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That might point the way to needed cultural and structural changes, the service’s strategy-and-requirements leader told the Defense Innovation Board.

On Dec. 2, the U.S. Air Force and Northrop Grumman will roll out the service’s first new stealth bomber in more than three decades. Listen in as Aviation Week defense editors discuss what details they are hoping to see and what is likely to come next for the B-21 Raider.

The business mogul and former New York mayor succeeds inaugural chair Eric Schmidt, the former Google CEO, who sought to infuse the innovative spirit of Silicon Valley to Pentagon planning and investments.

SNC bought the firm in part to continue competing for the Army's Future Tactical Unmanned Systems Increment 2 program.

In seeking to destroy the Constitution or to weaken it into insignificance, Mpofu et al risk standing undefended in the resulting storms.

The service aims to become “ruthless” in selecting development programs under ongoing review.

Here is an overview of 10 of the service’s top priorities as it looks to shape its future force.

The US Air Force hopes to develop and field autonomous combat drones that would augment piloted fighters “in the mid to late 2020s,” Andrew Hunter, the Air Force’s top acquisition official, said in August.

But it raises questions about just how far along the Next Generation Air Dominance program is.

The U.S. Air Force’s short-lived “Digital Century Series” plan appears to be dead for future manned fighters, but the service says the plan’s focus on rapidly iterating designs could be relevant for its future drones.