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AIR FORCE ASSOCIATION 2019 MEDIA KIT USAF photo ADVERTISING SALES REPRESENTATIVES EAST COAST & MIDWEST WEST COAST Tom Buttrick, Account Manager Arthur Bartholomew, Account Manager 917-421-9051 213-596-7239 [email protected] [email protected] 2011 MEDIA KIT Air Force Magazine is the news and information resource for leaders, influencers and decision makers involved with the US Air Force. An insightful newsmagazine, daily breaking news site and the authoritative by-the-numbers source for all things USAF, Air Force Magazine is a must-read for the entire Air Force community. No other publication has more Air Force decision-maker readership. ABOUT THE MAGAZINE READERS THAT MATTER 85,000 subscribers, including: H Every Air Force 4-Star General H Every Air Force MAJCOM Commander H US Congress • Every HASC & SASC Committee Member • Key HASC & SASC Staff H Active, Guard & Reserve H Aerospace Industry The Air Force struggles to make the case for a new nuclear cruise missile Airmen attach AGM-86B cruise missiles to a B-52H at Minot AFB, because it can’t say much N.D., during a Global Thunder about it. exercise in 2016. The proposed Long-Range Standoff weapon will enable the B-52H to remain an effective part of USAF’s nuclear bomber force. First Lt. Victoria Rathbone (c) trains a pair of Civil Air Patrol ca- dets at JBSA-Lackland, Texas. THE LRSO ARGUMENTS he Long-Range Stand - and its potential to be “destabilizing.” By John A. Tirpak, Editorial Director off weapon, or LRSO, is The Air Force has said relatively in 2030. Gen. Robin Rand, commander Airmen at Dyess AFB, arguably the most con - little about LRSO, explaining that it of Air Force Global Strike Command, Texas, load a JASSM troversial element of the wants to keep adversaries guessing told the Senate Armed Services Com cruise missile. USAF Air Force’s strategic mod - - about its capabilities and technologies. mittee in June 2017 that the service had launched 19 JASSM ernization plan. While Last summer, Lockheed Martin and “dedicated $2.7 billion” to the program during a recent air there’s general—though between Fiscal 2018 and 2022. strike on Syria. frequently grudging—bipartisan con Raytheon each received $900 mil Cyberspace is a place, a domain—- - lion contracts to develop competing- What is known about LRSO is that it gressionalT support for replacing most like air, land, or sea—Weggeman em will be extremely stealthy and presum of the geriatric nuclear deterrence designs for the weapon, which will it is doing. This presents a challenge ably more accurate than the missiles- By Gideon Grudo, phasized. enterprise, there’s rather less enthusi succeed the AGM-86 Air Launched to both recruiting and funding: The THE CYBERit replaces. Industry and Air Force Digital Platforms Editor THE CYBER Unlike what is portrayed in movies— asm for LRSO, a stealthy cruise missile- Cruise Missile (ALCM) and, indirectly, American people and lawmakers are sources say it won’t be a hypersonic - that would be launched from B-52 the AGM-129 Advanced Cruise Missile largely unaware of who cyber warriors where troops at consoles fight video weapon, as that technology won’t be - bombers far outside enemy defenses (ACM). he US military is at con game-like battles in cyberspace, US ready for operational use in time. An are, what it takes to train them, what it or from B-21 stealth bombers that have stant war in cyberspace, AF’s digital warriors are “just one more Air Force document circulated last is they do, and what their challenges Photos: A1C Armstrong; J.T. SrA. Kedesha Pennant penetrated enemy airspace. AND THE WINNER IS ... summer referred to LRSO as hav fending off thousands of are. weapon in an all-domain, integrated The criticisms revolve around the A winning design will be chosen in ing the designation “AGM-180/181,” -a attacks and intrusions Twenty-fourth Air Force—known arsenal of effects in a whole-of-nation weapon’s cost, whether it’s needed, 2022, and after a development pro WARRIORSgram, operational service is expected- likely reference to the two competing every hour by relentless campaign,” he said. WARRIORS as Air Forces Cyber—holds the reins designs, although it could refer to a foes seeking to exploit the for USAF’s responsibility in the three- There are 133 teams comprising possible nuclear/conventional split slightest flaw in America’s part cyber mission set established by the Cyber Mission Force, apportioned the Department of Defense. They are : along the three guidelines set by DOD: defenses. ■■ The challenge: ■■■ ■ 21 counter cyber teams operate- TThe daunting challenge for those in Defend the US against cyber attacks in redJULY space—the 2018 H AIRFORCEMAG.COM non-US govern- charge: Run a well-funded,-organized, of significant consequence. 