Gen. James Cartwright, commander of U.S. Strategic Command, said Thursday at AFA’s Symposium in Orlando, Fla. that accessing data, discovering it, getting it to those who need it and ridding ourselves of the “ownership idea” is crucial. He went on: “The reality here is whether you’re on the ground or in the air, you step across the line of departure where you light the burners—shit happens. You’ve got to be able to respond. Waiting for five to 10 years is unacceptable in the world we live in.” He spoke of the need to figure out how to move data around and to build and integrate organizations without losing the service’s ethos. “We as Strategic Command have built a distributed organization along functional lines,” he said. “What is absolutely essential to me is to marry up the United States Air Force as they network to gather their air operations centers because without those air operations centers our functionally distributed nodes have no way to connect to the fight.”
B-21 Bomber Shelter May Reveal Size of Secret Jet
March 3, 2021
The Air Force may have inadvertently revealed the size of the secret B-21 bomber with the release of an image of a temporary shelter for the airplane. The service is evaluating several designs for temporary shelters for everyday use and deployment to temporary operating locations. If the B-21 fully fits…