Air Force Secretary vows to protect personnel over modernization
Politico Morning Defense Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James says she'd protect personnel over modernization should the service become fiscally stretched, a possibility in the next 18 months to three years. "We need it all. We need people. We need readiness. We need modernization. It's not an 'either-or' position," James told reporters today at the Air Force Association's Air Space Cyber Conference at National Harbor, Md. "With that said, if you're asking, 'If we come up ag
Congress inches toward spending deal as conservatives fume-POLITICO
The GOP-led House is less willing to go along with provisions that explicitly allow Planned Parenthood to tap into federal funding. President Barack Obama and the top four congressional leaders met at the White House on Monday as Congress neared an interim spending plan that seemingly everyone on Capitol Hill can endorse except one critical faction: conservative House Republicans. Senators and aides said Monday lawmakers were still discussing the contours of a deal that would
Freight Train to Space
In order to stay ahead in the increasingly "contested environment" of space, the Air Force "will move to a freight train to space model," Brig. Gen. Stephen Whiting said Friday. Speaking at an AFA Mitchell Institute talk in Washington, DC, Whiting said "frequent, regularly scheduled launches from common launch platforms with standard interfaces" are a key piece of the Air Force's Space Enterprise Vision. The strategy looks to revamp the space program to better defend US milit
US Unprepared for Space War
The key mission for the US space program is to fight war, but because much of US space infrastructure was developed in an era "when space was considered a benign environment, little thought was given to system protection or defense," said Brig. Gen. Stephen Whiting Friday in Washington, D.C. Speaking at an AFA Mitchell Institute event, Whiting said as a result the US is unprepared to protect and defend its space assets. "Today the US space enterprise is not resilient enough t
