterson is also home to Air Force Materiel Command, which “conducts research, development, test and evaluation, and provides acquisition management services and logistics support necessary to keep Air Force weapon systems ready for war,” the command’s website says. ...
The author proposes a 21st century command control and communications computer network that connects components of the three major United States Air Force operational commands: the Strategic Air Command (SAC), Military Aircraft Command (MAC), and Tactical Air Command (TAC). The proposed scheme fully...
The Air Force, like the Army and the Navy, is reinvesting in electronic warfare and the related domination of the electromagnetic spectrum after years of atrophy. Modern militaries rely on the spectrum to communicate, navigate and guide weapons to their targets; the fight over it can...
STRATCOM change of command Air Force Global Strike Command, activated in April 2009, puts the command and control of the Air Force's nuclear assets under the control of a single organization.NEIGHBORS You've made a tremendous difference in both standing up and leading Global Strike Command to ...