Air Force Magazine
Daily Report for Feb. 8, 2021
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Edited by Amy McCullough with Rachel S. Cohen, Jennifer-Leigh Oprihory and John A. Tirpak
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USAF Launches Global Base Security Review After Andrews Breach
By Jennifer-Leigh Oprihory
Acting Air Force Secretary John P. Roth and USAF Chief of Staff Gen. Charles Q.
Brown Jr. ordered the Air Force Inspector General to conduct a “comprehensive
review of installation security and trends” following the Feb. 4 breach at
Joint Base Andrews, Md., in which an unarmed civilian man made his way onto a
C-40B aircraft before being apprehended, the department said in a statement. The
review will cover Air Force and Space Force installations across the globe,
Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby noted during a Feb. 5 press briefing. It is
the second deep-dive into USAF base security practices since 2017.
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Lasers Come to the Digital Battlefield in New Exercise
By Rachel S. Cohen
Fighter pilots can’t yet fire lasers on their real jets, but a new wargame
series will let them try it out in cyberspace. Armed with computers and virtual
reality headsets, F-16 pilots, F-15E weapon system officers, and an E-3 Airborne
Warning and Control System air battle manager worked through various uses for an
airborne laser against air-to-air and surface-to-air threats. The practice helps
pave the way for the SHiELD laser pod and more powerful versions in the future.
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AEI On Flat Budgets: Keep the People, Reduce Force Structure
By John A. Tirpak
If defense budgets are going to be flat, Pentagon leaders should opt for a
different set of tradeoffs, emphasizing larger numbers of people and innovative
concepts and less force structure and modernization as the right formula for
near- and long-term readiness, according to a new policy paper from the American
Enterprise Institute.
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Biden’s Pentagon to Keep Turkey Out of F-35 Program
By Rachel S. Cohen
The Biden administration is continuing its predecessor’s policy of excluding
Turkey from the international F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program, Pentagon
spokesman John Kirby indicated Feb. 5. Pentagon officials kicked Turkey, a NATO
ally, out of the F-35 coalition because it bought the S-400 air defense system
from Russia—a purchase the U.S. has said puts American military information at
risk. “Our position has not changed,” Kirby said at a Pentagon press
briefing. “The S-400 is incompatible with the F-35 and Turkey has been
suspended from that program.”
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30 Years After Desert Storm: Feb. 8
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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Guard Deployment to Secure D.C. Will Cost Nearly $500 Million
The cost of deploying about 26,000 National Guard troops to secure the U.S.
Capitol in the wake of the deadly Jan. 6 riot is nearly $500 million, U.S.
military officials said Feb. 4.
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Pentagon to Deploy 1,100 Troops to Help COVID-19 Vaccination Efforts
President Joe Biden’s administration on Feb. 5 announced that the Pentagon had
approved the deployment of 1,100 Active-duty troops to assist with COVID-19
vaccination efforts in the United States, a number likely to rise in the coming
weeks and months. The pandemic has killed more than 447,000 Americans and thrown
millions out of work.
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Boeing, Raytheon Missile Sales to Saudi Arabia Paused by Biden Administration
The Biden administration has paused indefinitely two precision guided munition
sales to Saudi Arabia, worth as much as $760 million, as part of a new policy
aimed at curtailing violence in Yemen, Defense News has learned.
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AFRL’s WeaponONE Aims to Rapidly Build Digital Design, Engineering Tools
The Air Force Research Laboratory’s WeaponONE is serving as a pathfinder
program for Air Force Materiel Command's digital campaign to integrate digital
tools into its operations.
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Pentagon Leaders Discuss Challenges of Moving Data to and from the Tactical Edge
Officials described their goals as they begin implementing the Defense
Department’s enterprise-wide data strategy.
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Sources: High-Powered Explosives Missing, Possibly Stolen from Southern California Military Base
Military officials are working to recover high powered explosives that vanished
from a Southern California installation, according to ABC 10News' sources with
close military ties. The explosives disappeared from Marine Corps Air Ground
Combat Center Twentynine Palms, Calif., and now a reward is being offered for
their discovery, sources told the outlet.
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One More Thing...
Floaty Bois and Homo Spaciens: Space Force Reveals List of Rejected Troop Names
Those questionable offerings were among about 400 suggestions on what to call
members of the military's newest branch, submitted by Air Force and Space Force
members before "Guardians" was chosen in December, according to a list provided
to Military.com on Feb. 5.
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