Some Pentagon pencil pushers contend that the Air Force has a “weak” commitment to space programs, so they want, according to Defense News, to move responsibility for the highly successful Global Positioning System from the Air Force to the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Networks and Information Integration. It sounds like someone is in search of a mission. At any rate, per Defense News, Air Force officials are aware of a draft memo outlining such a shift and, as far as we can tell, don’t seem too impressed.
The Air Force overall reduced its size by 120 aircraft in fiscal year 2021, but kept about the same number of fighter, bomber and attack aircraft, according to data supplied by the service. The F-35 fleet saw the biggest increase while the B-1B bomber fleet saw the largest decline.