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By Christi Spargur, 375th Air Mobility Wing Public Affairs / Published January 11, 2021 SCOTT AIR FORCE BASE, Ill. (AFNS) -- Scott Air Force Base’s innovation hub, Elevate, received Air Force approval to be designated a defense laboratory, Jan. 6. The approval marks Scott AFB as the first Air Force innovation cell to become an official defense lab for technology transfer purposes. The designation as a defense lab allows the Elevate team to partner with educational institutions under an Education Partnership Agreement in sharing resources, equipment and information. EPAs, h...

"Not sure if this is a black swan, but I would not be surprised if the next administration kicks off an internal review of the services’ roles and responsibilities, with an eye toward reducing excessive redundancy in force structure and capabilities," Mark Gunzinger says . By   Theresa Hitchens on December 28, 2020 at 1:55 PM Airmen install a new cable run on an aging Minuteman III missile. WASHINGTON: Budget. Budget. Budget. It’s the first word out of the mouths of analysts, former DoD officials and retired brass when asked (in a totally unscientific poll) to opine on the three major...

December 28, 2020 Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Charles "CQ" Brown speaks with senior leadership and faculty at Air University on Aug. 26. Brown detailed his plans on how the Air Force needs to change to face the challenges of the future in a series of action orders released in December. (Melanie Rodgers Cox/Air Force) In his first month on the job as the Air Force’s new chief of staff, Gen. Charles “CQ” Brown laid out a stark warning for the service: It has to change in several significant areas, or it risks losing the next war. In an Air Force news release Dec. 10, Brown issued ...

'We Don't Have a Choice:' Military Exercises in 2021 Will Focus on This Big Problem Lt. Col. James Forrest operates a virtual-reality headset in support of the Advanced Battle Management System, or ABMS, Onramp, Sept. 2, 2020, at Joint Base Andrews, Md. (Daniel Hernandez/U.S. Air Force) 23 Dec 2020 War-gaming how and where data moves may not sound as exciting as planning a top-secret infiltration mission. But leaders must understand how quickly troops and their equipment can communicate when up against an enemy. For the next year, the services will be running data-heavy exercises to determine...

By Lt. Col. Elizabeth Magnuson, Office of the Air Force Reserve / Published December 14, 2020 WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Lt. Gen. Richard Scobee, chief of the Air Force Reserve and commander of Air Force Reserve Command, highlighted the contributions of the more than 70,000 Reserve Citizen Airmen during an extremely busy 2020 and shared the Air Force Reserve future priorities during the Reserve Forces Policy Board’s quarterly meeting December 9. Throughout his speech, Scobee underscored the Air Force Reserve’s ability to deliver 20% of the Air Force’s overall operational and ...