Weekly Briefing: Air Warfare News and Analysis

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AFRL's WeaponONE Aims To Rapidly Build Digital Design, Engineering Tools AFRL's WeaponONE is serving as a pathfinder program for Air Force Materiel Command's digital campaign to integrate digital tools into its operations.

Skyborg Could Develop Multiple Drones For Many Missions The Air Force is "driving toward" 2023 for initial operating capability for Skyborg, says AFRL Director Brig. Gen. Heather Pringle.

Lebanese Air Force Commander Aims To Boost ISR Capabilities With France, US Commander of the Lebanese the Air Force talks to Breaking D on the current strategies adopted to boost Lebanon's ISR capabilities and the Air Force's plans in that regard.

Army, Navy Funds Unlikely For Space Force Until 2023 "The last thing Congress intended when creating the Space Force was to end up with four different space forces," says CSIS's Todd Harrison in a new analysis promoting a roles and missions review.

Biden Freezes German Pullout Plans; 'Cradle to Grave' Review Underway SecDef Lloyd Austin "is at this moment in the process of conducting a very very thorough review" of planning to move 12,000 troops out of Germany, EUCOM chief Gen. Wolters says.

DoD Likely To Miss 2021 Deadline For Counter-Drone Weapon "Low-collateral effect interceptors" against small drones would be used in "defeating small UAS in urban environments, over sensitive sites, or situations where the rules of engagement would not allow kinetic effects," DoD's solicitation to industry says.

Pentagon Hypersonics Director Rebuts Critics, Step By Step Defense experts and the Pentagon's hypersonics R&D director told us the Union of Concerned Scientists study, which argues hypersonic weapons offer marginal improvements over existing weapons at an outsized cost, got something wrong at every step.

AMC Hopes To Wrap Analysis Of Next-Gen Tanker Options In 2022 The KC-46 is expected to be fully operational, at last, in 2024, AMC head Gen. Jacqueline Van Ovost.

EXCLUSIVE: Pentagon's Hypersonics Director Rebuts The Critics Independent experts and the Pentagon's hypersonics R&D director tell us a study of hypersonics by the Union of Concerned Scientists overlooks the very real advantages the new weapons offer the US – and its adversaries.

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