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Expeditionary Airlift 36 | Mosaic Warfare 51 |Madam SECAF 41 |Space Launch Takes O 20 Expeditionary Airlift 36 | Mosaic Warfare 51 | Madam SECAF 41 |Space Launch Takes O 20 SUSTAINMENT POWER How New-Age Tech Is Solving Age-Old Problems | 30 November 2019 $8 Published by the Air Force Association GTP_10289_AFA_B-52_8.5x11Ad_2019_v03.indd 1 8/23/19 2:59 PM STAFF Publisher Bruce A. Wright November 2019. Vol. 102, No. 10 Editor in Chief Tobias Naegele Managing Editor Juliette Kelsey Chagnon Editorial Director John A. Tirpak News Editor Photo: Brian Everstine/sta Everstine/sta Brian Photo: Amy McCullough Assistant DEPARTMENTS FEATURES Loadmasters Managing Editor 2 Editorial: hitch a ride on the Chequita Wood 6 Q&A: A New Way to Build Fighters back of a C-130 Playing the Senior Designer An exclusive interview with USAF acquisition as another comes Numbers Dashton Parham By Tobias chief Will Roper. down the line Naegele during exercise Pentagon Editor 30 Smart Sustainment Mobility Guard- Brian W. Everstine 3 Letters ian. See “Combat Digital Platforms By John A. Tirpak Heavies,” p. 36. 5 Index to The Rapid Sustainment O ice set out to save time and Editor Advertisers Jennifer-Leigh money by investing in new maintenance technology. After Oprihory 29 Verbatim just one year, the results are promising. Senior Editor 8 Strategy & 36 Combat Heavies Rachel S. Cohen Policy: Time Production to Revisit Roles By Brian W. Everstine Manager and Missions Mobility forces practice for peer conflict. Eric Chang Lee 10 Airframes 41 Proven Prowess Photo Editor Mike Tsukamoto 16 World: New By Rachel S. Cohen tanker still years away; A Women have successfully led the Air Force. Why has no other service had a female as its top civilian? bigger bomber Contributors force; Ambitious John T. Correll, Lt. launch plans 46 Disaster in the Philippines Gen. David Dep- for space; and By John T. Correll more ... tula, USAF (Ret.), Ten hours after Pearl Harbor, the Japanese caught US air- Robert S. Dudney, 28 Faces of the planes on the ground—again. Mark Gunzinger, Force Heather Penney, 64 Namesakes: 51 Mosaic Warfare Maj. Gen. Law- Luke By Lt. Gen. David A. Deptula, USAF (Ret.), and Heather rence Stutzreim, Penney, with Maj. Gen. Lawrence Stutzreim, USAF (Ret.), USAF (Ret.) and Mark Gunzinger Designing a new way of war to restore America’s military competitiveness. 56 AFA Almanac ON THE COVER By Chequita Wood ADVERTISING: A compendium of facts and figures about the Air Force Kirk Brown Association. Director, Media Solutions 703.247.5829 [email protected] SUBSCRIBE & SAVE Photo: Heide Couch/USAF Photo: Airmen atop the Subscribe to tail of a C-5M. Air Force Magazine See “Smart Sus- and save big o¡ tainment,” p. 30. the cover price, plus get a free membership to the Air Force Association. 1-800-727-3337 Air Force Magazine (ISSN 0730-6784) November 2019 (Vol. 102, No. 10) is published monthly, except for two double issues in January/February and July/August, by the Air Force Association, 1501 Lee Highway, Arlington, VA 22209-1198. Phone (703) 247-5800. Periodical postage paid at Arlington, Va., and additional mailing o ices. Membership Rate: $50 per year; $35 e-Membership; $125 for three-year membership. Subscription Rate: $50 per year; $29 per year additional for postage to foreign addresses (except Canada and Mexico, which are $10 per year additional). Regular issues $8 each. USAF Almanac issue $18 each. Change of address requires four weeks’ notice. Please include mailing label. POSTMASTER: Send changes of address to Air Force Association, 1501 Lee Highway, Arlington, VA 22209-1198. Publisher assumes no responsibility for unsolicited material. Trademark registered by Air Force Association. Copyright 2019 by Air Force Association. NOVEMBER AIRFORCEMAG.COM EDITORIAL By Tobias Naegele Playing the Numbers he Air Force plans to radically shift funding priorities in its next air superiority and one of USAF’s strategic advantages. But, refueling budget to pay for future network connectivity to support its vision capacity is already challenged and the planned retirement of the KC-10 Tof multi-domain command and control (MDC2). For example, may be accelerated. Meanwhile, Miller says the Air Force may have it might surrender some of its most heavily worn B-1 bombers, and to reprogram funds to retain as many as 28 KC-135 Stratotankers to possibly retire F-15Cs and older F-16s, in order to free up funding to make up for the fact the KC-46 won’t be available. Still unclear: If the build a mesh-network combat cloud. Air Force continues to accept new airplanes at a rate of 2-3 per month, The idea is to accept additional risk today in order to ensure less risk even with a flawed remote vision system, will those airplanes be left to tomorrow. But this strategy itself is a high-risk