Air Force Secretary Michael Wynne presented an Exceptional Civilian Service Award to civilian Air Force photographer Ron Hall, during a ceremony at the Pentagon on April 17. Hall has photographed Air Force leaders and events for 50 years, covering 18 service Secretaries and 16 Chiefs of Staff. Wynne highlighted Hall’s body of work that took him from foreign visits to Corona conferences. Efforts are being made for his work to be displayed at the National Museum of the Air Force at Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio.
Unmanned aerial vehicles and autonomous aircraft may provide a solution to operating in heavily contested domains such as the Taiwan Straits, according to a panel of expert who suggested operationalizing artificial intelligence for such purposes sooner rather than later. The group gathered virtually to help launch the Mitchell Institute for…