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AF releases Air Superiority 2030 Flight Plan
By secretary of the Air Force “After 25 years of being the only great able, affordable and agile processes as well as initiatives to prototype and
power out there, we’re returning to a with increasing collaboration between experiment with a number of concepts,”
Public Affairs Command Information world of great power competition,” said science and technology, acquisition, re- Grynkewich said. “You can start build-
Lt. Gen. Mike Holmes, the Air Force quirements and industry professionals. ing and then move forward if experi-
WASHINGTON — The Air Force deputy chief of staff for strategic plans mental capabilities are determined to
released a flight plan directing develop- and requirements. “We need to develop “There’s no silver bullet,” said Col. make enough of a difference in highly
ment activity as a result of a yearlong coordinated solutions that bring air, Alexus Grynkewich, the Air Superior- contested environments of the future.”
study focused on developing capability space, cyber, the electronic environment ity 2030 ECCT lead. “We have to match
options to ensure joint force air superi- and surface capabilities together to solve tech cycles -- some of them are really In order to achieve air superiority
ority in 2030 and beyond. our problems.” long. Engines take a long time to make, in 2030 and beyond, bringing agility
but information age tech cycles are fast. to multi-domain acquisition is crucial.
According to the unclassified ver- The flight plan, put together by an Software updates are constantly mov-
sion of the Air Superiority 2030 Flight enterprise capability collaboration ing. So how do you move from pacing “We’ve talked about acquisition agil-
Plan, released May 26, the gap between team composed of Air Force opera- yourself off industrial age mindsets to ity a number of times in terms of, ‘How
the U.S. military’s air superiority ca- tors, acquirers and analysts, says that information age mindsets?” do we save money’ and not wasting
pabilities and potential adversaries’ to achieve air superiority in 2030 and taxpayer dollars is absolutely impor-
means, as it currently stands, the Air beyond, the Air Force needs to develop The answer, Grynkewich said, is tant,” Grynkewich said. “But there’s an
Force’s projected force structure in a family of capabilities that operate in parallel development of maturing tech- operational imperative that says we have
2030 may not be capable of fighting and across the air, space and cyberspace nologies for sensors, missions systems, to do this faster, and if we don’t we’re at
and winning against those adversary domains, including both stand-off and lethality and non-kinetic effects, on ap- a risk of failing as an Air Force and a
capabilities. stand-in forces. propriate time cycles, of an integrated joint force.”
and networked family of capabilities.
In order to counter emerging threats, The speed of capability development The next step is to pull technologies out Air Superiority 2030 is the first en-
air superiority must be viewed as a and fielding will be crucial to retaining of each of those parallel efforts when terprise capability collaboration team
condition the Air Force sets to enable the U.S. advantage. The service can no they are ready and developing proto- to release its flight plan. The ECCTs
joint forces to accomplish mission longer afford to develop weapon sys- types, experimenting and gaining more examine, comprehend and quantify
objectives, and not as an end in and of tems on acquisition and development knowledge to determine if the develop- operational needs, including current
itself. Providing the capabilities to do timelines using traditional approaches. ments are what’s needed in the field. and emerging capability gaps that span
this will require multi-domain solutions According to the ECCT, air superiority the Air Force enterprise. Future topics
developed through a more agile acquisi- capability development requires adapt- “What the flight plan lays out is a will likely cover other core Air Force
tion process. series of capability development needs, mission areas.
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