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The Chief of Air Staff (CAS), Air Marshal Hasan Abubakar, called for a stronger partnership with other Air Forces on Friday.

The Chief of the Air Staff (CAS), Air Marshal Hassan Abubakar, says strengthening strategic partnerships with other Air Forces will provide a pathway to

“Formula One is amazingly complex from an aerodynamic perspective. And in my opinion, it's more complex than what we do in aviation,” said Will Roper, the Air Force’s former acquisition chief.

By   Theresa Hitchens on December 18, 2020 at 3:31 PM Will Roper WASHINGTON: The Air Force’s sixth-generation fighter jet that emerges from the Next-Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) program is almost certain to come with an AI copilot, says service acquisition czar Will Roper. The bigger question is what tasks the human pilot can, and most importantly should, cede to that artificial intelligence algorithm in what circumstances. Whereas low-cost aircraft, such as the Skyborg drone, could ver...

By   Theresa Hitchens on December 10, 2020 at 4:41 PM Will Roper WASHINGTON: The Air Force hopes to persuade skeptical lawmakers to accept its space acquisition reform plans, promising increased transparency in exchange for more budgetary freedom. Senior officials are engaging with defense appropriators as they near the end game on the 2021 defense spending bill, Shawn Barnes, deputy assistant secretary for space acquisitions and integration, said today. Both sides of Capitol Hill have stomp...