Air Force Magazine
Daily Report for Feb. 1, 2021
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Edited by Amy McCullough with Rachel S. Cohen, Brian W. Everstine and Jennifer-Leigh Oprihory
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Space Force to Adopt ‘Specialist,’ Other New Ranks Feb. 1
By Rachel S. Cohen
The Space Force will drop the rank system it inherited from the Air Force for a
new set that combines Air Force and Army names, the service said in a Jan. 29
memo to Guardians. A Space Force spokesman confirmed the authenticity of the
memo, which was posted on a Facebook page popular with Airmen. It’s the latest
move to forge the new service’s own path forward as it tries to establish a
culture separate from the Air Force it came from in December 2019. For example,
enlisted Guardians from E-1 to E-5 will be known as Specialist 1, Specialist 2,
Specialist 3, Specialist 4, and Sergeant. Ranks will stay the same as the Air
Force on the officer side.
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USAFA Cracking Down on Students for Widespread Cheating Last Spring
By Rachel S. Cohen
The U.S. Air Force Academy has kicked out students and reprimanded others after
nearly 250 cadets were suspected of using online learning to cheat on tests and
plagiarize assignments last spring. “Infractions ranged from failing to
properly cite sources, to using unauthorized online tutoring websites to receive
solutions to exam questions in real time, to completing final exams in small
groups,” the school said Jan. 29. They were caught through “existing Dean of
Faculty academic safeguards,” and most of the 249 students admitted to
cheating, USAFA said.
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Top ISIS Leader in Iraq Killed in Coalition Airstrike
By Brian W. Everstine
A U.S.-led coalition airstrike killed the leader of the Islamic State group in
Iraq on Jan. 27, a blow to the group’s effort to grow and continue operating.
The coalition aircraft were supporting an Iraqi Counter Terrorism Service raid
near Kirkuk, which killed the leader “Abu Yasir” and 10 other ISIS members,
Combined Joint Task Force-Operation Inherent Resolve spokesman Col. Wayne
Marotto said on Twitter. “The Coalition will continue to remove key leaders
from the battlefield and degrade the terrorist organization,” Marotto said.
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Guard Has Given Out Nearly 38K COVID-19 Vaccines to Troops
By Jennifer-Leigh Oprihory
As of the afternoon of Jan. 29, the National Guard Bureau had given out more
than 37,580 COVID-19 vaccines to its uniformed personnel, with about 4,000
troops having received the two doses needed to grant maximum protection against
the virus, Air Force Maj. Gen. Jerry L. Fenwick, director of NGB’s Office of
the Joint Surgeon, told reporters during a Jan. 29 press call.
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30 Years After Desert Storm: Feb. 1
In commemoration of the 30th Anniversary of Operation Desert Storm, Air Force
Magazine is posting daily recollections from the six-week war, which expelled
Iraq from occupied Kuwait.
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Radar Sweep
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Snapshot: DOD and COVID-19
Here's a look at how the Defense Department is being impacted by and responding
to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Mitchell Institute’s ‘Aerospace Advantage’ Podcast, Ep. 8: ‘National Security Space Operations with Chief of the Space Force General Jay Raymond’
In Episode 8 of "Aerospace Advantage," Space Force Chief of Space Operations
Gen. John W. "Jay" Raymond explains his future vision for his service,
challenges and opportunities in the national security space domain, and what
it’s been like standing up the nation’s newest service. Host and retired Air
Force Lt. Col. John Baum and Mitchell Institute Dean and retired USAF Lt. Gen.
Dave Deptula also discuss the broader circumstances regarding national security
space and the creation of the Space Force. Bottom line: Space is vital to
America’s interests, and the Space Force must be empowered for success.
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The World is Facing an Upsurge of Nuclear Proliferation
Thirty-one countries, from Brazil to Sweden, have flirted with nuclear weapons
at one time or another. Seventeen launched a formal weapons programme. Just ten
produced a deliverable bomb. Today nine states possess nuclear arms, no more
than a quarter-century ago. Yet the long struggle to stop the world’s
deadliest weapons from spreading is about to get harder. In the past 20 years
most countries with nuclear ambitions have been geopolitical minnows, like Libya
and Syria. In the next decade the threat is likely to include economic and
diplomatic heavyweights whose ambitions would be harder to restrain.
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Pentagon’s AI Center Steers International Forum to Advance Military Tech Cooperation
Artificial intelligence-ready data was a primary point of discussion this week
among military and defense delegations from 13 nations that connected in a
two-day exchange hosted by the Pentagon’s Joint Artificial Intelligence
Center.
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OPINION: The Next Steps For the Pentagon's AI Hub
“As the two-year-old Joint Artificial Intelligence Center shifts from a
projects-and-products shop to the Pentagon’s hub for AI services and support,
its leaders are working on priorities for ‘JAIC 2.0.,’ write Center for
Strategic and Budgetary Assessments Senior Fellow Chris Bassler and Active-duty
U.S. Navy Capt. Bryan Durkee. “We suggest the center focus on six main
efforts.”
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DARPA Announces Results of First-Ever Bug Bounty Focused on Hardware Security
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency announced the completion of its
first ever bug bounty program, with the project validating the agency's work on
secure hardware architectures. The "Finding Exploits to Thwart Tampering" bug
bounty was held between July and October 2020, with the agency spending the last
three months reviewing the 13,000 hours of "hacking exploits" by more than 580
cybersecurity researchers.
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Guard Has to Order from D.C. Restaurants After Food Contract Comes Up Short
A food contract between a supplier and the National Guard did not provide enough
meals, forcing units still deployed to Washington to buy local, Military.com has
learned. Because of the mix-up and shortage of meals, the Guard resorted to
buying "a large quantity of various food choices off of the local economy,"
according to Army Maj. Aaron Thacker, a Guard Bureau spokesman.
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One More Thing...
Odd Couple: How a Republican Senator and Biden’s Defense Secretary Became Friends Downrange
Long before he was Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), he was Marine Reserve Maj. Dan
Sullivan, tapped to write U.S. Central Command’s strategy document and, by his
telling, not getting much help from the subordinate commanders in the region.
That is, until he went to Lloyd J. Austin III, then CENTCOM’s two-star chief
of staff.
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