Air Force Magazine
Daily Report for Dec. 9, 2019
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Agreement Reached on NDAA
By Brian W. Everstine
Senate and House conferees have reached an agreement on the fiscal 2020 National
Defense Authorization Act, with a vote expected on Dec. 9, key lawmakers said.
Defense Secretary Mark Esper said it is essential the NDAA fully authorize the
creation of the Space Force.
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USAF Officials: Create Space Force to be Effective on Day One
By Brian W. Everstine
The architects and initial leaders of the prospective Space Force need to ensure
it is immediately ready to be an equal among established military branches,
while the formation of the new service should be used as a way to shake up
established acquisition processes, top USAF officials said.
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USAF, Navy, Army to Exercise All-Domain C2
By Brian W. Everstine
The Air Force’s vision of joint, all-domain command and control will come
together in an exercise later this month, where several fifth-generation USAF
and Navy fighters will talk to a destroyer as Army systems feed data to a small
tent on the Florida panhandle.
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Security Under Review Following Pensacola Shooting
By Brian W. Everstine
The military is reviewing its security precautions and vetting of foreign
nationals training at US bases following the Dec. 6 shooting at NAS Pensacola,
Fla., but military officials are cautioning about cutting back on this training
in the future. Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. David Goldfein, said Dec. 7 that he
is worried how this incident might impact interoperability with allies,
partners, and the US, which he called “an asymmetric advantage.”
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Esper: Report of Potential Middle East Deployment “Flat Out Wrong”
By Rachel S. Cohen and Jennifer-Leigh Oprihory
Defense Secretary Mark Esper on Dec. 6 refuted a recent Wall Street Journal
report that the US is contemplating sending 14,000 more troops to the Middle
East.
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Offutt Security Forces Turn Dorm into New Office
By Rachel S. Cohen
The 55th Security Forces Squadron at Offutt AFB, Neb., is taking up residence in
a base dormitory as its new office until a more permanent facility is ready,
following a historic flood earlier this year.
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Patrick Gives All-Clear After Bomb Threat
By Rachel S. Cohen
Patrick AFB, Fla., is allowing people to return to an area of the base where a
bomb threat was reported Dec. 6, according to a base spokesman.
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Radar Sweep
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US Says Drone Shot Down by Russian Air Defenses Near Libyan Capital
The US military believes that an unarmed American drone reported lost near
Libya’s capital last month was in fact shot down by Russian air defenses and
it is demanding the return of the aircraft’s wreckage, US Africa Command says.
Such a shootdown would underscore Moscow’s increasingly muscular role in the
energy-rich nation, where Russian mercenaries are reportedly intervening on
behalf of east Libya-based commander Khalifa Haftar in Libya’s civil war.
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America's Missile That Uses Sword Blades Instead of Explosives Has Struck Again in Syria
It appears that the AGM-114R9X, a secret low collateral damage derivative of the
AGM-114 Hellfire missile, has been employed against occupants of another vehicle
in northwestern Syria for the second time in a week.
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Falcon 9 Cargo Mission for NASA Demonstrated Long-Duration Coast Required by US Air Force
The upper stage of the SpaceX Falcon 9 mission to the International Space
Station Dec. 5 successfully performed a six-hour coast and a deorbit burn, a
test that had been requested by the US Air Force to demonstrate the vehicle can
deliver national security payloads directly to geosynchronous Earth orbit. “I
got a thumbs up this morning,” SpaceX president and chief operating officer
Gwynne Shotwell told reporters Dec. 6 during a media roundtable at the
company’s headquarters in Hawthorne, Calif.
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Pentagon 'Start-up' Opens Its First Satellite Office
The Defense Digital Service’s first satellite office opened on Nov. 20 in
Augusta, Ga., and was named “Tatooine,” after Luke Skywalker’s home planet
in the Star Wars series. It’s located within the Georgia Cyber Center, a
building owned by the state of Georgia that fosters collaboration among
government, academia, and industry.
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Amazon’s Bezos Hits Silicon Valley for Not Working with Pentagon
His comments come as his company fights to wrest the Defense Department’s
giant cloud contract from Microsoft.
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SOCOM Wants Its Simulators to Connect to Conventional Force
Special Operations Command wants to work more closely with the conventional
force on simulation technologies, according to service officials. “As we fight
in the synthetic environment—as well as the real live battle space—we have
to be able to connect and we have to be able to discern where our issues are,”
Randy Jackson, SOCOM chief of mission preparation, said Dec. 5.
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Veterans with Veteran Health ID Card Can Shop at Military Exchange Starting Jan. 1
The Defense Department has announced expanded commissary, Military Service
Exchange, and MWR access beginning Jan. 1, 2020, and established a standard for
physical access to military installations.
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One More Thing...
End of an Era: Last Pearl Harbor Veteran Interred at USS Arizona Memorial
Lauren Bruner was struck by gunfire while trying to flee the inferno that
consumed the ship, the second-to-last man to escape the explosion that killed
1,177, including his best friend; 335 survived. Now, nearly eight decades after
that fateful day, Bruner’s ashes have been delivered to the sea that cradled
his fallen comrades, stored in an urn inside the battleship’s wreckage.
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