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U.S. Air Dominance in a Fiscally Constrained Environment: Defining Paths to the Future Dominant airpower is essential to virtually every operation the U.S. military conducts. It is an essential component of the U.S. military’s “DNA.” Budget cuts, shrinking force structure, poor investments in modernization, technological innovation and a growing anti-access/area denial (A2/AD) threat are combining to call into question the Department of Defense’s ability to maintain dominant air power in future conflicts.
The Right Way To Modernize: The Army’s Airborne Reconnaissance Low Planes The U.S. Army maintains a small fleet of fixed-wing aircraft for providing timely reconnaissance to its commanders during combat operations. The most capable such planes are EO-5C Airborne Reconnaissance . . .
U.S. Air Dominance: Global Precision Strike The first conflict dominated by precision strike capabilities, Desert Storm, occurred more than two decades ago. Since then, all conflicts in which the United States has engaged . . .
America Needs To Develop A New Bomber Now The Lexington Institute has prepared a concise study explaining why development of the Air Force's Long Range Strike Bomber (LRS-B) is essential to national security. The following summary captures . . .
Competitive Defense Contracting: When It Makes Sense (and When It Doesn’t) Competition has become the mantra of the Department of Defense’s (DoD) acquisition corps. The Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology & Logistics, Mr. Frank Kendall has gone on record saying “I think that nothing, nothing, works better than competition to drive cost down.”
Tactical Aircraft and the Preservation of U.S. Air Dominance The case for focusing on air dominance has its roots in the most successful of U.S. military operations. One built around it was the invasion of Normandy. Air dominance was the . . .
U.S. Air Dominance: Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance The United States has enjoyed global air dominance for many decades. No U.S. soldier on the ground has been killed by hostile aircraft since the Korean War, and no U.S. pilot in . . .
Toward A 21st Century Defense Logistics Enterprise Historically the focus of the defense acquisition and sustainment system has swung pendulum-like between two policy objectives. At one end of the arc, the goal is effectiveness: insuring that the military . . .
Modernizing the Air Force’s Electronic Aircraft Fleet The U.S. Air Force operates a fleet of six dozen intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) aircraft based on the old Boeing 707 airframe that are essential to the . . .
Averting Catastrophe In Cyberspace: Core Requirements The information revolution has transformed every facet of commerce and culture, including the military enterprise. Unfortunately, it has also empowered extremists, criminals . . .
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