endeavor. Historically, sit idle? Or will they devour manpower and training funds while Boeing, when the Air Force attempted similar trades, they backfired: The service the plane’s builder, works out the kinks in design and functionality? ended up losing both current capability and future funding. The Air ■Fighters. USAF’s fighter force is aging, and the service isn’t buying Force can ill a ord such a lose-lose scenario. enough airplanes fast enough to reverse the trend. Retiring the oldest Chief of Sta Gen. David L. Goldfein is committed to maintaining F-15Cs and Block 30 F-16s could save some money in the short term, today’s “hot lines” for F-35 fighters, B-21 bombers, KC-46 tankers, and but doing so will accelerate the wear and tear on newer models, which T-7A trainers. He’s also committed to building F-15EX fighters. Exactly will be worked harder if the number of fighters shrinks. which weapons and platforms the Air Force is prepared to give up ■MQ-9 Reapers and Global Hawk. Unmanned drones are the remains a closely held secret. Every option for cuts has both risks signature aircraft of the past decade, providing persistent ISR and and rewards. precision strike capability throughout the Central Command theater Retiring B-1 bombers would further diminish the Air Force’s bomber of operations. In many ways, Reapers and Global Hawks have altered force at a time when bomber demand has been high, driven up by perceptions of modern warfare. Yet they have also operated exclusively bombers’ versatility and cost e ectiveness. A single bomber today in a highly permissive environment. Is it time to start dialing back on can deliver the same munitions load in a single strike as an entire a capability that cannot function in contested airspace? Maybe. But, aircraft carrier air wing. doing so could undermine US capacity to fight the kinds of wars our The Air Force was already planning to retire both the B-1 and the nation has faced for the past quarter century. B-2 well before the future B-21 is fully deployed. But Since becoming Air Force Chief of Sta three “The Air Force We Need” calls for five more bomber Joint capabilities must years ago, Goldfein has steadfastly advanced his squadrons than exist today and Air Force leaders be funded jointly. vision for multi-domain warfare—essentially a hy- universally acknowledge they’re going to need more per-speed implementation of joint warfare enabled B-21 bombers than called for in the current plan. So, giving up capacity by robust networks, artificial intelligence, and powerful data processing. today will only increase the shortfall for years to come. The problem is The idea is to present our adversaries with such an overwhelming range especially stark when one looks at what allies bring to the fight. Most of threats and risks that mounting a successful defense is essentially allies have fighters and airlift. Only a few have aerial refuelers. None impossible. If that is the case, potential enemies will choose not to risk have bombers. confrontation with the US or its allies. So what else might the Air Force consider giving up? The options The Air Force Chief has the right sight picture and Gen. Mark aren’t attractive: Milley, the new Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Sta , agrees. A year ■A-10 Thunderbolts. The Air Force has tried—and failed—repeatedly ago, as Army chief, he embraced multi-domain operations, saying it to retire the low and slow “Warthog,” but its 30 mm cannon is a crowd is about “winning on tomorrow’s battlefield by simultaneously achiev- pleaser among muddy boots soldiers and Marines, and Congress is ing overwhelming battlefield dominance and overmatch in all five loath to give up a weapon that protects those at greatest risk on the domains of warfare,” and described shifting from “battles of attrition field of battle. Never mind that ground troops shouldn’t be put into to battles of cognition, where we think, direct, and act at speeds the positions in which their very survival depends on a Warthog blasting enemy cannot match.” an enemy at danger-close range. As long as that’s a possibility, the The challenge is getting to that end state. Today’s Air Force is too A-10 remains a better option than the Army’s Apache helicopter, and small for the missions it has. The chief is committed to building up experiencing it bearing down from above holds a distinct psychological to 386 operational squadron, but forming a distinct Space Force will advantage over bombs delivered from B-52s circling at 30,000 feet. only exacerbate funding problems, drawing away funding for essential ■C-130s. The Air Force’s airlift shortage is in larger aircraft, such as needs such as jam-proof GPS III satellites and new communications C-17s; there are plenty of C-130s to go around.
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