The U.S. Air Force has awarded 67 companies positions on a potential nine-year, $975 million contract to help the Air Force Rapid Sustainment Office optimize the operational readiness of deployed weapon systems. The Department of Defense said Tuesday the 771st Enterprise Sourcing Squadron at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio received 68 offers...
Venice Goodwine, the Department of the Air Force’s chief information officer, accepted her 2024 Wash100 Award from Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson during the Potomac Officers Club’s 2024 Air Defense Summit. Garrettson founded the Wash100 Award in 2014 to celebrate the foremost change-makers shaping the government contr...
The U.S. Air Force is working to integrate Secretary Frank Kendall’s seven operational imperatives, or OIs, to acquire new technologies, conduct research and face potential global threats in the modern battlefield. Timothy Grayson, special assistant to the Air Force secretary, discussed during the Potomac Officers Club’s 2024 Air Defense S...
The Department of the Air Force is currently undertaking multiple artificial intelligence-related initiatives, one of which is a generative AI chatbot called NIPRGPT. During her keynote address at the Potomac Officers Club’s 2024 Air Defense Summit, DAF Chief Information Officer Venice Goodwine shared how she’s approaching AI and gave ...
At the much-discussed current “strategic inflection point” the U.S. finds itself — considering geopolitical disturbances like the war in Ukraine and competition from the ‘pacing threat’ of China — achieving “cost-effective mass” is the most effective strategy for deterrence, argues Melissa Dalton, under secretary of the U.S. Air For...
The State Department has approved Saudi Arabia’s potential $2.8 billion foreign military sales request to purchase from the U.S. government follow-on logistics and sustainment support services for its air force’s aircraft fleets and existing platforms. The Defense Security Cooperation Agency said Tuesday the proposed FMS deal covers support for ...
Francisco Salguero, a more than 25-year information technology executive, has joined the Department of the Air Force as chief information officer for Air Force A1 within the Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Manpower, Personnel and Services, GovCon Wire has learned. In this capacity, Salguero will provide guidance for the development of plans...
Brig. Gen. Jason Bartolomei has assumed command of the Air Force Research Laboratory, the scientific research and development detachment of the U.S. Air Force Materiel Command at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio. The Air Force said Friday the new AFRL commander was most recently the program executive officer for weapons and director of ...
Artificial intelligence has become a key driver of innovation and technological advancement both on and off the battlefield. The U.S. Air Force in particular has placed a heavy focus recently on adopting and integrating AI in multiple areas. Here are just a few of the Air Force’s key AI efforts: Gen AI Chatbots The Air...
The U.S. Air Force has issued a request for information to determine the availability of industry capabilities that could support the establishment of a globally connected network designed to provide deployed users with multiple transport paths to communicate with stakeholders in classified and unclassified environments. Air Mobility Command has ide...
