Air Force Magazine
Daily Report for Dec. 5, 2019

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USAF Pitch Bowl Planned for March
By <a class="author-link" href="[link removed]">Rachel S. Cohen</a>

The Air Force is gearing up to host its inaugural “Pitch Bowl” in March
2020, an event that will bring together the best ideas from the growing pool of
Pitch Days where companies try to snag a military contract without the
years-long wait of traditional procurement.

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E-4B Replacement Effort Seeks Industry Input
By <a class="author-link" href="[link removed]">Rachel S. Cohen</a>

Air Force officials will gather more information on a future aircraft fleet to
replace the E-4B National Airborne Operations Center, also known as the
“Nightwatch” or “Doomsday” plane, at an industry day in February 2020.
The service’s fiscal 2020 budget request noted that the Defense Department
could choose one airframe to consolidate the capabilities offered by the Air
Force’s E-4B and the Navy’s E-6B Mercury into an “optimized fleet”
dubbed the “Survivable Airborne Operations Center.”

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F-16 Damaged, but Pilot “in Good Condition” After Kunsan Crash
By <a class="author-link" href="[link removed]">Jennifer-Leigh Oprihory</a>

The unidentified F-16 pilot who was forced to eject during a routine landing on
Dec. 2 at Kunsan AB, South Korea, “was released in good condition” after
being sent to a medical center with “minor injuries,” according to the 8th
Fighter Wing. “While the aircraft sustained damage after the ejection, there
was no damage to other base assets or property,” the wing wrote in a Dec. 4
release. The wing has also resumed flying operations at the base.

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First Weapons School Space Warfighting Course Graduates
By <a class="author-link" href="[link removed]">Brian W. Everstine</a>

Six airmen last month became the first graduates of the new US Air Force Weapons
School class aimed at training space warfighters. The new 1C6 Space Warfighter
Advanced Instructor Course is aimed at providing advanced academic training to
plan and “integrate space capabilities into joint operations.”

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Sailor Kills 2, Himself in Attack at Pearl Harbor Shipyard

The military says a US sailor shot and killed two civilian Defense Department
employees at the Pearl Harbor shipyard before taking his own life. Joint Base
Pearl Harbor-Hickam has reopened following a lockdown.

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‘If He Was on the Battlefield, He Probably Would’ve Been Shot in the Back’—Inside the Toxic Command of Air Force Lt. Gen. Lee Levy

There are good leaders and bad leaders, and then there are leaders whose command
climates are so toxic and humiliating that they make deployments seem like a
cakewalk. Air Force Lt. Gen. Lee Levy II was in the third category, according to
a recent Inspector General report. The 80-page report was unwavering in its
condemnation of Levy, who, as head of the Air Force Sustainment Center based in
Tinker Air Force Base, was responsible for nearly 43,000 airmen, multiple supply
chain wings and air base wings, and nearly two dozen operating locations both
within and outside the continental US.

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Several Rockets Land Near Iraqi Base Housing US Troops

The US-led coalition combating the Islamic State group said Dec. 3 that several
rockets landed outside the Iraqi al-Asad airbase, which houses American troops.
No facilities were hit and there were no injuries.

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Griffin: DOD Can’t Rely on Commercial Satellite Communications

Communications satellite constellations such as those being launched by SpaceX,
OneWeb, Telesat, and Amazon haven’t proven they can make money so the Pentagon
needs to build its own Low Earth Orbit network, says Defense Department Research
and Engineering czar Mike Griffin.

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Air Force F-35 Simulator Will Let Pilots Fly in Formation, Talk to Other Aircraft

When the US Air Force gets its first F-35 Lightning II distributed mission
training simulator system at Nellis AFB, Nev., this spring, pilots will have the
ability to fly virtually as a group, alongside other aircraft, and practice
exchanging information across a network, according to Lockheed Martin officials.

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Small Contractors Struggle to Meet Cybersecurity Standards, Pentagon Finds

Small companies are struggling to meet the Pentagon’s newish network security
rules, and even larger contractors aren’t doing as well as they think they
are, a recent department study has found.

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When Do Cyberattacks Deserve a Response from NATO?

That question, on so-called Article 5 intrusions, has intrigued cybersecurity
experts since the organization declared cyberspace a domain of warfare in 2016.
But a more immediate question may be how NATO and its member nations confront
the daily cyber events that never rise to the threshold of armed attacks.

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One More Thing...
Astronauts Will Soon Get to Light a Fire Onboard the ISS

It’s usually never a good idea to play with fire, and that goes double inside
a spacecraft 250 miles above Earth. But in the coming weeks, astronauts aboard
the International Space Station will be told to light a fire inside a miniature
wind tunnel, in an effort to understand how fire behaves and spreads in
microgravity.

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