Welsh: Shift away from 'next-generation' thinking driven by urgency

By Courtney Albon / June 15, 2016 at 1:44 PM
Driving the Air Force's shift away from "next-generation" thinking in its vision for future air superiority is a need to field rapid, adaptable capabilities in a budget-restrained, evolving threat environment, according to the service's top uniformed official. The Air Force earlier this month released the first product of its air superiority-focused enterprise capability collaboration team -- a group tasked with identifying options for meeting future air superiority demands. The document, titled the " Air Superiority Flight Plan ," reveals that...

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