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Because cyberspace can affect core missions and capabilities, it seems obvious that the Air Force should take steps to establish an organization to address this medium. The details have been difficult to establish, however, because this medium is very different from air and space. The Air Force initially instituted a provisional major command and but has since instead replaced it with a numbered air force, the 24th Air Force, under Space Command. The authors have been involved in efforts to make the missions, tasks, and capabilities of such a command more concrete. Here, they offer observations originally intended for the major command but that apply equally well to the efforts of 24th Air Force: the needs to articulate objectives clearly; establish strategies, missions, and tasks; and develop people capable of ensuring that USAF-specific needs are met. The Air Force must also consider that cyber-related responsibilities spread across the military and other government agencies. But to expand its mission to "fly and fight in cyberspace, " the Air Force should also advance the state of the art in creating effects using cyberspace.
Information warfare --- Cyberspace --- Electronics in military engineering --- Command and control systems --- Security measures --- United States. --- United States. --- United States. --- United States. --- United States. --- Security measures. --- Organization. --- Operational readiness. --- Decision making. --- Weapons systems.
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The 2010 theater air defense (TAD) vision outlined in this briefing is rooted in operational issues. Operations are likely to be joint, with U.S. forces operating under the command of a joint force commander. Basic TAD tasks will not change dramatically. Mutually supporting tasks of attack on fixed targets, attack on short-dwell-time mobile targets, active defense against manned aircraft and air-breathing and ballistic missiles, and passive defense will be retained. However, the relative importance of the tasks may change, as well as the way forces perform key functions to accomplish these tasks. The emphasis is on real-time operations and command and control, rather than on planning, and centers on offensive operations (pre-launch and post-launch attacks) and on defensive operations (intercept of ballistic and air-breathing threats). Fusion and allocation will become critical, as will combat identification and dissemination. The authors visualize a centralized joint fusion center for offensive operations, a real-time fused air picture accessible to all force elements, and truly integrated joint air and missile defense operations.
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Since the end of the Cold War, the United States has been re-examining its basic assumptions about foreign policy and instruments of national security polcy. This study examines the possible roles of nuclear weapons in contemporary US national security policy.
Nuclear weapons. --- Nuclear weapons - United States. --- Strategic forces. --- Strategic forces - United States. --- United States - Military policy. --- Strategic forces --- Nuclear weapons --- United States --- Military policy.
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The National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA's) wind tunnel and propulsion test facilities continue to be important to U.S. competitiveness across the military, commercial, and space sectors. Unfortunately, management issues are creating real risks to these facilities.
Aeronautics -- Research -- United States. --- Airplanes -- Jet propulsion -- Research -- United States. --- Airplanes -- United States -- Testing. --- Needs assessment -- United States. --- United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration -- Research. --- Wind tunnels. --- Wind tunnels --- Aeronautics --- Airplanes --- Needs assessment --- Research --- Testing --- Jet propulsion --- United States. --- Evaluation.
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The effectiveness of attacks on time critical targets (suppression of enemy air defenses, interdiction, and anti-theater ballistic missile missions) often depends on decisions made by the adversary. Game theory is a way to study likely changes in enemy behavior resulting from various attack capabilities and goals.
Air defenses. --- Air defenses --- Command and control systems --- Special operations (Military science) --- War games --- Simulation methods. --- Evaluation --- Planning
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Calculating the utility of attacks against ballistic missile transporter-erector-launchers (TELs) associated with the proliferation of theater ballistic missiles (TBMs) can play a role in sharply reducing the prospective threat size. For initial inventories of, say, 10 TBMs per TEL, reductions of some 80 percent in missiles launched are possible with probabilities of successful postlaunch TEL kill of about 0.5. Combined prelaunch and postlaunch attacks against TELs act synergistically, enhancing the overall effectiveness. A set of equations (and their derivations) is provided to allow the reader to calculate additional outcomes.
Ballistic missile defenses --- Combat survivability --- Statistical methods.
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This report addresses the post-Cold War use of traditional U.S. strategic nuclear forces (nuclear-armed long-range bombers, ICBMs, and submarine-launched ballistic missiles) from three perspectives: top-down (strategies to tasks), bottom-up (technological opportunities--today and tomorrow), and policy (how policy can affect R & D, acquisition, and counterproliferation strategy alternatives). The problem then is to converge on technological initiatives from a strategic and policy perspective, including directions for future work. The authors examine the potential contribution of advanced technology for U.S. long-range strategic nuclear forces that may have counterproliferation missions as well as traditional ones.
Strategic forces --- National security --- Military research --- World politics --- United States --- Armed Forces --- Procurement.
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"The U.S. Air Force leadership plans in the near term to identify and implement a range of initiatives for enhancing the service's contributions to irregular warfare (IW) operations and to meet DoD guidance that directs its components to "recognize that IW is as strategically important as traditional warfare." This monograph is the result of a "quick-turn" study to provide the leadership with a menu of actions it could consider both in the very near term and over an extended period to strengthen and expand the Air Force's capabilities to take part in joint and interagency efforts in irregular warfare. Rather than developing detailed endpoints for Air Force capabilities or structure in the future--e.g., what the USAF could look like in, say, 2015--the authors propose solution vectors that could enable the Air Force to move out quickly while continuing to consider responses to emerging demands in a dynamic IW environment."--Rand web site.
Irregular warfare --- Unified operations (Military science) --- United States. --- Operational readiness.
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