Inside the Air Force highlights

By Courtney Albon / August 4, 2017 at 10:32 AM

Some must-reads from this week's issue of Inside the Air Force:

1. Senior Air Force officials -- including top brass from major commands and the Pentagon -- are scheduled to arrive in Greenland in early September as part of a trip across the High North intended to jump-start work on an Air Force Arctic strategy, and for the chance to see the only service aircraft equipped with skis to operate in the most extreme polar conditions: the LC-130.

Full Story: USAF brass headed to High North to prepare Arctic strategy

2. The Air Force is preparing to open the question of integrating autonomy into aircraft and computer systems to industry through a recent broad agency announcement that leverages the service's earlier work in that field, an Air Force Research Laboratory official told Inside the Air Force this week.

Full Story: Air Force bringing teaming, ISR, MDC2 under autonomy research umbrella

3. As House lawmakers propose significant changes to the way the Defense Department manages the space domain, DOD is conducting a trade space review to consider the merit of current proposals and identify new possible organizational and leadership structures.

Full Story: DOD to submit report on space reorganization options in September

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