The Department of the Air Force Rapid Capabilities Office held a Virtual Industry Day on the Advanced Battle Management System, or ABMS, acquisition effort March 31. The event was attended by more than 600 participants from more than 300 industry partners. The ABMS acquisition effort will leverage commercial technologies, infrastructure, and data sharing Read More
Topic: Air Force
EITaaS team stands up new security operations center
A Hanscom Air Force Base IT team stood up an Enterprise IT-as-a-Service Security Operations Center in San Antonio in late February to ingest data from Buckley Garrison, Colorado, and Offutt AFB, Nebraska. Read More
Defense, industry leaders discuss digital transformation, ABMS at New Horizons
HANSCOM AIR FORCE BASE, Mass. (AFNS) -- Defense and industry leaders discussed ways their organizations are using digital transformation to meet the Air Force chief of staff's call to Accelerate Change or Lose during two days of virtual presentations March 17 and 18. Read More
Air Force acquisition executive unveils next e-Plane, publishes digital engineering guidebook
ARLINGTON, Va. (AFNS) -- In a follow-on to his Matrix-themed There is No Spoon treatise, Dr. William Roper, assistant secretary of the Air Force for acquisition, technology and logistics, released a sequel essay that establishes criteria for digitally-engineered programs, while revealing Next Generation Air Dominance has achieved e-Series status as the Read More
SecAF selects Huntsville, Alabama as preferred location to host USSPACECOM
WASHINGTON (AFNS) -- The Secretary of the Air Force, on behalf of the Office of Secretary of Defense, selected Redstone Arsenal, Huntsville, Alabama, as the preferred location for the U.S. Space Command Headquarters. Read More
Building digital literacy through Digital University
JOINT BASE LANGLEY-EUSTIS, Va. (AFNS) -- The Air Force recently launched a program called Digital University to help increase digital literacy, by providing access to free courses from Udemy, Pluralsight and Udacity to all Department of the Air Force Air and Space Professionals. Read More
AFLCMC commander speaks on the how, where of a digital force
HANSCOM AIR FORCE BASE, Mass. (AFNS) -- The new Air Force Life Cycle Management Center commander spoke to the Hanscom Air Force Base workforce about the way forward to a digital Air Force during a virtual all-call Oct. 7. Read More
U-2 Federal Lab achieves flight with Kubernetes
BEALE AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. -- The U-2 Federal Laboratory successfully leveraged Kubernetes during a local training sortie on a U-2 Dragon Lady assigned to the 9th Reconnaissance Wing at Beale Air Force Base, Sept. 22. This represents the first time Kubernetes has flown on an operational major weapon system in the Department of Defense. Read More
Air Force deploys commercial IT capability
HANSCOM AIR FORCE BASE, Mass. (AFNS) -- The Enterprise-IT-as-Service team headquartered at Hanscom Air Force Base, reached a significant milestone in information technology by allowing Airmen direct access to the enterprise edge utilizing commercial cloud environments at six Air Force installations. Read More
Air Force, Navy accelerate quantum research with international virtual event
ROME, N.Y. (AFNS) -- The Air Force Research Laboratory s Information Directorate is spearheading an international alliance of principal investigators across government, academia and industry to accelerate quantum enabling technologies. Read More