Air Force Secretary Michael Wynne compares Billy Mitchell’s efforts to prove airpower’s potential to the effort facing USAF today to prove that cyberspace is a critically important warfighting domain. He writes in a new letter to airmen, “Our cyber airmen’s work is a prerequisite to all military operations: ensuring freedom of action across the electromagnetic spectrum (EMS), which in turn contributes to freedom from attack and freedom to attack in all other domains—land, sea, air, and space.”
A three-month continuing resolution that ended in December inflicted less pain on the Department of the Air Force than it had expected, as procurement and construction continue in the new year. The federal government operated under a stopgap spending measure that stretched from the beginning of the fiscal year on…