Air Force Materiel Command’s Post

During Project Convergence Capstone 4, more than 4,000 Soldiers and civilians will gather at locations along the West Coast to experiment with capabilities and formations to help transform how the Army fights with its Joint and Multinational partners in the future. #ProjectConvergenceCapstone4 #ProjectConvergence #PCC4 #ArmyTransformation

The Department of the Air Force has announced significant changes aimed at reshaping, refocusing, and reoptimizing the Air Force and Space Force. These changes are designed to ensure continued supremacy in air and space domains and to better position the services in the face of #GreatPowerCompetition. The initiatives include streamlining operations and prioritizing areas such as technology integration, cyber expertise, and software development. https://lnkd.in/g725iaze #AirForce #SpaceForce #GreatPowerCompetition #Defense #Military #TechnologyIntegration #CyberExpertise #SoftwareDevelopment #NationalSecurity #DefenseStrategy #AirDominance #SpaceSuperiority #Innovation #Modernization #Security #DefenseIndustry #USAF #SpaceOps #Aerospace #MilitaryTechnology #StrategicPlanning #MissionReadiness

The United States Air Force will always come under fire as a powerful presence across the globe. The Air Force stands committed to equip, train and fight anywhere, anytime. The Secretary of the Air Force laid out decisions for reshaping, refocusing, and reoptimizing the Air Force and Space Force to better posture the services to prevail in an era of Great Power Competition (GPC). The changes include actions in four categories: Develop People, Generate Readiness, Project Power, Develop Capabilities. This information is a must read for anyone that wants to get a collective understanding of how the DAF is reoptimizing its forces to meet strategic challenges of Great Power Competition. United States Air Force United States Department of Defense Air Education and Training Command United States Space Force #reoptimizetheforce #greatpowercompetition #developingleaders https://lnkd.in/euHiSTHt

Further on USAF changes: Interstate Moving, Relocation, Logistics https://lnkd.in/e_XjyWiN

Seems a little like Army DevCom... It will be interesting to watch where the money and power falls after all this: Develop Capabilities • Create a Department of the Air Force Integrated Capabilities Office to lead capability development and resource prioritization to drive Department of the Air Force modernization investments. • Combine disparate efforts to create the Office of Competitive Activities to oversee and coordinate sensitive activities. • Create a Program Assessment and Evaluation Office to foster structure and incorporate a more strategic and analytically based approach to resourcing decisions. • Establish Integrated Capabilities Command to develop competitive operational concepts, integrated requirements, and prioritized modernization plans to align with force design. • Create a new Information Dominance Systems Center within Air Force Materiel Command (AFMC) to strengthen and elevate the Air Force’s focus on Command, Control, Communications, and Battle Management; Cyber; Electronic Warfare; Information Systems; and Enterprise Digital Infrastructure. • Strengthen the support to nuclear forces by expanding the Nuclear Weapons Center to become the Air Force Nuclear Systems Center within AFMC. This will provide comprehensive materiel support to the nuclear enterprise; establish a 2-star general officer as the Program Executive Officer for Inter-Continental Ballistic Missiles. • Refocus the Life Cycle Management Center within AFMC as the Air Dominance Systems Center to synchronize aircraft and weapons competitive development and product support. • Establish an Integration Development Office within AFMC to provide technology assessments and roadmaps. It will drive alignment and integration of mission systems across centers and provide technical expertise to assess operational concept feasibility. • Create Space Futures Command, a new field command, that develops and validates concepts, conducts experimentation and wargames, and performs mission area design.

Is USAF creating a Mini CAPE to argue with Big CAPE? • Create a Program Assessment and Evaluation Office to foster structure and incorporate a more strategic and analytically based approach to resourcing decisions. https://lnkd.in/e2rKJR_y

A year of preparation (and already preparing for the next evolution) of this experimentation

As threats around the world continue to evolve, Airmen must be ready to face the challenges that follow. From 21-26 April, 540 participants gathered for Readiness Challenge X at Tyndall Air Force Base, Florida. This year’s six-day challenge not only tested readiness, but also strengthened interoperability. Readiness Challenge X comes at a critical time, as the DAF looks towards re-optimization. “U.S. Airmen are training to deter and win in the current environment of Great Power Competition,” said Lt Gen Tom Miller, USAF Deputy Chief of Staff for Logistics, Engineering, and Force Protection. “Readiness Challenge provides the perfect opportunity for Airmen to put their wartime skills to the test as they navigate unknown challenges each day of the competition. Developing critical thinking skills in training ensures we are adaptable in the face of evolving threats in contested environments,” he continued. To learn more about Readiness Challenge X, visit the link below: https://lnkd.in/ejp3fhqS #USAF #ReadinessChallengeX #AFCEReadinessChallenge

TIME OF CONSEQUENCE! The logic of war has always been to alter human behavior by imposing one’s will on other states and their leaders. Historically, states have relied on conventional warfare to accomplish this objective. Presently, information technologies and capabilities can instantly deliver tailored effects that influence states and their populations at the individual level thus altering behavior without firing a kinetic shot. If tensions escalate to armed conflict, these irregular warfare actions continue to benefit friendly forces by adding deliberate fog and friction to degrade enemy decision-making and convincing hostile actors that continued kinetic operations against the U.S., allies, or partners are not in the aggressor’s best interest. Having engaged in two decades of counter-terrorism, the United States now finds itself confronted by a rising China, determined to utilize irregular warfare approaches to strengthen its grip on power at home and reshape the international environment in its favor. Planned funding levels and another looming continuous resolution threaten the USAF’s ability to modernize its force and focus on the “correct” operational needs to meet the challenges of this complex strategic environment. Currently, Washington continues to fail in responding to China's ability to operate with perceived impunity below the threshold of armed conflict. The United States Air Force must optimize for great power competition AND advance its information warfare capabilities to gain and preserve its dominance and continue its long tradition of innovation. https://lnkd.in/ezGwCkM7 #USAF #spaceforce #gpc #strategy #airforce #informationwarfare #innovation #irregularwarfare #security #internationalsecurity United States Air Force Air National Guard United States Space Force Defense Strategies Institute Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) College of International Security Affairs