WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio, Sept. 14 -- The U.S. Air Force Institute of Technology issued the following news release:
Department of the Air Force Secretary Troy Meink (https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/108402/dr-troy-e-meink/) said Sept. 14 the Air Force and Space Force (https://www.spaceforce.mil/) must confront and defeat rapidly changing, AI-enabled threats while navigating a budget process built for a different pace of warfare.
The department's mission, Meink said in a closely watched keynote address at the 2026 Air and Space Cyber Conference (https://www.afa.org/air-space-cyber-conference/), is to "defend the homeland, deter all adversaries, and ... if necessary ... win in combat."
Those mandates, he...