The realities of funding and the need to disseminate what the space ISR infrastructure gathers means that “integration of activities in space becomes increasingly important” in the future, Air Force Undersecretary Ron Sega told reporters yesterday. Sega sees an increasingly blurred line “going forward” between “white and black”—open and secret—space activities.
The first flight of the secretive B-21 bomber has slipped to mid-2022, but the program is moving along well, Air Force Rapid Capabilities Office director Randall Walden said in an exclusive interview. The second copy of the B-21, which will be used for structural testing, is now on the production…