Teecht. Networks, Conception Fundamental To Air Forcefulness Philosophy

By Jim Garamone, DoD News, Defense Media Activity

WASHINGTON -- Building networks as well as continuing conception are telephone commutation to success inwards the future, Air Force leaders said at the Defense One Tech Summit hither today.

Richard J. Joseph, the Air Force’s primary scientist, as well as Mark Tapper, a exceptional advisor on intelligence, surveillance as well as reconnaissance at the service, spoke to Military.com’s Oriana Pawlyk during a panel discussion.

Both men said that Air Force civilisation must alter to ensure the service tin handgrip time to come threats.

“Everyone seems to recognize that the threat nosotros human face upwards has evolved to the signal where it is a existent challenge to us,” Joseph said. “In club to address that, nosotros are going to produce things differently -- non simply having novel technologies, but we’re going to convey to convey novel approaches.”

If the service fails to conform to this novel culture, it volition lose confidence of leaders as well as conception volition as well as hence lose priority, Joseph said. “It is upwards to us to receive all these things at once,” he added.

Seeking Dominance

China as well as Russian Federation as well as roughly of the smaller players convey access to technology scientific discipline that allows them to perish pregnant opponents. “We should non hold out simply next their lead. We should hold out looking at this inwards a grand agency as well as drive to receive upwards one's heed where nosotros ask to perish to retain dominance,” the primary scientist said.

New technology scientific discipline is great, Tapper said, but he wants an response to the question, “New technologies to produce what?” It comes downwardly to using novel tools as well as information to fighting what leaders believe the time to come threats volition be, he explained.

At its core, the Air Force projects American armed services powerfulness alongside speed as well as power, and, if necessary, alongside persistence, the officials said. But roughly communities inside the service expect at problems via a narrow lens, they acknowledged -- the airlift community, for example, would come upwards up alongside an airlift solution, the air fighting community alongside an air fighting community, as well as hence on.

Joseph said in that place needs to hold out a agency for communities to percentage a mutual viewpoint as well as that these communities should also percentage information hence all communities tin benefit.

Both men agreed that the USA shouldn’t simply expect at the threats posed yesteryear Russian Federation as well as China as well as devise counters to them. Rather, they said, the armed services should expect to meet where potential threats are non operating inwards club to hold out ahead of potential threats as well as to strength potential adversaries to invest inwards ways to counter American developments, rather than the other agency around.