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Theresa Hitchens on February 18, 2021 at 3:16 PM
Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. CQ Brown
WASHINGTON: The Air Force Chief of Staff is calling on the Pentagon leadership to launch a targeted roles and missions review of the key functional areas of future All Domain Operations detailed in the impending Joint Warfighting Concept.
“I wouldn’t actually go through a complete roles and missions [review],” Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. CQ Brown told the Defense Writers Group. “But I do think, as we as we go into the Joint Warfighting Concept and we look at gaps and seams and overlaps in capability, this is what the discussion has to occur on with [respect to] roles and missions.”
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Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. on February 18, 2021 at 4:50 PM
Gen. James McConville
WASHINGTON: As budget battles intensify in the face of COVID relief and the shift to the Pacific, Army Chief of Staff James McConville argues that the Army’s new missiles, aircraft, & networks can help the other services in long-range, fast-paced, high-tech combat.
“The future is all about range and speed,” Gen. McConville declared, and longtime Army watchers perked up. With the other services circling for a prophesied budgetary “bloodletting”, the Army really needs a clear and catchy argument for its modernization program.
Yes, Army leaders have previously touted the range and speed of specific weapons systems they’re developing – especially hypersonic & other long-range missiles, manned and unmanned Future Vertical Lift aircraft, and command networks capable of transmitting targeting data in seconds. But yesterday’s remarks by McConville were the first time the four-star Army
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Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. on February 19, 2021 at 12:42 PM
A UH-60 Black Hawk takes off after unloading soldiers during an exercise in Germany. An air assault like this one with troops wearing IVAS targeting goggles will be a key part of EDGE21, along with new long-range drones and jamming pods.
WASHINGTON: The Army will host an interservice aviation exercise in May to prove its Chief of Staff’s recent claim that the service can bring “speed and range” to future battlefields. Known as EDGE21 Experimentation Demonstration Gateway Event 2021 – and held at Dugway Proving Ground, the experimental wargame will be the Army’s latest bid to prove it plays a vital role in far-ranging and fast-paced All Domain Operations.
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