Air Force Magazine – July-August 2019

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“I understand ... about quarterly earn-

ings statements and bottom lines. But,

just as I have to think about the close

fight and the deep fight, what I am

asking Industry to do is think about the

close fight and the deep fight. What may

be convenient for you in the close fight,

may be inconsistent with your interests

in the deep fight as you start seeing a

world that isn’t informed by US leader-

ship—that isn’t informed by US values.”

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Marine

Corps Gen. Joseph F. Dunford Jr., upon receiving

the Eisenhower Award from National Defense

Industrial Association [May 10].

“If the US is to compete effectively

with our near-peer adversaries, we

must realign our approach to the

information environment. Our gov-

ernment currently deals with the

infospace in a reactive and disjointed

manner—there is no standardized po-

litical-military doctrine or interagency

methodology guiding our responses

to information warfare attacks. In

many ways, DOD should approach

the infospace as it does physical

space—by mapping, analyzing, and

maneuvering in the information en-

vironment with the same principles

currently applied to geospatial terrain

and human networks. Instead of

treating the infospace as an add-on to

kinetic operations, we need to accept

it as the primary operational domain

for day-to-day competitive activities.”

Center for Naval Analysis report [May 2019].

SIGN

ME UP

“I had to

come back on

to Active Duty

for this. It’s

really a once-

in-a-lifetime

opportunity to

almost start

from scratch

and build a

new base.”

Brig. Gen. Patrice

A. Melancon, on

rebuilding hurri-

cane-damaged

Tyndall AFB, Fla.

[June 6].

“Our vision is

to eliminate

passwords,

... continuous

multifactor

authentication

(CMFA) will

run seam-

lessly in the

background

allowing ac-

cess through

biometric data

distinct to each

user.”

DISA Director

Vice Adm. Nancy

Norton in her

keynote address at

AFCEA’s TechNet

Cyber Conference

in Baltimore

[May 16].

Bravo!!

“I could kiss Putin. Not just because

he’s an attractive, short, shirtless man,

but because he made election security

a bipartisan [issue].”

Lt. Gen. Bradford J. Shwedo, director for command,

control, communications, and computers/cyber and

chief information officer for the Joint Staff, on the

power of a common enemy in rallying the interest of

national leaders to defend against cyber attacks on

the election system during a lecture at the Mitchell

Institute for Aerospace Studies [June 6].

“There aren’t

a whole lot of

places where

good airspace

and good

schools go

together.”

Gen. Mike Holmes
on one of the prob-
lems in retaining
pilots who have
families, at Air
Force Life Cycle
Industry Days,
Dayton, Ohio,
[June 19].

Higher

Learning

“I don’t trust the Air Force, on its own,

within its existing structure, to properly

prioritize space. And I would challenge

anyone who’s gonna argue that point

with me.”

HASC Chairman Rep. Adam Smith (D-Wash.)

to defense reporters [June 10].

“Pirates
threaten the
open seas.
And the same
is possible
in space. In
this way, too,
I believe we
now should
recognize the
necessity of a
Space Force.”

Sen. Ted Cruz
(R-Texas), re-
marks at Senate
Committee on
Commerce, Sci-
ence, and Trans-
portation subcom-
mittee hearing on
space and aviation
[May 15].

HELP

WANTED

No Lipstick Needed

VERBATIM

Photo: PLA Rocket Force

Photo: Russia’s Presidential Press & Information O ice

Photo: SSgt. Thomas Swanson

Graphic: SVG SILH

Graphic: Mike Tsukamoto/sta

Photo: SSgt. Janiqua Robinson

Look Before You Leap

Pirates

in

Spaaace

Information

Warfare

“Do you believe in this world there are

UFOs?”

China’s Peoples Liberation Army Rocket

Force, on its official Weibo social media account,

showing a mobile ICBM launcher

[June 2019].

Unidentified

Flying Object

Photo: PO1C Dominique Piniero/USN