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Year of Progress
Year of Progress: Altho ugh the Air Force in mid August put its plans on hold to activate a major command for cyberspace on Oct. 1, the work of the service’s provisional cyber organization in the past year has significantly advanced the Air Force’s understanding of how it will train, organize, equip, fight—and prevail—in this realm, says the service’s point man for these efforts. "That's something we didn't have a year ago," said Maj. Gen. William Lord, commander of Air Force Cyber Command (Provisional) at Barksdale AFB, La. He continued: "We've figured all that out. We've outlined how to organize cyber forces, i.e., what capabilities fall into, or not into, a cyber organization.” Indeed, no matter what organizational construct the Air Force leadership opts for in the coming days, the efforts by his “tremendously talented and dedicated” staff have “laid the foundation” for “a strong future cyberspace capability,” he said. Along the way, AFCYBER(P) has fostered better integration of air, cyber, and space assets, contributed to better integration with the other services and government agencies, and influenced how the US industrial base is shaped to support cyber, he said. And while the deliberations continue over the fate of the Air Force’s cyber organization, the service is not pausing to establish new cyberspace career fields and training opportunities, including the new master's degree program in cyber operations, Lord said. (Barksdale report by Karen Petitt)
10/3/2008
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Preemptive Action
"Since the [Defense] Department's acceptance of the independent estimates last fall, we've been, in just about every respect, acting as if the program were in a Nunn-McCurdy breach. ... We've been taking all of the mitigating and corrective action that we would take as if there were a Nunn-McCurdy breach."
—Air Force Secretary Michael Donley, discussing with reporters the restructure of the F-35 strike fighter program announced in February 2010 and the probability that the program will soon exceed Nunn-McCurdy cost-monitoring thresholds that would necessitate, per US law, a program review and corrective steps, Washington, D.C., March 2, 2010. |
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Message for Grandma
"She has working for her as a citizen in the United States an Air Force Reserve that has some very talented, capable, patriotic, and willing individuals doing the business to keep this nation free. Just like her generation—the 'Greatest Generation'—was, I am very proud of the folks that we have got. If not the second greatest, then they are an extension of the greatest generation and they are ready, willing, and able to do the things that she would want them to do to make sure we keep our freedoms."
—Lt. Gen. Charles Stenner, Air Force Reserve chief, responding to a reporter's question on what the reporter should tell his 85-year-old grandmother to convey to her the importance of Air Force Reservists to the nation's security, Orlando, Fla., Feb. 19, 2010.
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