Air Force secretary announces yearlong S&T strategy review

The Air Force will launch a 12-month review of its science and technology portfolio -- work that is meant to define the service's top research priorities and strengthen partnerships with the scientific community.

Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson announced the yearlong study of its research strategy Sept. 18 at the Air Force Association conference in National Harbor, MD. The Air Force Research Laboratory will lead the review with support from the Air Force Scientific Advisory Board and the National Academy of Sciences and Engineering.

"At a time when federal research funding may be uncertain, we want the U.S. Air Force to be the sponsor of choice for research scientists," Wilson said. "We want to use methods and organizational structures that best support university-based research so that we simultaneously benefit from the work that is done and develop the next generation of American engineers and scientists that we will need as a service to take us into the next frontier."