The Air Force will run three tabletop exercises on the service’s readiness to transition to a wartime posture in an effort to build one of Secretary Frank Kendall's Operational Imperatives into the fiscal year 2026 program objective memorandum. The service disclosed in a request for information released last week that operational and acquisition leads for Kendall’s seventh imperative -- readiness of the department to transition to a wartime posture against a peer competitor -- are working on an “aggressive timeline”...