1 USAF must ■■ ment-controlled cyber realm—to de -equipped, and -manned cyber force ■ Secure, operate, and defend DOD’s fend the nation. build a highly while keeping largely silent about the networks and mission systems. ■■ ■■■44 cyber strike teams operate in- nature of the battle. - ■ Support combatant commanders red space to support combatant com skilled force it Cyber warriors are “constantly en- around the globe, delivering to them all-domain, integrated cyber effects. - manders. can’t say much gaged in a fight with multiple adver ■■■68 cyber hunter teams operate in saries,” said Maj. Gen. Christopher P. Thus, it’s not cyberwar USAF is wag in w a r.” blue space to defend DOD’s own cyber about, to perform Weggeman, head of 24th Air Force,- ing, but rather “cyber - These specialized warriors oper infrastructure. missions it can’t USAF’s component of US Cyber Com More than 6,000 military, civilian, mand. “If you want to put on that ate in, through, and from the cyber domain, helping the service fly, fight, and industry cyber warriors make up Studies in November. really discuss. superman cape and jersey and fight Air Force The response must be to “bring the future faster,” Holmes and win, Weggeman told this force. Of those, USAF alone puts- - for your country, believe it or not, the COMING TO explained, with a streamlined acquisition system that allows in an interview. While he forward more than 1,700 airmen, com most active warriors out there right Magazine obvious.” the US to field new systems “in a short number of years,” prising 39 teams, again broken down A steady parade of impressive new systems and invest - now are the cyber warriors.” - thinks the service and Congress are- not at the plodding pace it has settled into. by mission: By John A. Tirpak, Editorial Director ments by China, Russia, and other aspiring great powers What they do, though, must neces coming closer to grasping this gener Montes Alexandre SSgt. Turner/USAF; Jessica Photos/Illustrations: “FOREVER WAR”“The world is changing, and if the Air Force and Air ■■■12 national mission teams for the TERMS WITH - means the US will have to push harder and faster to keep sarily remain secret, so as not to tip al philosophy, the public, he said, is Combat Command don’t change with it, we’ll be disadvan Cyber National Mission Force he Air Force’s 27 years of standing as the world’s ahead—and maybe just to keep up. taged, and that’ll have an impact on the entire joint force,” probably not. “Smart, tough, capable peer adversaries have watched us” off the enemy about what the cyber unrivaled airpower are officially over. “Peer” com he asserted. “We’re back in a world with peer adversaries force knows, what it can do, and what petitors—the term “near-peer” has recently been since 1990, “and they took notes,” he observed. Now, they’ve where they’re fielding something new every day, and we MANNING AND - dropped from official language—now challenge “developed … smart asymmetric tools that are designed to have to be able either to modernize the tools that we bring America’s ability to control the skies in any conflict. counter our strengths … and exploit our weaknesses.” The or bring new tools and field them much faster.” MONEY ARE NEEDED The upshot is that the considerable capital invest US simply can’t posture itself and operate in ways it has gotten used to, or there will be ugly surprises ahead, he TO MAINTAIN WHAT Tment the United States made in air superiority 30 years ago must be warned in a speech to AFA’s Mitchell Institute for Aerospace made again, or the US may no longer hold significant advantages HAS BECOME USAF’S in a future conflict. USAF F-16s and South Korean F-15s on the line at This frank assessment came from Air Combat Command chief Daegu AB, South Korea, participating in Buddy PERMANENT WAR Gen. James “Mike” Holmes. He called this a “blinding flash of the Wing exercises to improve fighter interoperability. FOOTING. COVERAGE THAT COUNTS Air Force Magazine delivers must-read insights, In June, President Trump traveled to the G7 summit in Canada before proceeding to his summit news and perspective on the issues that matter meeting with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un. From Transporting the President Washington to Quebec to Singapore, USAF’s airlift Photo: SrA. Divine Cox and tanker aircraft transported the president and 1 H AIRFORCEMAG.COM most to leaders and decision makers throughout his entourage. MARCH 2018 the Air Force and Congress. A US Secret Service H AIRFORCEMAG.COM VC-25 is a specially configured Boeing photo shows 10 1 MARCH 2018 747-200B known as Air Force One when presidential motorcade transporting the president. vehicles secured in a USAF C-5 as the H president traveled to Manned and unmanned aircraft A C-17 Globemaster III Asia in 2017.